Both War Party candidates (Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama) have stumbled all over themselves -- and each other -- to promise the government of Israel they won't let Iran produce a nuclear bomb. Unless they begin to believe their own propaganda as Kennedy did (which...
Update: Gag Lifted in Druze Spying Case
Richard Silverstein sent this update last night to Antiwar.com regarding Sunday's article Shin Bet Arrests Israeli Druze at Syrian Border, Slaps Gag on Media Reporting: Yesterday, the Shin Bet lifted the gag order prohibiting reporting on the case of the 38 year-old...
Five Broken Cameras
From Washington Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace: Five Broken Cameras Documentary Shows Israeli Incursions into West Bank Never Before Captured on Camera Busboys & Poets and Jewish Voice for Peace to sponsor special Peace Cafe discussion following July 15 showing at...
Our Language Cops Are
a Bunch of Barney Fifes
Andrew Sullivan: I've touched slightly on the term 'Israel-Firster' - a shorthand that has an ugly neo-Nazi provenance, which is why I don't use it… As Justin Raimondo pointed out Monday, that etymology is false: the term was first used no later than 1953 by Alfred M....
F***ing Chronology, How Does It Work?
As often happens, one brilliant post at The American Spectator's blog (via Larison) led me to another. Behold: When I arrived late at the town hall event in Meredith, he [Ron Paul] was prefacing an answer to a question about Israel by expressing admiration for Zionist...
Newt Gingrich and Dave Weigel Will Bomb Knowledge Back to the Stone Age
SEE UPDATE BELOW. Dave Weigel is a history buff: [Newt Gingrich's] last full-on grapple with Romney came when the former governor attacked him, in a sort of more-in-sorrow-than-anger way, for saying that the Palestinians were an "invented people." That, said Romney,...
He Has Been With His Current Wife for a While Now
Today in questionable headlines: "Gingrich courting the Jews."
What Neoconservatives Think
Elliot Abrams’ wife (and as Glenn Greenwald points out, central figure in the neocon family) Rachel Abrams on the release of Gilad Shalit: "Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you. "Then round up [Shalit’s]...
If That Ain’t (a) Country, It’ll Harelip the Pope
Noah Feldman discusses a possible outcome of the Palestinian statehood bid: He [Mahmoud Abbas] could also still do what most expected him to try this week: Take his request for statehood to the UN General Assembly, where the U.S. has no veto. A two-thirds vote there...
Chimerical Cartography
A headline on the front page reads "Netanyahu possibly drawing own peace map." A source close to the prime minister has provided me with an early draft (click to enlarge):
