Added on 05/02/2013
Richard Silverstein
Censorship , Israel , Press Freedom , Reporters Without Borders , Saudi Arabia , Sheldon Adelson , United Arab Emirates
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Israel has fallen 20 places in the Press Freedom Index. It now ranks below both Qatar and Kuwait. But is its ranking low enough?
Added on 09/09/2012
Steve Royston
Afghanistan , Albania , America , Barack Obama , California , Cambodia , China , Clinton , Congress , Energy , George W. Bush , Hitler , Impotence , Internal Revenue Service , Iraq , Israel , Japan , Jerusalem , Lincoln , Lyndon Johnson , Middle East , midwife , Mitt Romney , National Front , North Carolina , Obama , Pakistan , Paranoia , Paris , Poland , President , prime minster , Richard Nixon , Ronald Reagan , Russia , Sheldon Adelson , Sunday Times , The New York Times , Twitter , United Kingdom , United States , US Elections , US Treasury , Vietnam , White House
STEVE ROYSTON: Preparation involves coming up with diversionary tactics whenever the question is likely to produce a response unpalatable to the listening millions.
Added on 20/08/2012
Juan Cole
Ali Khamenei , America , Barack Obama , Barak , Binyamin Netanyahu , Democratic Party , Ehud Barak , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Iran , Israel , Israeli government , Lebanon , Middle East , Netanyahu , Obama , President , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , Shimon Peres , United States , US intelligence , USG , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Netanyahu and Barak were intent on boxing Obama into a corner. But the wily octogenarian, Shimon Peres, has stepped in.
Added on 15/08/2012
Juan Cole
Alternative Energy , Binyamin Netanyahu , Elections , France , Iran , Israel , Likud Party , Mother Jones , Nicolas Sarkozy , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , U.S. Presidential Elections , United States
JUAN COLE: After Nicolas Sarkozy lost the presidency in France, SWAT teams went into his house looking for evidence that he had received $50,000 illicitly from the L’oreal heiress. $50,000? Our politicians get that in their sleep.
Added on 30/07/2012
Juan Cole
Benyamin Netanyahu , Binyamin Netanyahu , Christian Zionists , fundraiser , George W. Bush , Iran , Iraq , Irgun , Israel , Jerusalem , King David Hotel , Likud Party , London , Mahmoud Abbas , Menachem Begin , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Obama , Olympics , Palestine Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , sitting president , United Kingdom , United States
JUAN COLE: The trip of Republic Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. Here are just 10 reasons as to why…
Added on 19/06/2012
Richard Silverstein
Bibi Netanyahu , China , Congress , Eric Cantor , Iran , Israel , John McCain , Las Vegas , Middle East , Obama , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Politics , President , Republican Jewish Coalition , Sheldon Adelson , The Huffington Post , The Washington Post , Turkey , United States
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” Sheldon Adelson may not have breasts, but he sure has the money and the power.
Added on 07/05/2012
Mondoweiss
Christiane Amanpour , CNN , Ehud Olmert , Israel , Jerusalem , Jimmy Carter , Netanyahu , Palestine , Prime Minister , Republican Party , Sheldon Adelson , United States
PHILIP WEISS, CGNEWS: Ehud Olmert, former Prime Minister of Israel, revealed a lot in his recent CNN interview.
Added on 18/02/2012
Richard Silverstein
Alan Dershowitz , Benny Morris , Boston , David Horowitz , IDF , Israel , Jerusalem , Media , Phil Weiss , Sheldon Adelson , The Jerusalem Post , The Times
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Adelson, Klarman… Israel needs these far-right pro-Israel billionaires in its media like it needs a hole in the head.
Added on 28/01/2012
Juan Cole
Alan Grayson , America , Benjamin Netanyahu , Binyamin Netanyahu , Department of State , Egypt , Fatah , Florida , Food and Drink , France , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Germany , Governor , Haifa , Hamas , Hannah Arendt , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Israeli army , Italy , Jerusalem , League of Nations , Lebanon , Likud Party , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Newt Gingrich , Obama , Palestine , Palestine Authority , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Republican Party , Romney , Sheldon Adelson , Syria , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , West Bank
JUAN COLE: The maths speaks for itself – a country of 7.5 million people is surrounded by 400 others with whom it seems to be at constant odds.
Added on 23/01/2012
Richard Silverstein
America , Barack Obama , Bibi Netanyahu , Chicago , Israel , Las Vegas , model , Newt Gingrich , Richard Silverstein , Sheldon Adelson , South Carolina , Tea Party , United States
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Adelson would explicitly reject the dictum, kol yisrael erayvim zeh ba-zeh (“All Israel is bound up on in the other”).
