Uri Avnery on Barack Obama and the implications of his election for the Israel/Palestine conflict.
As a footnote to my previous post, exit polls shows Barack Obama won 77% of the Jewish vote - he even did better than Kerry. So much for those who believe American Jews are in the pocket of the Israeli right.
Israel has come up far less than usual during this election campaign. In fact, over the past year or so Israel has been in the news far less than it used to be. I imagine because the US has so many problems of its own, the Israel/Palestine boxing match just seems less and less relevant. [...]
A few months back, I wasn’t sure I was going to vote for Obama. He is way too conservative for my taste, particularly in foreign policy. His appointment of Biden reinforced that feeling. Since I currently live in New York, I feel it is a safe state for Obama. So I have the “luxury” of [...]
In the run up to the Iraqi war I was involved in a project called Stand Down which attempted to gather bloggers on the “right” and “left” of the political spectrum to write posts in opposition to going to war. Sadly the site is down. I say sadly because it would provide useful documentation of how correct the anti-war [...]
I have mentioned several times on this blog my deep affection for the New Yorker. My mom started subscribing to it when she came to this country in 1946 and it has always been in her home. On my iPod I have several New Yorker podcasts, both fiction and non-fiction and they are truly inspiring. [...]
Before the election, pundits on the right were predicting (hoping) for a historical shift in the traditional voting patterns of Jews — away from the Democratic party and towards Bush. By contrast, some on the left implicitely blamed Jews and “support for Israel” as the key engine for Bush & Co’s militant policies in the [...]