I’m still a little stunned from hearing Israeli Ambassador Gillerman’s “bigot” comments about former President Carter yesterday. Such chutzpah, and condescension. And keep in mind that he didn’t do this at the U.N. or the Israeli consulate. No, he was…
In this wonderful interview on Znet, Norman Finkelstein says that his next book will be called, A Farewell to Israel: The Coming Breakup of American Zionism. Finkelstein is a brilliant historian, and has led the process that he describes: I…
In his speech today at the Israel Project, Ambassador Dan Gillerman said that Jimmy Carter was a “bigot” who had gone to the Middle East with “soiled hands and came back with bloody hands,” because he had shaken hands with…
Israel is a “far better” country than most others, Dan Gillerman, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., said today in a speech to journalists gathered by the Israel Project to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday. Gillerman spoke in a 38th floor…
The Israel Project is dedicated to telling Americans all the good news about Israel. Today it handed out a thick booklet called “Israel at 60” to journalists. The booklet contains one section of quotes from Israeli P.M. Ehud Olmert and…
How regrettable that Hillary has threatened, on Good Morning America, to “obliterate” Iran if it attacks Israel… How lamentable that the comment draws criticism from around the world, including a British foreign minister, but no one here bats an eye……
The one good thing about the nest of vipers–sorry, I mean the neoconservatives–is that their plans for Iraq and the Middle East gained blanket acceptance in the Establishment and then were emphatically discredited. Thus the neocons have served as the…
Joel Kovel is an old lefty–or anyway, he was wearing a green corduroy jacket at the Brecht Forum last night– and he insists on a central argument of this blog: that the neocons pushed the Iraq war out of a…
Last night at the Brecht Forum, I heard Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, and this morning I need to shout that There is light coming into Americans’ lives on this issue. Everything I’ve said on this blog, about “The…