Category: Israel

Blunt truths

Why Not in Vegas? By Thomas L. Friedman, July 31, 2012   I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/08/01/blunt-truths/

Window into the soul of a man

Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012  6:08 pm   Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/31/window-into-the-soul-of-a-man/

Hobnobbing with the uber-rich

Ten reasons Mitt Romney’s Israel visit is in bad taste By Juan Cole, Monday 30 July 2012 07.00 EDT   The trip of US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons.   He is holding a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. It is distasteful …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/30/hobnobbing-with-the-uber-rich/

Quelle horreur!

Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012   Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I’m not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I’m referring …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/28/quelle-horreur/

The red meat of military adventures

When soft power is hard By Richard Falk, 28 Jul 2012 10:17   There has been serious confusion associated with the widespread embrace of “soft power” as a preferred form of diplomacy for the 21st century. Joseph Nye introduced and popularised the concept, and later it was adopted and applied in a myriad of settings …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/28/the-red-meat-of-military-adventures/

Some kind of personality disorder

What’s wrong with Mitt Romney? By Joan Walsh, Friday, Jul 27, 2012 07:00 AM CDT   I have an idea for Mitt Romney: Release your tax returns today. Your coverage can’t get any worse than it’s been in the last 48 hours or so, and with any luck, your tax issues will distract the global …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/27/some-kind-of-personality-disorder/

Delusions of grandeur, coupled with paranoia

Confronting Pamela Geller By Harris Zafar, 07/13/2012  7:14 am   “As a Jew, I am offended to my core. Muslims have no right to invoke Moses and Abraham. This is a delegitimization of Judaism. It is offensive and vile. And while Jesus is not my guy, the same thing goes for him. It is a …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/07/13/delusions-of-grandeur-coupled-with-paranoia/