I invite you to visit my new blog, MythicAmerica.us. It takes on a whole range of mythic foundations of U.S. political culture.
This blog contains only my writings on Israel, Palestine, and U.S. involvement in the Mideast conflict.
I’ve been a Jewish peace activist for over 30 years — teaching, organizing, and writing about Israel, Palestine, U.S. foreign policy, and the American Jewish community.
- READ HERE: “THE MYTH OF ISRAEL’S INSECURITY,” a long essay about the underlying premises of Zionism in Israel and the US, showing how those premises have kept Jews locked in conflict, and therefore insecure, since the beginning of the Zionist movement. New perspectives on why Israel will not make peace and why so many American Jews support Israel’s self-destructive policies.
“NEWS FLASH“ gives you news and opinion items that are likely to be overlooked or under-reported in the American mass media .
Here are links to MY OWN RECENT ARTICLES
Obama’s Risky Mideast Fantasy, Tomdispatch, March 31, 2013
Why Are Right-Wingers So Crazy in Love With Israel?, Alternet, January 14, 2013
Can’t Bear to Read: “Our Harsh Logic,” Truthout, December 21, 2012
Are the U.S. and Israel Heading for a Showdown?, TomDispatch, December 20, 2012
Obama Has Power But Risks Republican Wrath Gaining Mideast Peace, Truthout, November 26, 2012
Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns, ReligionDispatches, November 20, 2012
Obama Weaves Web of Deceit on Gaza War, Commondreams, November 19, 2012
The General’s Son Recounts Very Different Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, ReligionDispatches, October 12, 2012
Media May Give Hamas Extreme Makeover, Truthout, February 18, 2012
Why Would Israel Attack Iran, Really?, Huffington Post, February 9, 2012
New York Times Hypes Israeli Attack on Iran, Huffington Post, January 29, 2012
Gingrich on Palestine: Small Truths in a Big Lie, Commondreams, December 12, 2011
Israel May Ban Women Singing in Public, Truthout, December 8, 2011
Israel’s Defense Chief OK’s Hundreds of Israeli Deaths, Commondreams, November 11, 2011
Arab Blood on American Hands, Huffington Post, August 22, 2011
Obama May Support Palestine in UN, Huffington Post, June 8, 2011
Israel and the Palestinians Through the Looking-Glass, Tomdispatch, May 26, 2011
Itamar Murders: How the Israeli Narrative of Victimization is Fed, Truthout, April 30, 2011
Palestinians Waiting for Obama Peace Plan, Huffington Post, April 26, 2011
Obama’s Israel Policy: A Bad, Sad Joke, Huffington Post, April 21, 2011
Three Myths of Israel’s Insecurity, Tomdispatch, April 17, 2011
Why Not a No-Fly Zone for Gaza?, Commondreams, April 12, 2011
Obama’s Jerusalem Speech, Huffington Post, April 5, 2011
From Jerusalem to Washington, Myth Disguised as News, Antiwar, March 29, 2011
Public Support for Israel, Truthout, March 21, 2011
Israel’s “”Insecurity”: The Most Dangerous Myth, Commondreams, March 10, 2011
J Street’s Wrong Turn, Huffington Post, February 23, 2011
8 Most Commonly Held Misconceptions About the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Alternet, February 23, 2011
Obama Stood up to the Push by Israel and American Neocons to Stand with Mubarak in Egypt, Alternet, February 14, 2011
Jews’ Insecurity Blocking U.S. Mideast Peace Plan, Truthout, January 11, 2011
Israel’s Deadly Tear Gas Made in USA, Commondreams, January 5, 2011
Obama: Map Borders for Mideast Peace, Huffington Post, December 13, 2010
Hamas and Israel Trade Hanukkah Gifts, Huffington Post, December 1, 2010
Is Palestine America’s Next Vietnam?, Tomdispatch, November 9, 2010
Iranophobia: The Panic of the Hegemons, Tikkun, November, 2010
U.S. Can Put the Squeeze on Israel, Huffington Post, October 27, 2010
Netanyahu Tries to Scuttle Peace Talks Again, Antiwar, October 19, 2010
Deconstructing Israeli Media Distortions, Truth-out, October 15, 2010
J Street Weathers Another Cheap Attack from the Jewish Right Wing, Alternet, October 14, 2010
An Israeli Gandhi Seized at Sea, Commondreams, September 29, 2010
“Pro-Israel” Neocons Go Global, Truthout, September 28, 2010
This Yom Kippur, We Must Atone for the Sins of Israeli Policy, Alternet, September 16, 2010
