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In a June 14th editorial in The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol called on Congress to defend Israel against its critics, both foreign and domestic.
Kristol and the Israel lobby’s pleas for Congress to close ranks around Israel after the IDF’s bloody attack on the Free Gaza flotilla bore fruit.
MJ Rosenberg at Media Matters has written an [...]
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Tom Friedman is traveling again. This time he’s in Turkey, checking in to tell us that Turkey’s withdrawal from the Western orbit is all Turkey’s fault. His tack comes as no surprise to those keeping track of the neocons and their Lobby-friendly allies‘ attacks on Turkey since the Gaza War of ‘08-’09 and, more recently, [...]
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The results of a recent B’nai B’rith poll (PDF) suggest that, despite the best efforts of the poll’s organizers to throw the results with leading questions, Israelis are of far more than just one mind on how diaspora Jews should lobby foreign governments.
Their press release reads:
Jewish Organizations Need To Support Israeli Government Policies According To [...]
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Giles Scott Smith at The Holland Bureau has written an informative piece about the ties between Islamophobic Dutch politician Geert Wilders—the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV)—and the American Israel lobby.
Smith explores the ties between Wilders and various U.S.-based neoconservatives and Islamophobes — with a particular emphasis on how Wilders draws on U.S. groups [...]
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Consider today’s post my way of launching my new book,The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, which will officially be out later this week. Of it, Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power and the upcoming Washington Rules, says: “Tom Engelhardt is [...]
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Bret Stephens, the neoconservative foreign policy editor for the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, proclaims in his column today that “the Iranian Green Movement is dead”. The column is a revealing one, although not for the actual argument, which is shoddy even by Stephens’s standards. (He predictably places all blame on Obama for the Green [...]
Tags: Akbar Ganji, Bret Stephens, Green Movement, iran, israel, Jackson Diehl, neoconservatives, Wall Street Journal
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Victor Davis Hanson: With Obama and his moral equivalence, Israel is hardly any better than Hamas or Hezbollah or the Palestinian Authority. I wonder, though, if they really believe that.
What if a Jew says he wants to live in Ramallah because it’s a nice place? Arabs live in Nazareth and other places in Israel, [...]
Tags: israel, Michael Totten, Palestine, right of return, settlements, Victor Davis Hanson
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This is a guest post by Serkan Zorba, an assistant professor of physics at Whittier College in California. A Turkish native of Kurdish ancestry, Dr. Zorba has been involved in interfaith efforts since 9/11. His contribution has been inspired by recent events surrounding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, including the attacks by neo-conservatives on Turkish Prime [...]
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Iran’s Green Movement: One Year Later
How Israel’s Gaza Blockade and Washington’s Sanctions Policy Helped Keep the Hardliners in Power
By Juan Cole
Iran’s Green Movement is one year old this Sunday, the anniversary of its first massive demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. Greeted with [...]
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You gotta hand it to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the IDF for their well coordinated PR campaigns — they really know how to read a U.S. calendar!
The findings of Israel’s internal inquiry of the Free Gaza Flotilla incident will be released right as Americans across the country will all be sidling up [...]
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