Jun 09 2010
I met Helen Thomas several years ago at a Washington DC restaurant. When I made the mistake of addressing her as a Lebanese-American (hard to recall now if my vocals were likewise hyphenated), she quickly corrected me. “I am an American of Lebanese descent!” I think she even wagged her finger at me as she …
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May 31 2010
This headline in today’s supposedly-progressive Haaretz – “Israel Navy commandos: Gaza flotilla activists tried to lynch us” – makes me wonder if something was lost in translation. The irony of a lynching in Israel’s own Deep South is strange enough fruit (see postscript) for a crack PR operation, but for an Israeli newspaper to acknowledge …
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May 21 2010
Thanks to “my” crack team of researchers, here’s the letter by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, and others, first published in the Books section (page 12) of The New York Times, Saturday December 4, 1948: http://www.archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 or http://bit.ly/d5pUR7 or http://tinyurl.com/2av8cho (thanks Børre) …interesting that “terror” or “terrorist” shows up 7 times. And here is …
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May 20 2010
Just read (confession: scanned) “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” by Peter Beinart: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/failure-american-jewish-establishment/ What caught my eye, near the very end of the article, was this: …the December 1948 letter from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and others to The New York Times, protesting right-wing Zionist leader Menachem Begin’s visit to the United States …
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May 16 2010
Marjorie, who co-produced “Voices From Inside” (http://www.voicesfrominside.net) forwarded another article this morning, along with these comments: “Having made an Israeli confessional film, I am meeting more and more Jews whose view of the conflict deals with only what degree of an ugly reality they are willing to take on honestly and still avoid censure. The …
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May 16 2010
And finally the bad news. Marjorie Wright sent this very depressing piece by Philip Giraldi (also former CIA) last night. For those of you who don’t get moist with Armageddon-anticipation, reading Giraldi’s prediction (that Israel will try to force us into a war with Iran by August) will make your heart sink lower than a …
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May 16 2010
Ray’s friend Paul Stahnke (a retired Foreign Service Officer) then forwarded this May 13 response (to Breger’s essay) by M. J. Rosenberg, adding this comment: “As you m[a]y know, Rosenberg was once an official with AIPAC before he saw the light.” Ray’s further comments by way of introducing Rosenberg’s response: “Rosenberg pulls no punches. More …
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