Skeptics Could Doom Middle East Peace Talks to Fail, Commondreams, September 3, 2010
Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians, Commondreams, July 12, 2010
U.S. Navy Heading Toward Iran: Update, Alternet, June 22, 2010
Are U.S. Warships Gearing Up for Confrontation with Iranian Aid Flotilla to Gaza?, Alternet, June 21, 2010
U.S. Stands, and Lies, with Israel, Truthout, June 19, 2010
Zionist Joke: What Have We Ever Done To Them?, Antiwar, June 8, 2010
Israel Raises Nuke Threat to Iran, Commondreams, June 3, 2010
Activists on the Ship “Rachel Corrie” Challenge Israel’s Unjust Blockade and Zionist Myths, Alternet, June 3, 2010
Obama Must Ask Netanyahu the Right Questions, Truthout, June 2, 20101
Gaza Flotilla: This is What Smart Strategy Looks Like, Commondreams, May 28, 2010
How Many U.S. Progressives Please the Right-Wing Israel Lobby, Commondreams, May 17, 2010
Israel Provocation Gives U.S. Leaders a Chance to Be Strong and Right, Commondreams, May 13, 2010
Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial Choice, Tomdispatch, May 6, 20101
Why Does the U.S. Let Israel Get Away With Having a Nuclear Arsenal, Alternet, April 12, 2010
Whose Freedom?, Truthout, March 31, 2010
Why AIPAC Feels “Like Shit,” Commondreams, March 24, 2010
The Timing Is Ripe for Obama to Make Demands on Israel to Settle for Peace, Alternet, March 19, 2010
Your Friend, the Pentagon, Truthout, March 18, 2010
Pentagon Tells Obama to Press Israel for Peace, Commondreams, March 16, 2010
Netanyahu Derailing Peace Effort Using Heritage Sites, Truthout, February 28, 2010
Israeli Women Soldiers Break the Silence, Commondreams, February 1, 2010
Israel Finds a New Way to Play the Victim, Antiwar, January 21, 2010
Martin Luther King’s Legacy and Israel’s Future, TomDispatch, January 17, 2010
Israeli Threats Against Gaza Grow, Truthout, January 14, 2010
Israel Giving Gas Masks to Babies, Commondreams, January 11, 2010
What Planet are Netanyahu and Obama Living On?, Truthout, December 16, 2009
Israel’s “Pathology,” Truthout, November 14, 2009
US Words Thwart Middle East Peace, Commondreams, November 2, 2009
Politics Sparks Religious Conflict in Jerusalem, Commondreams, October 27, 2009
What’s Obama’s Score on Mideast Peace?, Truthout, October 16, 2009
Obama Trapped Behind Wall of Mideast Containment, Tomdispatch, October 6, 2009
Israel’s Supporters Ask, “What Sin?”, Truthout, September 23, 2009
Zionism Vs. Zionism, Truthout, September 18, 2009
Obama’s Israel-Palestine Gamble, Foreign Policy in Focus, September 16, 2009
Why Is Jane Fonda Being Accused Of An “Attack On The Heart and Soul Of Israel”? Alternet, September 10, 2009
Holocaust Still a Political Football, Truthout, September 5, 2009
“Socialized Medicine” and Hamas: Big Lies Thrive, Commondreams, August 27, 2009
Israel Not as Powerful as You May Think, Commondreams, August 20, 2009
“What do Palestinians Want?” is the Wrong Question, Truthout, August 16, 2009
Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East, Foreign Policy in Focus, August 10, 2009
Tel Aviv Murder Reflects Israeli Fears, Commondreams, August 4, 2009
Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise, ReligionDispatches, July 16, 2009
Hamas Getting on Board Peace Train, Commondreams, July 7, 2009
Forbidden Israel: Sex and the Settlers, Alternet, July 7, 2009
Charge of Anti-Semitism, Truthout, June 30, 2009
Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated, Tomdisptach, June 25, 2009
Israeli Leader Reveals Why Israeli Shuns Negotiation, Commmondreams, June 23, 2009
Time for Jews to Abandon the Old Foundation Myth of Israel?, ReligionDispatches, June 17, 2009
“Palestinians” without “Palestine”, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 16, 2009
Is Israel’s Aggression a Question of Pride?, Alternet, June 11, 2009
AIPAC Wall Beginning to Crack, Truthout, June 9, 2009
Game-Changer? American Jews Reaching a Tipping Point on Israel, Alternet, May 27, 2009
CIA Briefs Obama for Talk with Netanyahu, Commondreams, May 18, 2009
For articles that I’ve written before May, 2009 (and there are a lot of them), click on this link: “ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND THE MIDDLE EAST”
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