Haven’t been following the U.S.-Israel tiff as closely as I might be if a whole bunch of other things weren’t on the plate, but others have been - and Glenn Greenwald knocks it out of the park today:
But over the last week, as the U.S./Israel dispute has blossomed, the American Right generally has engaged in much conduct […]

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Interesting. Sullivan, in discussing the amount of attention paid to Palestinian suffering, runs this picture (warning: graphic), and it elicits a volume of response from his readers, some of whom ask to be warned before he uses such graphic images - and others who say, you know what? This is war. Gaze upon it:
Compare this to […]

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Except, as Attaturk notes, this isn’t what we were talking about…
1. Congressman Jane Harman (D - CA) told a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby.
2. This is known because of an NSA Wiretap.
3. The suspected Israeli agent […]

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Been accused of antisemitism twice already over this past weekend’s print edition, in which we took pains to point out that Israeli kids die from Palestinian bombs too, and that’s equally as abhorrent.
But far as some folks seem to be concerned, any criticism of Israel whatsoever is antisemetic.

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Via Sullivan, Nir Rosen puts the Gaza fighting - and the word “terrorism” itself - in perspective:
Terrorism is a normative term and not a descriptive concept. An empty word that means everything and nothing, it is used to describe what the Other does, not what we do. The powerful – whether Israel, America, Russia or […]

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