by Ken Freeland A review of Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine by Joel Kovel (pictured) (2007), Pluto Press, ISBN-13 978 0 7453 2570 5, Paperback $20.48 at Amazon.com AMAZON.COM likes to tell its book-buying customers which books other customers also bought who purchased the same book, and I typically glance at this unsolicited information with bemused Continue Reading →
A CHINESE state oil company has just agreed to send two shipments of gasoline to Iran, showing Beijing’s essential disagreement and non-cooperation with any sanctions on Tehran that might seriously impact trade between the two countries. China’s position on Iran has become a concern to pro-Israel elements in the U.S. government, while Russia has recently made some concessions to those Continue Reading →
by Gordon Duff and Brian Jobert www.opinion-maker.org WHO SAYS al-Qaeda takes credit for a bombing? Rita Katz. Who gets us bin Laden tapes? Rita Katz. Who gets us pretty much all information telling us Muslims are bad? Rita Katz? Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, the primary source for intelligence used by news services, Homeland Security, the FBI Continue Reading →
by Stephen M. Walt LAST WEEK a colleague who has been facing repeated and unfair attacks in the media and the blogosphere (for making arguments that cut against the conventional wisdom) sent around an email asking a number of friends and associates (including me) for advice on how to deal with the attacks. Having been smeared in similar fashion myself, Continue Reading →
by Dr. Alan Sabrosky Alan Sabrosky considers the characteristics that differentiate Jewish nationalism from other nationalisms, highlighting in particular its intrinsic extremism, its xenophobia, racism and militarism, its undermining of civic loyalty among its adherents in other countries and its propensity to hatred and racial exclusivity. ISRAELI PRIME Minister Binyamin Netanyahu once remarked to a Likud gathering that “Israel is Continue Reading →