In rereading Norman Finkelstein’s book, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, I noticed that in the furor that occured in the mid-80s over the false issue of Whether there were even Palestinians in Palestine when Israel was born, an…
I don’t think I got it right about what is happening in Australia; I’m going to take another crack at it. And I thank the commenters who corrected me. Last Wednesday, a group called Al-Nakba ran a large newspaper ad…
David Bromwich, a prof at Yale, is an important voice on the left. Last year he had what I believe is the only reasonable response to Walt and Mearsheimer–impressed by the scope of their work, disturbed by their findings–and said…
It was exciting to hear Obama’s pastor, the fiery and bookish Jeremiah Wright, denouncing state-sponsored terrorism against the Palestinians on national television. You don’t hear this kind of statement in the mainstream! And the same day appears Janny Scott’s fabulous…
I’m trying to have more dialogues with Richard Witty because he’s a smart guy who disagrees with me, also I’m grateful that he’s come to this site overcoming his objection to a lot of stuff said here. (On a personal…
Richard Witty and I have been emailing one another about the Israel lobby definition issue; and I will post that exchange soon. But this a.m. he jumps the gun and asks me a bunch of very socratic questions. As if…
The other day Dan Fleshler took me to task me for my sarcastic refrain, “There is no Israel lobby.” He called it a “glib distraction.” He said everyone acknowledges there is an Israel lobby, the real question is how much…
According to the AIPAC website, tomorrow in New York, Peter Beinart, a columnist for Time and the Washington Post and a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be giving a “briefing” to “discuss Jewish involvement in American politics….
Here’s a news account that Obama called Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni while she was visiting the U.S. to offer his condolences on the latest Israeli victims of terror and make the right noises about a non-nuclear Iran and Israel’s…