Obama at AIPAC- For Once He Doesn’t Cave to Pressure

President Obama made the yearly pilgrimage to the AIPAC conference today. This is an event where it is actually considered acceptable for the President of the United States and members of Congress to swear fealty to a smaller, belligerent client state/foreign power. Despite almost non-stop pressure from the Israel Lobby, the Israeli government and political […]

Israel Caught Red-Handed in False Flag Operation- MSM Largely Ignores It

This is really unbelievable. This is just an excerpt, but please go read the whole article over at Foreign Policy:: Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to […]

Last Straw: Israel is No Ally, We Must Cut All Aid to Israel

I have never before supported cutting ALL aid to Israel. However, I do now. Israel is no ally of the U.S. Rather, it is a petulant, spoiled client state that seems to delight in treating it’s superpower benefactor like little more than a useful idiot that screams “how high” when Israeli leaders scream “jump.” The […]

Are We Witnessing the Beginning of a Change in Discourse on Israel-Palestine?

It goes without saying that for the past 30 or so years in the U.S., real debate about our policy on Israel and Palestine is almost non-existent in any real sense of the word. The media, politicians, commentators etc. stick to one theme- unwavering, blind, unquestioning support for Israel no matter what, even if it […]

Chutzpah: Bibi Netanyahu to Demand Quartet Change Mideast Peace Plan Statement

After the US and our allies have spent the past however many months running around arm-twisting and cajoling the world to deny the Palestinians any recognition at the United Nations, after the US has intervened on behalf of Israel with regard to deteriorating ties with Turkey, Jordan and Egypt, after the US President gave a […]

How The Israel Lobby Stifles Debate and Dissent on Campus

This is an interesting article over at Al Jazeera and it gives some insight into why the Israel Lobby is so effective at stifling dissent on college campuses. The media largely ignores these efforts, presumably because it is unseemly and flies in the face of academic freedom and freedom of speech. Also, it is interesting […]

Washington Post: Support for Palestinians at UN is Anti-Semitism *updated*

The Washington Post is certainly working overtime to get Israel’s message out. Between Jackson Diehl, Richard Cohen, Jennifer Rubin and Fred Hiatt, it’s hard to tell who is a more effective hasbarist. In a guest commentary over at the WaPo, Robert Bernstein makes an argument that ends up minimizing true anti-Semitism as it tries to […]

DNC Feeds Into Fear-Mongering By Launching New Website to Convince Jewish Voters Obama Doesn’t Hate Israel

Unbelievable. The website is here. Somewhere in Washington AIPAC is laughing their asses off.

It’s Nice to Know Australia Also Has Their Own Israel Problem

I guess the endless, pointless, stupor-inducing game “who is more supportive of Israel?” isn’t just an American political distraction. I’m disappointed in PM Julia Gillard of Australia. She should at least abstain from the UN vote as FM Rudd is suggesting. But it sounds like she may vote against the recognition of Palestinian statehood.

The Washington Post Continues to Carry Bibi Netanyahu’s Water

Richard Cohen is a hack, but given his lofty perch over at the WaPo, it’s important to call him out on his shameless need to put the interests of a foreign country over the interests of the United States: Israel’s dilemma is that the Middle East, for all the talk of revolution, is slipping backward. […]

Where is the State Department?

I get all kinds of press releases/statements from the State Department whenever someone in Israel breaks a fingernail but what about this? At least EU High Representative Ashton has the ethics and political will to speak out. She must be so disgusted with the Obama administration’s weakness and pandering to the Israel Lobby.

U.S. Threatens to Cut Off Aid to Palestinians if They Go to UN

This is interesting because the other day the State Dept. press spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, was asked about this issue and she said that Palestinian aid is based on the needs of the people, ie. it’s not a carrot or stick. It seems she wasn’t telling the truth. From Haaretz: The United States will stop all […]

Israel Lobby Gives Clinton & Obama Their Marching Orders

Over at Politico former AIPAC spokesman, Josh Block, argues that President Obama and Secretary Clinton better damn well get on top of this Palestinian statehood thing! Of course, Obama and Clinton are on top of this issue to such a degree that it begs the question, if the statehood declaration is only symbolic and largely […]

Call Senator Leahy to Thank Him for Taking a Stand on the IDF’s Human Rights Abuses

Finally, someone in Congress who is willing to take a stand: U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy is promoting a bill to suspend U.S. assistance to three elite Israel Defense Forces units, alleging they are involved in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Leahy, a Democrat and senior member of the U.S. Senate, […]

Why is This NY Congressional Election All About Israel?

What about the economy, jobs, the environment, reaffirming the rights of workers, preventing NY jobs from going overseas? Nope, none of that matters apparently. The special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s vacated congressional seat has turned into a contest of who can love Israel more, complete with some good old-fashioned racial/religious politics and Islamophobia: In […]

Leave the Censorship in Israel, Please

The boycott law that was recently passed in Israel is an unreasonable infringement on freedom of speech and it’s aim is to silence all debate and criticism about Israeli policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians and the Occupation. Many Israelis across the political spectrum seem to agree on that point. Ok, but that’s Israel, this is the […]

The Arab Spring Comes to Israel…

And Bibi Netanyahu is terrified because it’s not Arabs taking to the streets, but the Israeli middle class. Here’s a nice big shout out to the folks in Israel who have managed to get their leaders re-focused on a domestic agenda that revolves around middle class priorities. Good for them. In case you weren’t aware, […]

AIPAC to Send 81 Members of Congress to Israel

This is how the game works. AIPAC pays to have members of Congress go on a “fact finding” trip to Israel to “educate” them and from that time forward, those members of Congress will know the rules; it’s pay-for-play. People with diverse opinions about foreign policy relating to the Middle East need not apply. It’s […]

It’s Time to Stop Chasing the Peace Process Unicorn

As someone who believed in the peace process and the two state solution, it’s not been easy to reach this conclusion, but all the evidence points this way. Earlier this month I wrote several posts about how the Mideast Quartet had become little more than a vehicle for the U.S. and Israel to strong-arm their […]

The State Dept. Has to Speak Out About This NOW: Israel Taking Unilateral Action to Prevent Contiguous Palestinian State

We hear a lot in the media, from our government and from commentators about how the Palestinians are undermining the peace process by taking “unilateral” action by going to the United Nations in an attempt to have a Palestinian state recognized by the international body. Both Secretary Clinton and President Obama have repeatedly denounced the […]