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Top Netanyahu Adviser set to become Israel’s next US Ambassador

From On December 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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While Chuck Hagel is twisting in the wind, being savaged by the Emergency Committee for Israel and other “pro-Israel” organizations, Israels’ Prime Minister is contemplating making a neoconservative American-born GOP operative Israel’s next ambassador to the United States.

Ariel Kahan, the diplomatic correspondent of the conservative and religiously orthodox [...]

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The Ideological West Bank Settler Behind "Iranium"

From On February 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

This article originally appeared on AlterNet.

The drama never stops unfolding around the Clarion Fund, the operation behind a string of movies dubbed “anti-Muslim” by critics.

The group’s latest salvo is an hour-long documentary called “Iranium”, which more or less gives airtime to a gaggle of neoconservatives and their [...]

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Self-fulfilling prophecy: Dennis Ross Doesn't Think Anything Can Get Accomplished

From On January 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

I was struck by an article by Nathan Guttman in the legendary Jewish Daily Forward about Dennis Ross and George Mitchell jockeying for the position of Obama Administration’s point-person in the Middle East peace process. The whole thing is a fascinating read, but this line really jumped out at me:

Others have [...]

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The Neocon-Islamophobe Nexus: Clarion brings together Perle and Gaffney

From On January 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The Clarion Fund has been careful to claim that their documentary films, which have included “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” and “The Third Jihad,” are neither partisan nor designed to fan the flames of Islamophobia. But recent associations the group has made in Washington would indicate that Clarion, which appears to [...]

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Jewish Journal: Jeffrey Goldberg "Maintains the Dignity" of Pre-Iraq War Reporting

From On October 28, 2010 · 3 Comments

Jewish Journal’s Danielle Berrin’s profile of Jeffrey Goldberg is well worth a read for those who want to do a little armchair psychology on Goldberg. It provides no shortage of material for analyzing his views with nuggets like this:

Both of his parents were teachers and union loyalists, inculcating their son with left-leaning liberal politics [...]

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