Advertisements In my latest piece for Souciant, I again try to place the fairly ludicrous issue of the “Israel Lobby’s” existence into some kind of perspective, this time focusing on the hysterical reactions to Tom Friedman’s recent off-hand remark about it from Michael Oren and Elliott Abrams. Continue Reading
Advertisements George Lucas (who incidentally should be legally barred from ever writing dialogue) wrote some of his cheesiest lines in the new Star Wars films when he was waxing political. One of the worst actually resonated today as I watched Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant speechto a joint meeting of Congress. LucasContinue Reading
Advertisements When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer released first an article and then a book called “The Israel Lobby,” the reactions on both sides were hysterical. Supporters, including some with far more pernicious and conspiratorial views than the authors, treated it almost like the Bible, reading it uncritically and applyingContinue Reading
Advertisements When writing about President Obama’s speech on Thursday, I got one thing very wrong. I wrote: “Bibi will not have anything here to fight with Obama about tomorrow.” Well, that was wrong; but not as much as you might think. As MJ Rosenberg pointed out in his Friday column,Continue Reading
Advertisements Now that the United States has officially abandoned its attempt to convince Israel to stop building settlements for just a little while, please?, everyone is waiting for Plan B. Those who still hope for a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict are hoping that the Plan B willContinue Reading
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