Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the ...

Try to imagine a young educated marxist conscript who had lost his consciousness during the Battle of the Somme, was then cryogenically frozen, and only revived last year. What would be his analysis of the conflicts in the Middle East? To answer this, consider John Spritzler's latest contribution. T...

The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing the appointment of Chas. Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. The next time anyone qvells about how moderate a Republican Olympia Snowe is just remember that it was p...

Hat tip: The Daily Dish I've been reading about the case of Chas Freeman, who has been nominated for National Intellgence Council Chief. Seems as if Mr. Freeman has been targeted by the Israeli Lobby for being, agasp, a person not falling in line with everything pro-Israel. Mr. Freeman from a speech...

A post by Dylan Matthews, guest-blogging for Ezra Klein, has been nagging at me for a couple of days now. Netanyahu's policy position here is based entirely on negatives. He doesn't want to divide Jerusalem, even though annexing East Jerusalem is illegal and would cripple the Palestinian economy. He...

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Barack Obama reiterated his intent to make repairing damaged relations with the Arab world one of his administration’s top priorities.  Though the interview was short on specifics (which isn’t surprising considering he’s several months fro...

From America’s “Jewish Triangleâ€� to Iraqi’s “Sunni Triangleâ€� Government Job Notice: No Gentiles Need Apply Mohamed Khodr “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.â€� –Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at University of Ca...

My goodness, Jonathan Tobin, rightist pro-Israel editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent says in The Forward that M.J. Rosenberg is a brazen vulgarian.  I’m sure M.J. will never live this down.  I guess being that Tobin edits a newspaper, he must not spend much time on the internet or he ...

Throughout this year’s campaign, I have been a strong supporter of Barack Obama. I have volunteered for his campaign in Nevada, driving through the southwest desert from my idyllic Los Angeles orange groves to lend my hand of support. I worked the phone banks with his campaign as well and tried to...

So the Dutch, ever attuned to ruffling feathers and then giving the finger to the duck, have produced a documentary on John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s “The Israel Lobby.� You might remember that thesis, originally circulated in the London Review of Books , for its argument that American Zi...