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What About the Occupation of the Western Wall?

I’m having a hard time understanding the thinking behind the Obama administration’s decision to criticize construction in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. The administration seems to have decided that Gilo is a settlement, and the international ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Contentions,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Robert Gibbs

Map Check

The central problem in foreign press coverage of Israel is the tendency of journalists to rewrite and sensationalize current events or, more commonly, to mischaracterize them into agreement with a preferred narrative. Take the brouhaha over Gilo. Many ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Contentions,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Apartments in Jerusalem, Now More Scandalizing than Ever

The latest expression of displeasure from the Obama administration over Israeli construction in Jerusalem should not be taken as a comment on the construction itself. It is actually a clumsy attempt at damage control. From China, Robert Gibbs said: “We ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Contentions,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Gibbs,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Palestinian Authority,  Mahmoud Abbas

How NIAC Lobbied against Dennis Ross

As revealed in Eli Lake’s bombshell story, the National Iranian-American Council has often acted as an advocate for the interests of the Iranian regime, especially in the early days of the Obama administration and before the Iranian election in June. ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dennis Ross,  Barack Obama,  US State Department,  Google Inc.,  George Soros

Judge Goldstone: I Participated in a Farce

Richard Goldstone seems to use interviews to chip away at the legitimacy of his own work. He told the Forward that nothing he uncovered in Gaza is credible enough to be admissible in court. And now he has admitted this to Haaretz: Many Israelis are ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Goldstone,  United Nations,  New York Times Company,  Human Rights Watch,  Shimon Peres

Peace Process 101

As a result [of Obama's Middle East policy], “world opinion” toward Israel has gone from cool to frigid — in Europe especially. U.N. actions such as the Goldstone Report are one manifestation of this; denunciations of Israel, not to mention efforts to ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  J Street,  Mahmoud Abbas

New York Review of Books Not Even Pretending Anymore

If the TNYRB editors want to get their ethical house in order, they should also take a look at the current issue. It contains a piece by Ed Witten gushing over J Street (gushing is perhaps too modest a word; the piece reads more like a press release ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: J Street

A New York Times Drive-by of Blackwater

The Times has run what it believes is a big scoop on page A1 today: a story claiming that Blackwater bribed Iraqi government officials in order to prevent them from taking action against Blackwater after the Nisor Square shooting of September 2007. As ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Cofer Black,  US State Department,  Central Intelligence Agency

Could “Secondary Trauma” Have Driven Him to Shooting?

So asks an absurd Time magazine story positing that Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered a dozen people while apparently shouting “Allahu Akbar” because in his line of work — psychiatry — “there was no shortage of horrific tales that could have set loose ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Taliban,  National Geographic

An Amazing Moment

Thomas Friedman’s column today is utterly sensible and completely realistic. The only thing driving the peace process today is inertia and diplomatic habit. … Right now we want it more than the parties. They all have other priorities today. And by ...

From NOAH POLLAK, Commentary,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Friedman

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