jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 30 days ago
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At a session yesterday at the J Street conference (an "unofficial" session, though it doesn't sound too unofficial in this rendering ), Max Blumenthal excoriated the head of J Street, Jeremy Ben-Ami, for "capitulating" to me in our interview last week . Blumenthal called me the self-appointed ...
newyorker.com - 25 days ago
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newyorker.com —
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
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Lawrence Wright: What really happened during the Israeli ...
newyorker.com - 25 days ago
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newyorker.com —
In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt
and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing...
station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven miles wide, and the ...
(more)
Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, and Israel
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J Street's Choice
The New Republic blogs —
... that the J Street crowd was much more left-wing than the group's leadership. Max Blumenthal protested J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami's moderate ...
Max Blumenthal: Elie Wiesel Appears With End Times Pastor John Hagee, Hagee Trashes Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic, also called the panel "clownish," attacking me for criticizing Wiesel. "Here's a tip," Goldberg wrote on his blog. "Criticizing public figures who survived the Holocaust is permissible, of course. But mocking them is disgraceful. It's also not going to win you too many Jewish friends." Goldberg also excommunicated me as one of the ...
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