Jerusalem Post neo-con columnist Caroline Glick, in a piece titled, “Surviving in a post-American world“, is forced to consider the Jewish state without Washington’s 110% backing (though I think she’s seriously exaggerating the chances of Obama hanging Israel out to dry): …If Obama’s assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state,…
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Yes, the occupation matters, neo-cons
A senior former official in the Bush administrations writes in the Washington Post that Israel’s settlement project in the West Bank isn’t an impediment to peace and Obama shouldn’t pressure the Jewish state to stop it. And pigs might fly.
Talking is easy but action is far harder
Yoel Marcus in Haaretz thinks the new Israeli government has a problem on its hands: These days, when Obama has a majority in Congress and the world’s eyes are on him, we cannot pressure him using our power hubs in Washington. The Jewish lobby has lost much of its strength in the current administration. And…
We’re waiting for Jews to assert themselves
The New York Times magazine published an essay yesterday by Zev Chafets on Obama’s Rabbi: Rabbi Capers Funnye celebrated Martin Luther King Day this year in New York City at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a mainstream Reform congregation, in the company of about 700 fellow Jews — many of them black. The organizers of…
Will Jews raise their voices finally?
The recent J Street survey on American Jews shows a fairly conservative but not neo-conservative worldview. Two-states. More US pressure on both sides. Blah blah blah. Talk is cheap. But Realistic Dove blog has more: But the new J Street survey shows something new, something different, something that has gotten no attention: there is a…
Those Ayrabs hate us, all of them
Progressive Zionist lobbyists J Street released a study of American Jews recently that found many were less hawkish than the neo-con “mainstream”. But according to a person commenting on hardline Zionist Shmuel Rosner’s blog, at the Jerusalem Post, we should be careful: JStreet is the CIA’s front organization, the purpose of which is to diminish…
When sympathy is the wrong emotion
Jerusalem Post correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh – a man who says what the neo-cons want to hear – feels sorry for the poor Jewish state: What is happening on the U.S. campuses is not about supporting the Palestinians as much as it is about promoting hatred for the Jewish state. It is not really about…
Jews who crave torture
Chuck Schumer, The Democratic Senator, was a key supporter of even the most radical Bush appointees, and then led the way in sinking an Obama appointee who made “statements against Israel.” Salon’s Glenn Greenwald examines the ways in which Democrats are often equally blinded by their Israel love as Republican opponents (and the blogger kindly…
Stay home Hillary, if that’s all you got
My latest New Matilda column is about the Obama administration’s first foray into the Middle East: On Palestine it’s hard to tell the difference between Obama and Bush. But while the US and Israel block progress, there are small signs of movement, writes Antony Loewenstein The number of people who believe in the two-state solution…
Talk to anyone you can
Just what is a neo-conservative Palestinian journalist to do when asked how to resolve the Israel/Palestine conflict?