Note: this post contains some material excerpted from a post written yesterday.
Bill Kristol, the doyen of neocon chatterati, has given his imprimataur to a McCain-Lieberman ticket in a column in today’s N.Y. Times:
…McCain…could decide that Obama’s conventional pick of Biden allows him to seize the moment by making a bold choice. He could select the [...]
In all the coverage of Joe Lieberman’s address to the Christians United for Israel gala last month, only Justin Vogt, writing for The National, seems to have noticed that Lieberman tacitly called for Israel to attack Iran. Considering that this man may be John McCain’s running mate in a few days or weeks, I can’t [...]
Read full post...J Street has commissioned its first opinion survey seeking to determine the level of support among American Jews for territorial compromise and a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict (summary). There will be those of my right-wing readers who may doubt the results given J Street’s clear political commitments. But the poll actually dovetails nicely [...]
Read full post...To continue the reference to Mrs. Robinson: “Anyway you look at it, you lose.”
Joe Lieberman is in the delicious position of being damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. He’s just announced that he plans to address Hagee’s Christians United for Israel annual conference:
Sen. Joe Lieberman said Wednesday he will address a [...]
Wise words always seem to come from Rabbi Eric Yoffie when he speaks. Recently he addressed an international Islamic conference and denounced Jewish and Muslim extremism. Now, he has given all Reform congregations explicit instructions that John Hagee, Christian evangelical zealot and founder of Christians United for Israel should not be welcome by [...]
Read full post...James Besser has a good piece in Jewish Week about Christians United for Israel, the uber-Zionist evangelical group founded by John Hagee, darling of AIPAC’s last national policy conference. What struck me about CUFI is that it threatens to become Israel’s Golem. Rabbi Yehuda Loew created the creature to protect Prague’s Jews from [...]
Read full post...AIPAC honors John Hagee, believer in second Jewish Holocaust (credit: Jerusalemonline.com)
Pastor John Hagee is the Father Coughlin of Christian evangelical preachers. He may not be an out and out anti-Semite like Father Coughlin, who after all hated ALL Jews while Hagee only hates liberal Jews–but with friends like Hagee, believe me, Jews need no [...]
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