I know it sounds somewhat bizarre, but a question that presents itself in the wake of Israel’s attack on the Mavi Marmara and Washington’s protective reaction is this: As North Korea is to China, is Israel to the United States?… Continue Reading
I didn’t get the chance, over the weekend, to blog about the New America Foundation event last Friday for Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s new book, “The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa.” The book, of course, is best known… Continue Reading
Via Ali Abunimah, the Turkish paper Hurriyet has posted a gallery of photos recovered from the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, the now-famous ship involved in last week’s flotilla incident. Another photo from the set, displayed here, has been posted… Continue Reading
While the Israeli government has apologized for having “inadvertently issued a video link that had been sent for our perusal,” an Israeli government endorsed social networking tool, Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS), is still promoting Caroline Glick‘s tasteless Flotilla… Continue Reading
With Friends Like These… #72,349 in a series of 5,675,826 On the same Israel Project press call where Rep. Brad Sherman proposed prosecuting U.S. citizens aboard the Free Gaza Flotilla, his bi-partisan counterpart, Republican Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, disavowed… Continue Reading