In a June 14th editorial in The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol called on Congress to defend Israel against its critics, both foreign and domestic. Kristol and the Israel lobby’s pleas for Congress to close ranks around Israel after the IDF’s… Continue Reading
Tom Friedman is traveling again. This time he’s in Turkey, checking in to tell us that Turkey’s withdrawal from the Western orbit is all Turkey’s fault. His tack comes as no surprise to those keeping track of the neocons and… Continue Reading
The results of a recent B’nai B’rith poll (PDF) suggest that, despite the best efforts of the poll’s organizers to throw the results with leading questions, Israelis are of far more than just one mind on how diaspora Jews should… Continue Reading
Giles Scott Smith at The Holland Bureau has written an informative piece about the ties between Islamophobic Dutch politician Geert Wilders—the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (PVV)—and the American Israel lobby. Smith explores the ties between Wilders and various… Continue Reading
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Consider today’s post my way of launching my new book,The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, which will officially be out later this week. Of it, Andrew Bacevich,… Continue Reading