If you think the news from the Middle East couldn’t get any worse, well, wait ten minutes. This once inconceivable sequence of horrifying events seems destined to rumble on until, well, until it stops. I am generally a fan of finger pointing, but this constant barrage of disasters is, naturally, spawning an orgy of outrage…
Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu
Yo, Jennifer Rubin! Who’s changed, Benjamin Netanyahu or you?
Meet the new Netanyahu. Not the same as the old Netanyahu, says WashPost rightie turned leftie gal Jennifer Rubin, more in sorrow than in anger. In case you haven’t been paying attention, frequent Israeli prime minister (and frequent AV non-fave rave) Benjamin Netanyahu has sunk from, well, atrocious to abysmal. Simply put, the man hath…
Rob who? Stormy who? Bennie who?
Want to read about that whole Rob Porter thing? You know, that White House dude whose two ex-wives accused him of abusive behavior, whose ex-girl friend claimed was receiving special treatment because he was “dating” White House babe/communications director Hope Hicks.1 Or how about Stormy Daniels, the porno star who received a $130,000 payment “facilitated”…
Excuse me. When did Israel turn into the stupid country?
Over at Politico, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., has a piece, “Ten Deadly Lies about Israel”, that has to rank as one of the clumsiest hack jobs I’ve ever read. Dermer’s “discussion” over the violence erupting in Jerusalem can be boiled down to “Israel 100% right, everyone else 100% wrong.” Dermer’s rap is…
The apocalyptic messianism of Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent exercise in arrant knavery has received a gratifying amount of pushback, thanks to Fareed Zakaria, Roger Cohen, and Daniel Larison, among others. As Zakaria emphasizes, the current imbroglio is the result of the Bush Administration’s decision, back in 2005, to torpedo an earlier agreement that would have limited the Iranian…
The Israeli assault on Gaza: A cry for help?
There were a lot of unhappy people around the globe on Wednesday, Nov. 7, but Benjamin Netanyahu must have been one of the unhappiest. In the three presidential debates, his man Mitt proved to be no George Bush, and then in the election itself he was totally whipped. Not only that, the Democrats picked up…