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Tom Friedman is an easy target these days. His nonsense prose (“a genius of literary incompetence”), his wanton calls for “civil war” in the Muslim world, his endorsement of collective punishment in Lebanon ‘06 and in Gaza, and so on and so on, ad nauseum.
And all this before he admits to doing drugs: “I’ve been [...]
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Lenny Ben-David has made no secret of his disdain for J Street, but his most recent blog post lays bare the racist worldview which seem to drive his crusade to smear any and all who cross Israeli government policy on Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem or Lebanon.
Today, Ben-David has worked himself into a frenzy [...]
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Nir Rosen holds forth from Afghanistan’s recently-escalated Helmand Province in his latest for Mother Jones. Along with Rosen’s characteristically illuminating anecdotes from the front lines (like encountering a group of doped-up Afghan National Police), we also get some sobering analysis. It turns out that counterinsurgency — supposedly at the center of this latest “surge” — [...]
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For those who have not yet read it, Bob Dreyfuss’ skewering of the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Rubin and his long-running love affair with Ahmad Chalabi earlier this week is well worth the time, particularly in light of Chalabi’s reported responsibility for the ongoing political crisis in Iraq over the fate of the 500-some [...]
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While I’m in the follow-up mood, I’ve got a thing or two to say about Leon Wieseltier, the longtime literary editor of The New Republic.
Daniel had this incisive post about Wieseltier and his accusation of anti-Semitism against Andrew Sullivan, and the larger effects of these sort of wanton attacks on even the most reasoned of [...]
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By way of a follow up on Marsha’s post, I thought I’d expand on some tidbits of coverage as former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin teeters between Tea Bagger and neocon patsy — and what it might mean for the newly-invigorated Republican Party’s foreign policy.
The article on Palin in Saturday’s New York Times caught my [...]
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It seems that everybody is talking about Leon Wieseltier’s long screed against Andrew Sullivan, in which the New Republic literary editor insinuates at great length that his former colleague is an anti-Semite, while — in cowardly fashion — attempting to maintain deniability by refusing to make the allegation explicit. Any number of commentators from across [...]
Tags: Andrew Sullivan, anti-semitism, Chas Freeman, Glenn Greenwald, israel, Israel lobby, Leon Wieseltier, Mearsheimer and Walt
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In a Fox News interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday, political aspirant and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin confused and conflated the neocon “bomb, bomb Iran” message of Daniel Pipes, founder and Director of the right-wing neoconservative Middle East Forum with the views of conservative MSNBC news commentator and Townhall.com blogger Pat Buchanan.
Tags: Daniel Pipes, iran, Pat Buchanan, Sarah Palin
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As Daniel just wrote, the sensational campaign by Im Tirtzu to discredit the New Israel Fund (NIF) and the Israeli human rights groups that it supports has received increasing attention from both US and Israeli media in recent days.
We’ve been looking at some of the publicly available documents about the Central Fund of Israel (CFI), [...]
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