In my 2007 review of The Israel Lobby I noted that Mearsheimer and Walt try to see Israel as a normal state capable of making rational decisions, but the extremists are in charge and have been so at least since the 1967 War. Any attempt to make a meaningful withdrawal from the West Bank and Jerusalem […]
Apropos Sam Dickson’s article on the Ferguson lynch mob, an article by John R. Lott, Jr. in the New York Daily News rounds out the story (“Ferguson Fakeout: The Justice Department’s Bogus Report“). After failing to nail Darren Wilson despite what were doubtless gargantuan efforts, Eric Holder’s department sought their pound of flesh anyway by writing a […]
Not for the first time (see here and here), Philip Weiss has expounded on Jewish power, this time as it relates to Netanyahu’s speech (“Netanyahu’s speech and the American Jewish condition“). The fear [of persecution] blinds Jews to our power, in Israel and the United States. It is hard for Jews to think of ourselves as powerful […]
German translation of “Two ingroup morality items,” by Thora Wie auf den Seiten von TOQ schon oft festgestellt wurde, propagieren Diaspora-Juden im Westen ständig Einwanderung und Multikultur als unverzichtbare Werte und moralische Ideale, die nicht in Frage gestellt werden dürfen, während die gesamte Politik des Staates Israel darauf gerichtet ist, dessen jüdischen Charakter zu bewahren. […]
It’s obvious that there is a strong Jewish influence in the West opposed to Russia, particularly noticeable among the Israel Lobby and the neocons — Victoria Nuland‘s family ties and her role in the Ukrainian revolution come to mind. There are many reasons for this, certainly including Russia’s alliance with Iran and Syria at a time when […]
