youtube.com - 6/12/2009
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Max Blumenthal interviews Israelis protesting the Occupation on the anniversary of the Six Day War about Obama's speech to the Muslim World in Cairo the day ...
jpost.com - 6/18/2009
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jpost.com —
Only 6 percent of Jewish Israelis consider the
views of American President Barack Obama's administration pro-Israel, according...
to a new Jerusalem Post -sponsored Smith Research poll. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, was conducted among a ...
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6% of Jewish Israelis: Obama dministration is pro-Israel ...
online.wsj.com - 6/12/2009
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JUDEA PEARL A friend asked me to explain
why people in Israel, including seasoned peace activists, felt...
less than buoyant about Barack Obama's speech in Cairo last week. In theory, Mr. Obama's speech has affirmed everything Israelis have ever hoped ...
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Why Israelis Are Cool on the Obama Speech
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 6/11/2009
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The president is talking to prime minister Netanyahu
in this White House photo. And some Israelis are...
upset at an inferred insult . Sheesh. This relationship needs some boundaries.
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Israelis Take Offense
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Good Israelis To Max Blumenthal: Obama Must Save Us From Ourselves
TPMCafe —
My hero, Max Blumenthal, has a new video.
And this time, instead of racist American Jewish yahoos, he talks to real Israelis in Tel Aviv.
Check it out. I am not saying that these wonderful folks are representative of all Israelis. But they are (1) Israelis (2) not Americans who have just been indoctrinated in hate by their youth group or yeshiva (3) intelligent and (4) not drunk.
Imagine what life is like for these people as their country gallops off toward the crazy xenophobic religious right. We should empathize. After all, we know the feeling well.
Anyway, thanks Max.
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Teabaggers in the Holy Land
Jesus' General —
Patriotic American soon-to-be-perfected Jews in Jerusalem. A big helmet tip to Richard Silverman. And here's what real, not-likely-to-be-perfected Jewish Israelis have to say: ...
Max Blumenthal: Israelis to Obama - "Save Us From Ourselves!"
TPMCafe —
By Max Blumenthal
On June 5, when several hundred Israelis marched from Tel Aviv's Yitzhak Rabin Square to the Israeli Defense Ministry to protest the anniversary of the Six Day War, I was able to meet some of the country's most vociferous cheerleaders of Barack Obama. In complete contrast to the characters who appeared in my video report, "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem," those I interviewed at the demonstration (organized by the Israeli left-wing party Hadash) were invigorated by Obama's speech in Cairo, and excited by the prospect of an American president who would pressure Israel into making ...
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