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While American Jewry Sleeps, Leading Israeli Calls for Sanctions and Denounces 'Lobby' Here
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 20, 2008
Amazing news from Israel. Richard Silverstein passes on the information that the novelist A.B. Yehoshua has called on the Bush Administration to remove our ambassador till the Israeli
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Are Leftleaning American Jews in Denial About the Zionist Dream's Tailspin?
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 21, 2008
One of the most important reporters on neoconservatism, Jim Lobe of IPS, has an item on Freedom's Watch in which he notes the mainstream press's lazy and fearful shorthand re neoconservatism--"strong supporters of Israel." Why don't those reporters spell out the neocon agenda re Israel, so we can understand the motivatio
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What Does 'Pushback' Mean? An Email from Dersh
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 22, 2008
Some time back I reported that Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Colin Powell, said at the Middle East Institute (responding to Jim Lobe actually) that Walt and Mearsheimer's paper contained the "blinding flash of the obvious," and that he had taught their ideas in his seminars and gotten "pushback" for doing so. This was back in '06, when Walt and Mearsheimer were...
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The 'Times' Takes a Healthy Lesson From the Blogosphere
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 27, 2008
I loved the Times editorial Friday that endorsed McCain and slagged Giuliani: The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know andmistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw noneed to limit police power.... Mr. Giuliani’sarrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking.... The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turnedthe horror of 9/11 into a lucrative...
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Hafez Begat Bashir. Hosni Begat Gamal. Saddam Begat Qusay. And Norman Begat JPod
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 29, 2008
One of the best things in Jacob Heilbrunn's new book, They Knew They Were Right, is his analysis of the children of the neocons. Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz had struggled to attain prominence. They had varied careers, generally on the outside of mainstream culture, wearing moth-eaten tweeds, and never thought they'd achieve political power, as they did beginning in the 70s....
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When It Comes to Israel, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Plays Hide the Salami
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 31, 2008
One of the best lines in Jacob Heilbrunn's book on the neocons, They Knew They Were Right, is that having been excluded by the old WASP establishment, young Jewish rightwing intellectuals of the 50s-70s burned with outsider resentment. And in the end, when they gained influence (in the administrations of Reagan, Clinton and GWBush) they created a "parallel establishment" in...
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An Israeli Reporter Prods Condoleezza Rice to Do Something About Illegal Settlements
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on February 01, 2008
Speaking of how our Israel policy is made, here is an excerpt from an interview by an Israeli TV reporter of Sec'y of State Condoleezza Rice two weeks ago. What is remarkable in this interview is that Gil Tamary, the Israeli reporter, is pushing the American secretary of state to do more to stop the settlements: QUESTION: More than amonth has passed since the Annapolis summit and many people...
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Neocon Thinktank, and Bill Kristol, Share Close Connection to Settlements in Occupied Territories
via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on January 31, 2008
A reader has pointed out to me that the neoconservative thinktank I wrote about last night, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is intimately connected to the illegal colonization of the West Bank. As I reported, Tony Gelbart--the board member listed in FDD's 2005 report who is not listed on the website--is co-founder of Nefesh b'nefesh, whose mission is revitalize Zionism in the...
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