The New York Times underplays Paul Singer’s commitment to rightwing pro-Israel groups in coverage of Singer’s endorsement of the neoconservative favorite, FL Senator Marco Rubio
A day after he gets the Kristol prize at the neocon thinktank American Enterprise Institute on November 9, Israeli PM Netanyahu is to get welcomed at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party thinktank with close connections to Hillary Clinton. He’s back in the saddle again!
In signs of the end of US consensus on Israel, longtime Israel lobbyist Steve Gutow says Israeli journalists have no compassion for Palestinians and Dexter Filkins trashes Dennis Ross in the New Yorker as indifferent to justice and only caring whether a president is a “friend of Israel.”
Yousef Munayyer says the Palestinian rebellion could hurt international solidarity efforts if it is not channeled into the non-violent BDS movement that has transformed global opinion. While Max Blumenthal says the violence suggests an Algeria outcome in Israel and Palestine rather than a South Africa ending.
Times change: A day after the formerly neoconservative Washington Post ran an article calling for boycott and sanctions against Israel written by two prestigious Jewish scholars, it runs a piece by novelist Assaf Gavron saying Israel has become a savage rightwing society and it must end the occupation to save itself.
Greenburgh Town Supervisor says he wanted to be a rabbi, and he supports Israel, after rightwing fanatics denounce as “evil” an event at town hall that merely called for equal rights for Jews and Palestinians
As Marco Rubio assiduously plies rightwing pro-Israel donors in NY, his big goal is Sheldon Adelson. Rubio promises to reverse the Iran deal, which should be music to Adelson’s ears.
Sheldon Adelson, who wants to nuke Iran, is reportedly close to endorsing Marco Rubio for president. And Donald Trump warns that Adelson will make Rubio his “perfect little puppet”
Hillary Clinton doesn’t notice any Palestinian victims of attack in a statement saying the “recent wave of attacks against Israelis” is wrong and must stop. If you want to understand why American politics is busted, and how far we have to go in changing the discourse, you need only read that statement.
Marco Rubio courted Sheldon Adelson in Las Vegas last week, is routinely praised by Bill Kristol, and gave his campaign the same title as a disastrous neoconservative project. Who’s he auditioning for? The pro-Israel lobby.