That’s what Obama-administration policy-making and J Street’s response to it reminds me of. The dynamic goes like this. The Israeli government makes some bellicose statement, or takes belligerent action, that greatly prejudices Palestinian national interests. The Obama administration, blind but not deaf, tut-tuts very fiercely. J Street, hearing a tut-tut, sends out a press release. We […]
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J Street has just “applauded” Rahm Emanuel’s “strong remarks” at the Jewish Federation of North America’s General Assembly [unlike for the J Street conference, Jewbonics did not secure press credentials]. What were Emanuel’s strong remarks? “No one should allow the issue of settlements to distract from the goal of a lasting peace between Israel, the […] Ethan Bronner’s tone is inimitable. Israel currently has 2,500 housing units under construction in the West Bank–every single itty-bitty one illegal. But apparently those aren’t quite enough. As Bronner writes today in the NYT, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will approve the construction of hundreds of new housing units in Israeli settlements in the West Bank […] Aluf Benn, Ha’aretz’s editor-at-large, has written an op-ed for the New York Times. The texts that the NYT op-ed pages print are useful for pinning down the precise outer limit of dissent allowed in capitalism’s major think-tank/echo-chamber. It’s a carefully crafted piece. Check it. Benn lays out the consequences of Obama’s reticence to go to Israel […] |
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