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Obama to warn Israel, Palestinians of alternatives to Mideast peace (Haaretz, 23/09/10)
U.S. President: If no agreement reached, hard realities of demography will take hold and more blood will be shed.

A Bad First Step In US-Brokered Peace Talks (examiner.com, 21/09/10)
President Obama is sure to be claiming a victory today after the announcement that peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will commence on September 2 in Washington. / The victory is a hollow one. / The prize that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brings home is that the talks will commence without “preconditions,” which, in this case, means without Israeli having to extend its settlement freeze (which has been almost no freeze at all, and which will expire on September 26) and without using the Armistice Lines, established in 1949 after Israel’s war of independence, as the terms of reference for the border between Israel and a future Palestinian state.

Jewish Voice for Peace: TIAA-CREF DIvest from Israeli Occupation (YouTube video, 20/07/10)
On Tisha B'Av, Jewish Voice for Peace activists presented over 15,000 petitions and postcard signatures to one of the world's largest retirement funds, TIAA-CREF, asking them to divest from the Israeli occupation. TIAA-CREF, the premier retirement fund for America's professors,teachers and nonprofit workers, invests in companies like Caterpillar, Motorola and Elbit -they all make money from the repression of Palestinians. Listen to supporters and TIAA-CREF participants talk about why they went to the meeting to call for divestment. Join the campaign at www,jvp.org.

Homeland Insecurity - Young Jewish anti-Zionists struggle to find community (Tablet, 22/07/10)

Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline (Mondoweiss, 02/07/10)

Washington Asks: What to Do About Israel? (The New York Times, 04/06/10)
Some topics are so inflammatory that they are never discussed without first inserting a number of caveats. And so, when Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy dignitary in this town’s think tank circuit, dropped an article on Wednesday headlined “Israel as a Strategic Liability,” he made sure to open with a plethora of qualifications.

Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World” and the Tea Partying of the US-Israel relationship (Coteret, 06/06/10)
On Friday (June 4 2010,) uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic published a post entitled Israel Derangement Syndrome III. It linked to We Con the World, a remarkable video clip produced by Latma, the right-wing satire project lead by Caroline Glick, who doubles as The Jerusalem Post’s Deputy Managing Editor.

Hypocrisy Now!: The Pro-Israel Crowd's Sins of Omission (Huffington Post, 12/05/10)

Alan Dershowitz and the Politics of Desperation (The Huffington Post, 11/05/10)

World Jewish leader to Obama: Is U.S. committed to Israel's security? (Haaretz, 15/04/10) World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned United States President Barack Obama's commitment to Israel's security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fact Check- 3 case studies in the distortion of reality and “extremizing” peace advocates (Muzzle Watch, 19/03/10) Here are three examples of deliberate and not so deliberate blurring of messages and how people and peace groups are routinely “extremized”, as Naomi Klein says.

Rampant patriotism breaches on America's right (Salon.com, 19/03/10) During the Bush years, the Bush-following Right's Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee,frequently accusedopponents of the Iraq Warof being "unpatriotic,"endangering the Troops, and committing treason:  "They're not so much 'antiwar' as just on the other side," he often wrote.  Today, the same Glenn Reynolds wrote: If I were the Israelis, not only would I bomb Iran, but I'd do so in such a way as to create as much trouble for China, Russia, Europe andthe United States as possible.  

Are Israel’s Policies a Threat to the U.S.? (Forward, 17/03/10)

Yediot’s Misgav on Ayalon and J Street: “Is there no-one in our government of midgets who can stand up and put an end to this madness?” (Coteret, 21/02/10)

Kahanist MK supports Ayalon on J Street congressional delegation boycott: “An anti-Semitic lobby” (Coteret, 21/02/10)

Other Voices: Reporters’ Allegiances (Letter to the editor of the New York Times, 20/02/10)

Does NYT's Top Israel Reporter Have a Son in the IDF? (FAIR, 27/01/10) The New York Times refuses to confirm or deny a report that its Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, has a child who is an enlisted member of the Israeli Defense Force--even though such a relationship would pose a serious conflict of interest.

Campaign finance decision may hurt Jewish influence (Forward, 26/01/10)