Notwithstanding his record on the neverending “peace process” (12 years, during which colonization of the West Bank marched on), Dennis Ross is said to be on the inside track to become envoy on the Iran portfolio under Obama. Well, two…
Mazin Qumsiyeh writes in an email: Associated Press Story: “The two men selected to serve as Hillary Clinton’s deputy secretaries of state, Jacob Lew and James Steinberg, also filed financial disclosure forms. Lew, a former Clinton administration official who recently…
We have been running a series of posts from an anonymous journalist that began with a previously- unpublished story about how the Israel lobby flexed its muscle to destroy the candidacy of a Lebanese-American politician in New Jersey. After that…
Here’s a report that Dennis Ross’s candidacy to be Iranian envoy could be torpedoed by his heading the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute and not registering as an agent of a foreign government. The source is IRMEP, the investigative org…
Yesterday Laurence Zuckerman here pointed out that Turkish P.M. Erdogan was behaving politically when he pulled his theatrics at Davos. There is obviously truth to the comment; there are Turkish municipal elections in a month or so. But it raises…
J Street has found a wedge issue: support for “60 Minutes”‘ amazing broadcast last Sunday on the end of the 2-state solution. J Street is driving the wedge here, crying out to all American Jews to celebrate Bob Simon’s work,…
[From Jiser’s photostream.] Israel is screwed up because Israelis by and large have no communication with Arabs. That’s a simple fact. They don’t know Arabs and don’t trust ’em. I saw that for myself. Works both ways. But America is…
Nim Chimpsky takes Weiss’s side in the challenge posed by AC the other day, Is Weiss deluded that a sea change is occurring: This is obvious but since no one seems to have said it I’ll throw my two cents…