November 26, 2008
The N.Y. Times reports that Hillary Clinton has accepted Barack Obama’s invitation to be his secretary of state. This development will no doubt rankle some on the left who campaigned hard for Obama’s election. I’m concerned too. I wonder which Hillary will be secretary of stat...
go to article »November 25, 2008
Byrd's Chekhovian Resolution: can dance capture the blood, pain and suffering of this conflict? (Mike Urban/Seattle PI) Last Saturday, I attended an amazing artistic event. Donald Byrd’s contemporary dance group, Spectrum Dance Theater, performed his political-artistic meditation on the Isra...
go to article »November 18, 2008
Haaretz revealed yesterday that a U.S. website uncovered the identity of a hitherto secret senior Shin Bet operative. Thanks to Sol Salbe, we’ve ascertained that the Aipac-oriented think tank, WINEP, published a piece by Yoram Cohen about Hamas. WINEP even reveals Cohen’s Shin Bet af...
go to article »November 17, 2008
Bibi Barack ripoff Barack Obama established that he has political coattails that helped Democrats get elected to Congress this year. But do his coattails extend as far as Israel? And will they help a right-wing Israeli nationalist war horse get elected? That’s what Bibi Netanyahu’s...
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If you remember back a year or two when people first started talking about a new Jewish peace lobby (and I started writing about it way back when), there was lots of skepticism even among the Jewish left that such a thing could work. Where would the money come from? George Soros was included in ...
go to article »November 16, 2008
Rahm Emanuel has done the decent thing in apologizing for his father’s insulting comment in which he noted that his son would, of course, ensure the White House was “pro-Israel” because he certainly was no Arab whose job it would be to clean White House floors: “Today, Rep. Emanu...
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Both Aipac and the National Jewish Democratic Council are known for their highly partisan pro-Israel tours of Israel hosted for Congress members. They’re basically political junkets touting a hardline perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Aipac subsidizes the tours to the tune o...
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This blog thrives on ferreting out the unexamined assumptions of Israel’s uncritical supporters. One of them is The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg. Israel Policy Forum just e-mailed me a panel discussion he conducted with Israel’s former New York consul general, Alon Pinkas. The...
go to article »November 15, 2008
Last night, I noted that left bloggers like Ali Abunimah were looking to Rahm Emanuel’s ascendancy like Vatican observers searching for the wisp of smoke from St. Peter’s chimney telling the faithful a new pope has been chosen. Of course, they view Emanuel as a pro-Israel front for Aipac...
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How do you spell c-h-u-t-z-p-a-h? “Chutzpah” simply doesn’t begin to do justice to the Clarion Fund’s latest press release congratulating Barack Obama on his election victory. Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing me to this worthless piece of dreck. If it isn’...
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