Saree Makdisi calls the media to task for its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and especially Netanyahu’s speech last weekend. From his oped in today’s Los Angeles Times “The language that absolves Israel”: Similarly, Israeli housing units built in the…
Ira Glunts writes: President Obama’s popularity, though never high among Israelis, has tanked following the US administration’s recent confrontation with Prime Minister Netanyahu over settlement expansion. According to a recent poll sponsored by the Jerusalem Post only 6% of Israelis…
Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews said of Netanyahu, “Round one to Obama.” The shrewd Matthews was saying that Obama took Netanyahu to the cleaner’s when he came to D.C. last month. But also suggesting that Netanyahu regained momentum in the…
Gershom Gorenberg in Foreign Policy: “The classic definition of chutzpah is murdering your parents and begging for the mercy of the court because you’re an orphan. Adding thousands of settlers to existing communities so that later you can claim that…
Ira Glunts writes: Back in February, in this space, I criticized Americans for Peace Now (APN) for initiating an email campaign profusely praising the “courageous statements” on the settlements made by Rep. Gary Ackerman during a House Foreign Affairs Committee…
Bruce Wolman writes: The indefatigable Helena Cobban has an important posting on her ‘Just World News’ web site this morning. She picks up on a report from Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston yesterday headlined, “Loving Israel by hating Obama” that says that…
Bruce Wolman writes: When Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington last month, Israeli media reported he was quite shocked at the reception he received in his closed-door meetings with Congress. It appeared the Obama administration had lined up fellow Democrats to…
Jeremy Harding, a writer for the London Review of Books, lately returned to Europe from the West Bank and had this report: A group of writers based in Britain and North America, guests of the Palestine Festival of Literature, were…
As if the Israeli settler movement couldn’t alienate themselves any further from US popular opinion, they are now kicking off a campaign against “the most anti-Semitic American president” Barack Obama. The Ha’aretz article reporting on the effort shares some pretty…