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On the neo-con Iran-war front, Marc Lynch notes the intensifying neo-conservative campaign for attacking Iran, led this week by Reuel Marc Gerecht’s cover story in the Weekly Standard. (I wrote an article along similar lines ten days ago for IPS.)
The only piece he doesn’t mention is one published Monday on the op-ed page of the [...]
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No real surprise here, but it’s worth noting that the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), which we’ve been covering pretty intensively over the last week, appears to be using, at least for now, the same lobbying firm as SarahPAC, Sarah Palin’s increasingly bountiful political action committee.
Quoting SarahPac’s quarterly disclosures, this weekend’s edition of the Wall [...]
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Liel Leibovitz and Gideon Levy have the rundown on a just-publicized tape of Benjamin Netanyahu from 2001. Addressing an audience at the West Bank settlement of Ofra without realizing that the cameras are running, Netanyahu claims that he has “de facto put an end to the Oslo accords” and boasts of his ability to manipulate [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Gideon Levy, Israel/Palestine, Liel Leibovitz, Oslo Accords
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With Jim Lobe
Some things are just too good to be true.
It seems that the new Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) is based out of the same office as the old Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), suggesting that, Yes, Virginia, the same people who led the march to war in Iraq are behind [...]
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The Emergency Committee For Israel sure knows how to pick board members.
I don’t have much to add to Daniel’s brilliant take on Rachel Podhoretz Decter Abrams’ “gay problem” but after reading her attempt at witty poetry I’d conclude that her problems might not be limited to an irrational hatred of gay people.
On May 7th, Abrams blogged:
Lion of the [...]
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Eli and Ali have been doing great reporting on the Emergency Committee for Israel, the new Likudnik group that has formed to attack Democrats on Israel. Many of the group’s principals will be familiar — Bill Kristol, of course, needs no introduction, while Gary Bauer is a well-known Christian Zionist who believes, as Matt Duss [...]
Tags: Elliott Abrams, Emergency Comittee for Israel, Gary Bauer, human rights, israel, Midge Decter, neoconservatism, Noah Pollak, Norman Podhoretz, Palestine, Peter Beinart, Rachel Abrams, William Kristol
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With Ali Gharib
As if on cue, the group I blogged about yesterday — the Emergency Committee For Israel — launched its website on Monday with an announcement on the Weekly Standard’s blog. The roll-out centered on what has become the mandatory 30-second commercial blasting a politician that neocons deem insufficiently “pro-Israel.”
The TV spot, which the [...]
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No sooner did I write about the growth industry in astroturf groups promoting a U.S. or Israeli military attack on Iran than a new one sprung up on CNN. Surprisingly, the partisan connections behind this group are so thinly veiled that a two-minute examination of their domain name registration uncovered ties to the Republican Party [...]
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What Success Would Mean in Afghanistan
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Okay, it hasn’t happened yet — and the odds are it never will. But for a moment, just imagine stories like that leading the news nationwide as our most political general in generations comes home to a grateful Washington.
By all accounts, the [...]
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We here at LobeLog have made no secret of our distaste for the views of Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer and the Fox News producers who give these individuals access to the airwaves on an all-too-frequent basis. But Jon Stewart took on all of them and thoroughly dissected and debunked their islamophobic bigotry in [...]
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