January 13, 2009
ABC This Week featured one of Barack Obama’s first major news interviews in weeks. He covered some new ground on Iran and gave some disappointing answers on issues like Gaza. For some reason, Obama feels empowered to strike out on his own in announcing a decisive break from Bush policy tow...
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David Sanger published a major piece on how the U.S. related to Israel in its dealings with Iran’s nuclear program. Though the reporter heralds it as a major piece of investigative journalism that spanned 15 months of reporting, much of the information has already been reported elsewhere (th...
go to article »December 14, 2008
The Forward notes in an article today that the largest U.S. Jewish umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents, refused to support the government’s eviction of extremist settlers from Hebron’s House of Contention. The Conference also tellingly refused to condemn the subsequent settler...
go to article »December 9, 2008
Cheryl Halpern, Jewish neocon to the UN, Bushs' gift to Susan Rice? I sometimes find JTA the source of unintentional humor, sometimes of a slightly dark and clammy variety. A perfect example is this item noting that George Bush has appointed one of his most loyal Jewish neocon supporters to a ...
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Seems to me that Rick Warren, one of the most popular Christian evangelical pastors in the nation, has some splainin’ to do to the Muslim bruthas when he speaks at the Muslim Public Affairs Council national convention in two weeks. You see, Brother Rick engaged in a surreal interview with Br...
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The conclusion of the line in the song’s lyric is “What it is ain’t exactly clear.” That pretty much sizes up what Barack Obama has in mind for his first 100 days regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Something’s happening. We don’t know exactly what i...
go to article »December 4, 2008
Rabbi Gabriel and Rivka Holtzberg zichronam l'vracha The news is as I feared. After finally clearing Mumbai’s Chabad House of terrorists, Indian commandos discovered that six hostages had been killed, among them Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka. Haaretz reports that the other...
go to article »November 28, 2008
Seth Hettena has done some interesting research into Clarion Fund’s 990 report. He’s discovered that a number of the group’s board members have longstanding and deep ties in partisan Republican circles: Peter Feaman, a Florida trial lawyer. He’s also the author of Wake Up Ameri...
go to article »November 26, 2008
I wish I could remember where I first read this critique of State Department personnel decisions regarding the Middle East. In past administrations, you could find many Jews dealing with Israeli-Arab affairs: Aaron David Miller, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Richard Haas, Dan Kurtzer, Sam Lewis, etc....
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The accompanying B’Tselem video should make your stomach turn and call to mind what a Kristallnacht perpetrated by Jews might resemble. These are citizens of the State of Israel who treat its authorities with utter contempt, not to mention shower them with violence: Settler desecration of H...
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