pajamasmedia.com - 10/25/2009
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Peace Prize winners Begin, Peres, and Rabin are erased from a list published by the increasingly anti-Semitic paper.
Whose Israel is It?
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/29/2009 — I have spent the day in Washington, first at the Americans for Peace Now board meeting, where I am an officer, and later at the J Street conference, where I am a participant. I go to sleep tonight with this sentiment dancing on my brain: the promise ...
A Military Can Do Wonders for an Economy -- By: Interview
article.nationalreview.com 10/28/2009 — W hy is Israel so economically successful? Dan Senor and Saul Singer go beyond stereotypes and beyond the continuing Mideast conflict to analyze this question in their new book, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle . Senor, a ...
The most anti-Israel president ever
yourish.com 9/25/2009 — President Barack Obama didn’t just apologize for the Bush years in his speech to the UN yesterday. He delivered what is probably the most anti-Israel speech ever given by a sitting president.
Once again, he used the argument that there is ...
Yglesias at JStreet
volokh.com 10/28/2009 — Matthew Yglesias :
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, most of which I was right on and he was wrong on. But one ...
Peace and Nationalism in the Middle East
commentsfromleftfield.com 10/27/2009 — Matthew Yglesias has some interesting thoughts on conflicting values for progressives in the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As ...
Goldberg: The Last Word (At Least From Me)
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/23/2009 — A couple of days ago, Jeffrey Goldberg explained why he was disinclined to associate with J Street, in spite of his sympathy for a two-state solution:
So I'm comfortable in many ways with J Street's basic worldview. On the other hand, I don't ...
Peace and Nationalism in the Middle East
themoderatevoice.com 10/27/2009 — Matthew Yglesias has some interesting thoughts on conflicting values for progressives in the Israel-Palestinian conflict:
I was debating with Jon Chait at a J Street panel this morning on the subject of “what does it mean to be pro-Israel?” As expected, we disagreed on a number of points, ...
Obama wedded to a failed “Two-State Solution”
israpundit.com 9/25/2009 — By • Louis René Beres, Purdue University, SPME
In Washington, alas, there has always been too little learning from lessons of the past. Now, in New York, President Obama elegantly repeats the worn clichés concerning a “Two State Solution.” For his part, in Jerusalem, Prime Minister ...
Former Human Rights Watch Prez: Enough With the Israel Obsession
tnr.com 10/21/2009 — I don't know how I missed this, and I really don't know how Marty missed this, but it seems pretty significant that Robert Bernstein, the former president of Human Rights Watch, had an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times accusing his former ...
Dropping the Pro-Israel Pretense
weeklystandard.com 10/27/2009 — I suspected J Street wasn't pro-Israel in any meaningful sense of the term, and the conference seemed to confirm my suspicions, but never did I imagine that J Street would drop the pretense on the final day of their conference :
J Street's ...