Helena Cobban has published an amazing report on an interview she did with smiling senior Likud security-affairs specialist Efraim Inbar, who surely has Netanyahu’s ear. Somewhat shocking. A lot of racism dignified as the “Zionist ethos.” Incredible arrogance, which I…
In Israel, Hillary Clinton said that Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in Jerusalem is “unhelpful.” Wow. Step out, lady! How long will it take for her to condemn the confiscation of Palestinian lands, the colonies, Jim Crow laws, and the…
Today Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, has an article in the Huffington Post that could have been ripped from the pages of Mondoweiss. In his post “Avigdor Lieberman’s Makeover Won’t Work” Ben-Ami addresses the wedge that Avigdor Lieberman…
Hillary Clinton and Shimon Peres in Jerusalem today; Photo by Menahem Kahana for AFP. Anees of Jerusalem writes: Did you see TV footage of Clinton’s visit? I saw two quick clips. One in which, in a press conference type setting,…
Hillary Clinton just landed in Israel and the Israeli press is already pessimistic about what she’ll think about the state of Israeli politics. From the YNet article “Official: Rightist government may hurt US-Israel relations”: “Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s views on…
Here’s Rbguy at Daily Kos urging people to weigh in with their congresspeople to back a more evenhanded policy in the Middle East and noting that SOS Clinton’s efforts are being supported by a wide-ranging set of Muslim, Christian and…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s possible coalition partners say the darnedest things. Although Avigdor Lieberman is getting most of the attention, there are other parties being courted that have equally disturbing things to say. In response to Peace Now revealing that the Israeli…
A friend writes: Have you pondered the fact that we brutalize the Gazans because Hamas refuses to accept the notion that the Jews deserve a state of their own, yet we now have an Israeli government that denies that the…
More about Paul Berman, whose lofty interview about Gaza on the American Jewish Committee site, Z-word, is under my skin. Berman says: As for the anti-Zionist left in America: The Nation magazine, the Answer movement, the professors who want to…