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Muammar ‘Hearts’ Barack
February 24, 2011Apparently, Colonel Qaddafi digs President Obama. In a speech published on Saturday, Qaddafi called Obama “a friend.” Speaking in Sirt at an event marking the 24th anniversary of President Reagan’s retaliatory attack on Libya after a Libyan terrorist strike, Qaddafi said, “At the time, we were the target of the American cannon, the American navy [...]
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Cut Off U.S. Aid to EgyptNow!
February 3, 2011The Obama administration seemed determined Wednesday to put as much daylight as possible between Mr. Obama and Mr. Mubarak, once considered an unshakable American supporter in a tumultuous region, with Mr. Gibbs once again raising the specter of a cutoff of American aid to the Mubarak government if the Egyptian president failed to bend. –N.Y. [...]
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Memories of Debbie Friedman
January 10, 2011Debbie Friedman’s memory is a blessing. Beyond the hundreds of songs she composed, she was a pioneer of an entire genre of Jewish religious music (sometimes known as “American nusach”) that has revolutionized American Jewish prayer. My memories of Debbie are too numerous to put in a comment, so I’m putting some of [...]
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RHR2010: Israel, Exceptionalism, Human Rights and the Road Ahead, Part 1
December 7, 2010I’m blogging from Human Rights Under Fire: A Jewish Call to Action, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America’s third conference on Judaism and human rights. The final session of the conference is a plenary session: Israel, Exceptionalism, Human Rights and the Road Ahead. The session has two parts. In Part 1, our speakers are [...]
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When Arabs Are More Bibi Than Bibi Himself
December 6, 2010Raymond Bonner, writing for The Atlantic.com, on the sea-change that might be coming, thanks to the Wikileaks revelations:Sure, we knew that Middle East governments were concerned about Iran. But we didn’t know to what degree. The cumulative impact of these cables is profound. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, the largest, wealthiest, and among the most [...]
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Anwar al-Awlaki, and a Goldblog-Greenwald Convergence
December 2, 2010Some unfinished business. I was talking a couple of weeks ago to Nick Baumann of Mother Jones Magazine — he called to ask me to describe what I thought a proper airport security system should look like — and somehow we turned to the subject of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Islamist propagandist and American citizen. [...]
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Why isn’t Netanyahu promoting the new deal on the settlements?
November 15, 2010An e-mail I got from an American friend (based in Tel Aviv) in response to my last post makes a noteworthy observation: An interesting element here is the way American papers are saying Netanyahu agreed to push for a settlement freeze while Israeli media has him, somewhat indifferently, just bringing the American [...]
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Serving on the periphery: new year-long service program in Israel
November 10, 2010In Israeli parlance, ha-peripheria (the periphery) is akin to our American slang “the ghetto” and generally refers the areas outside the coastline-Jerusalem axes. Bespeckled with Negev “development towns,” Bedouin hovels and Arab towns of the north, these are Israel’s backwaters where the most disempowered and poorest Israeli citizens reside. Now American Jews are extended a [...]
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Israeli Security Labels American Professor Terrorist, Then Realizes It Was Mistaken Identity
November 1, 2010Today, Haaretz confirms what I suspected yesterday, that the American professor forced to endure a full body search and whose privacy was invaded by a male officer entering the examination room while she was partially naked, was confused with another person. There are a lot of Heather Bradshaws in the world. That Shabak, which ordered [...]
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HOW OBAMA WEAKENED US POWER
October 29, 2010The leftist punditry that played such a key role in convincing the American people that it was safe to hire an inexperienced community organizer as the chief executive of the world’s premier power is at it again. This time it seeks to convince the American people that their perception is wrong. Barack Hussein Obama has [...]
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Demand for Taglit-Birthright trips on the rise
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Kate Smith and Assimilation
October 4, 2010A recent Associated Press-Univision poll of more than 1,500 Hispanics includes a troubling, even stunning, fact: Forty-six percent — a near-majority — do not wish to change to assimilate into America, roughly defined as learning English, prizing American history and tradition, and respecting U.S. law. This finding should alarm, on every level. First, as Lincoln [...]
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Goldblog Assignment Desk, J Street Edition (UPDATED)
September 30, 2010Goldblog can’t travel to Hong Kong right now to find Consolacion Esdicul, the mystery woman who has provided seven percent of J Street’s operating budget since the group was founded. But he would invite intrepid Hong Kong-based journalists to find Esdicul and ask her several questions, including:1) Where did she get $811,697 to donate to [...]
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What Does it Mean if AIPAC Wins?
September 30, 2010In reference to an earlier post, in which I noted the failure of a core J Street strategy — to engineer American pressure on Israel to cease settlement activity — I suggested that the Obama Administration’s decision to try a non-confrontational approach on settlements meant that AIPAC has won this round against its would-be lobbying [...]
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How Goldblog Knows That God is Messing With Him
September 30, 2010Last night, another Washington dinner (this one at that charming bed-and-breakfast, the Mayflower Hotel), so of course another devoted Fidel-hater seated right beside me. Earlier this month, it was Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the Miami congressman who thinks that Fidel Castro is Satan, but smells worse. Last night, at a dinner for the non-partisan International Foundation for [...]