Jack Ross reports: He takes on the Israel Lobby both in his opening segment and in his interview with David Gregory. Best moment is his response to Bloomberg visit to Israel in the opening segment. We’ll get to it Jack….
David Remnick doesn’t seem entirely sure how to address the horrifying news from Gaza. He has a long piece about Obama, including an intelligent reverie on the spiritual question of homeland, that sweeps the slaughter under the rug. Blames the…
I need to file this datum before it leaves my gray matter for the shores of Tripoli. The other day on Hardball, they were talking about the biggest general election moments, and Howard Fineman of Newsweek said the biggest moment…
On Thursday at the University of Chicago, Norman Finkelstein, John Mearsheimer, and Ali Abunimah will talk about Gaza. What is remarkable about this is only that a realist, a Chomskyan and an Arab binational-state guy will be offering a range…
Dan Drezner is the worst of the fresh-faces-for-a-fresh zeitgeist Foreign Policy bloggers. I believe he supported the Iraq war, and is an apologist for the Bush Administration. But he’s on the wagon when it comes to the good demon alcohol…
Amazing. Israeli human rights groups have started a blog to document the harm to civilians in Gaza and southern Israel. The group includes Rabbis for Human Rights and Adalah, an Arab group. Most of the items are of course about…
The Jewish Community Relations Bureau/American Jewish Committee in Kansas City has organized an emergency meeting tomorrow night.The appeal begins on a defensive note: Due to the escalation of Israelâs efforts to reduce the Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, there will…
Now the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Ami Eden is attacking J Street for having the temerity to suggest that the Israeli attack on Gaza lacked “sanity and moderation” and other supposed crimes. This is a historical battle. Once again, Jewish leadership…
Americans for Peace Now is for a cease-fire, good for them, but it is making the wrong call in its Gaza statements. It turns over part of its site to Yossi Alpher, an Israeli security expert, who rationalizes everything Israel…