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Over the past few weeks, the Obama Administration has been engaged in truly shocking behavior. It is letting Israel know when the U.S. disapproves of its actions, and appointing people to the government who have not been slavish devotees of the right-wing Likud line in the past. George W. Bush ...
On the Analytical Abilities of Chas Freeman
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com — When the great David Rothkopf comes to Chas Freeman's defense, I pay attention. Writing on his Foreign... Policy blog , Rothkopf argues that Freeman , whose organization, the Middle East Policy Council, has taken Saudi money , and who has sometimes been ... (more) On the Analytical Abilities of Chas Freeman
Had They Known
Had They Known
commentarymagazine.com — Had the public (and specifically Jewish voters, who voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama) known that Obama would... appoint the Saudi-funded, Israel-bashing, analytically-disabled Chas Freeman to a key national security position, I wonder if he would ... (more) Had They Known
Puncturing Peretz’s ballong x 3
yourish.com — First it was about Durban II : The main reason I do this is that I gave... the benefit of the doubt to the administration’s motives in sending a delegation to the preparatory sessions in Geneva where some interventions proved just how weak we ... (more) Puncturing Peretz’s ballong x 3
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Time’s slimy, whiny, Klein
Yourish.com — via memeorandum Joe Klein is upset that “neo-cons” are daring to question the President. Now, many of these neocons have been gunning for Obama from the start…and have been just twitching in anticipation of the chance to paint him anti-Israel or worse. Their tendency to slime their detractors with overwrought epithets–anti-semite is the old standby–has diminished whatever power that term once held. In this case, once again, they are standing athwart America’s best interests–and Israel’s: ...

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