israelmatzav.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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There's a great poll out on American attitudes about Israel and the 'Palestinians' and it might give the Obama White House some pause about pushing Israel to endanger its security. Only 19 percent of Americans think "making peace between Israel and the Palestinians" should be among ...
Invoking the Holocaust to Defend the Occuption
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/11/2008 —
For American readers, the great virtue of Avraham Burg's important new book is that he says things about Israel and the Jewish people that are hardly ever heard in mainstream discourse in the United States. It is hard to believe how stunted and ...
Fitzgerald: The jihad against Israel
jihadwatch.org 12/15/2008 — The war against Israel waged by Muslim Arabs and other Muslims who follow the Arab lead is merely a classic Jihad. After the Six-Day War, the Arabs made every effort, because they realized that a military "solution" was not at hand. They realized ...
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/5/2009 — I'm immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard and a student at Yale Law ...
Obama Demand: The Israeli Occupation Must End
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/14/2008 — It is becoming clear that Barack Obama understands that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the heart of virtually all of America's problems in the Middle East.
He also understands that, paradoxically, it is the Middle East problem most ...
My? Israel
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/9/2009 — My? Israel As some of you know my wife and I have been seriously considering aliyah. We spent several weeks in November in Israel exploring some of the details involved in such a move. We were somewhat optimistic at...
U.S. Nuclear Guarantee To Israel Makes No Sense
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 12/4/2008 — Our guest blogger is Peter Juul , a research associate at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
In a recent Brookings Institution report on Middle East strategy for the new administration, editors Richard Haass and Martin Indyk propose ...
Enough Stupid Arguments About Israel
balloon-juice.com 12/31/2008 — Often simply naming something makes it easier to see and understand the next time. Take the argument that pressing crisis X demands some sort of immediate response is sufficient by itself to endorse reaction Y. This is plainly ridiculous. The ways ...
Israel Alone
pajamasmedia.com 1/5/2009 — I am writing this moments after the announcement of the Israel Defense Force that they have invaded Gaza . The first thing that struck me is that, for now at least, it is not Mark Steyn’s prescient America Alone . It is Israel Alone!
Not ...
Why I Am a Democrat
njdc.org 2/17/2009 — I am pro-Israel. I am a Zionist. I have been a member of AIPAC for virtually my entire adult life. I am a Democrat. And I’m in good company. Of the 32 Jews in the House of Representatives, only one is a Republican, and of the 13 Jews in the Senate, only one is a Republican . Barack Obama ...
Yet another rocket hits Israel
yourish.com 11/21/2008 — Three more rockets hit two more areas in Israel. The rockets have been falling every day (the AP is for some reason saying “near-daily rocket attacks”), and we have yet to hear a peep out of the crowd of Israel-bashers about Hamas stopping the rocket fire. Except, of course, for the ...
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