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 [...]
Hagee said [he is not] trying to dictate Israel’s security and political policies. Hagee will support Israel whether or not it carries out withdrawals, he repeatedly said, adding that this is something its citizens will decide…
What Hagee essentially says about himself…is, yes, I am a skeptic as to the wisdom behind withdrawals. But I never [...]
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...I’m not in the habit of quoting anything by Arnaud de Borchgrave, one of the earliest neocon journalists going back as far as the Reagan Administration. But I have to give the guy credit. He wrote a very passable analysis of the Iraq Study Group and how its work might impact U.S. policy [...]
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