Author: shergald

The first insult was Joe Biden’s in Jerusalem last week; the second insult was directed at Obama personally, while Netanyahu was visiting the White House yesterday. And the timing was perfect. As Netanyahu was talking to...

This morning’s BBC story about the leaking of Hillary Clinton’s AIPAC speech gives some hints about the message, aside of the usual security guarantees, that she will present during the convention this week. For the...

“This is quite incredible, and fails to make it into Western media!” is a leading sentence in this story about censorship in Israel. But not just ordinary censorship: censorship of the Universal Declaration of Human...

Why not say what it is? “The U.S.’s dysfunctional patron-client relationship with Israel yields a predictable result: Once again, Israel disses Washington and does what it wants.” wrote Daniel Larison at The...

On European Tribune, this diary would be rated LQD (lazy quote diary), because there is nothing to add to a very quotable piece. It speaks for itself, and on the way provides a lot of insight into American journalism as...