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Tag Archives: U.S. Policy in the Mideast
Freeman says special friendship has damaged US ‘values… influence, leadership, credibility’
Pulse has posted a transcript of Chas Freeman's comments on Israel as a strategic liability at the Nixon Center the other day. Boy can this guy write. Here's an excerpt. I never heard the Johnson-Goldwater datapoint before, got to look it up. --Weiss
We need to begin by recognizing that our relationship with Israel has [...]
The American street is wising up
John Cole, at the Scranton Times-Tribune, a week ago, after the Netanyahu visit, "Flying the Flag". A lot of the comments are positive, at Cole's site (h/t Jeff Blankfort):
Hirst: Lobby’s bigotry and disdain for US interests mean its days are numbered
At Pulse, Robin Yassin-Kassab interviews David Hirst, author of Beware of Small States, and asks two really important questions re the lobby. Read the whole piece to see Hirst's analysis of the next war, starting with Lebanon, and how big it could get. Egad. Though I share some of Hirst's glass-jaw analysis of the lobby, [...]
No contest on whether to protect Israel or protect U.S. citizens
My oh my, what a sad state of affairs it is when the prime minister of another country takes a stronger stance than the U.S. government has on the killing of an innocent U.S. citizen.
Charlie Rose interviewed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last night, and Erdogan explained why Turkey was so angered at the [...]
US tax dollars at work in Egypt
This is where US tax dollars are spent: propping up a ruthlessly violent Egyptian regime that doesn't respect human rights, civil society, and democracy: at Foreign Policy, Soha Abdelaty reports on the tyranny of Egypt's emergency laws.
Three US Presidents’ failure to effect right of return calls on Jews to examine our role in society
When we hear someone call for the “right of return,” we tend to think the speaker is a Palestinian solidarity activist or a radical who doesn’t believe that Israel has a right to exist. How many of us understand that for many years, American presidents of both parties also called for the right of return, [...]
Sometimes Americans deserve to win
I admit it: by the end of the Algeria match right now, I had switched sides and was pulling for the United States. For a simple reason, because they (we!?) deserved to win, and if they had lost, they would have been (twice) stung by injustice. It's rare these days to feel sympathy for the [...]
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