Benjamin Netanyahu, with a looming date with Israeli voters, is doing his best to portray himself as the victor in Israel’s 8-day, Operation Pillar of Defence but, in the minds of many Israelis, he’s actually the loser. Der Spiegel reports that a…
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drive-by planet: Israeli attack on Gaza: al-Jabari killing and airstrikes not just about rockets
Top: BBC worker Jihad Masharawi holds the body of his 11-month old son
Ahmad after an Israeli strike on the family home in Gaza City.
Bottom: Canadian protesters in Ottawa.
When Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in 2008 it was short…
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Green party’s Jill Stein on the ‘slave-like mentality toward Israel’
During the US presidential campaign the media was so preoccupied with the two-party race, contenders who represented third-party platforms were too often neglected. This is unfortunate because alternative voices can bring an objectivity to policy de…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Israel Misread America
In today’s Haaretz, Rabbi Eric Yoffie considers how Israel got everything so wrong and what its leaders must do to make peace with the White House.Americans are resolutely centrist. Israel’s politics may be veering right, but America’s are not. De…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Whither Israel?
Benjamin Netanyahu did everything shy of stuffing ballot boxes for Mitch Romney. He gambled, and lost. Now Benny will have to wait to see what his odious efforts have earned him.Israel awoke to the news it faced what many see as a politi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Third Man in America’s Presidential Election
You might have thought the contest was between Obama and Romney. Wrong. It’s actually between Obama, on one side, and Romney and Israeli thug Benjamin Netanyahu on the other. Netanyahu has abjectly failed at pressuring Obama into attacking Iran. Romney, it seems, doesn’t share Obama’s qualms and is therefore Netanyahu’s
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Voice of Sanity on Iran
Journalist and columnist Joe Klein offers some calm and sane commentary while others are clamoring for war against Iran: H/t Roger Ebert Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Praises Steve Harper, Sort Of
Steve’s biggest fan, Israel’s Benny Netanyahu, has sung praises of Canada’s p.m. for severing diplomatic ties with Iran. Canada said it acted because Iran was a terrorist state supporting Assad in Syria. Apparently Netanyahu didn’t get the right script. He says we ditched Iran because of nuclear weapons – that
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Avraham Burg and the hard truth about ‘Israel’s Fading Democracy’
Avraham Burg has an opinion piece in the New York Times this week titled “Israel’s Fading Democracy.” It’s well worth the read. Burg doesn’t shy away from addressing hard truths about the Israel of Binyamin Netanyahu – a society that has becomes more radicalized, in some respects more extremist.
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