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I have just seen Eric Alterman’s response to the response to the Nation’s cool-tempered editorial on the massacre on the Mavi Marmara: You know, it’s funny. Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority are all engaged in this blockade (which I strongly oppose). But if you read The Nation’s editorial on the topic, “Free Gaza,” you’d have to […] Exhibit A were Melissa Harris-Lacewell’s blog entries at the notion. I read a handful, baffled. She seemed like a human fog machine pumping out banalities while southwest Asia was bombed to smithereens. Even when she bothered to point out Obama has erred from grace a time or two, she was certainly not “faltering [in her] support.” […] So I am sitting here, procrastinating in the face of re-writing the personal statements for graduate school that should be written before I get on a plane to Cairo tomorrow. On the solidarity movement front, things are looking a bit glum. We may not be able to triumphantly march into Gaza. The Egyptian government–hopefully feinting–claims that […] In a frenetic rush, I missed Eric Alterman’s last column, about J Street, The New Republic, and, as is usually the case, himself. I’ve come to the conclusion that Eric basically runs a glorified gossip column. Maybe this accounts for his popularity–gossip is a perennial winner. Eric starts off by noting that the current moral or […] The Nation magazine’s letter section, to my stunned surprise, ran a letter [fire-walled] from a member of the International Jewish anti-Zionist network, decrying Israeli settler-colonialism, and thus Zionism in general. This is a bit outside the fold for the Nation, which has generally been quite good recently on the I-P conflict, under the excellent stewardship of […] As I tap this out I am on a bus on my way to the J Street conference, as this blog steadily transitions to a state of monotonous obsession with the I-P conflict (a temporary state, FYI!) The J Street conference will host a lot of liberal Zionist luminaries [sic?] and a lot of people committed […] It’s lecture time at Jewbonics. Eric Alterman, apparently not heeding the warning label attached to the Israel-Palestine conflict, reading, “Unsuitable for nincompoops,” has decided to write a blog post on Mahmoud Abbas and the Israel-Palestine impasse. This is gonna be good. Alterman starts off with a characteristically bland, off-kilter survey of Mahmoud Abbas’s record: Abbas came to Washington […] So Jewbonics’ eleventeen loyal readers know well that if there’s one buffoon I love pillorying, it’s Eric Alterman, and if there’s one topic on which, without fail, he will produce commentary of a particularly exquisite type of stupidity, it’s Israel-Palestine. Add to this wondrous mix that there are credible reports that Eric held forth live, without […] |
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