Author: shergald

Obama fights nasty whisper campaign

This recent post by Cecilie Surasky of Muzzlewatch (Jewish Voice for Peace) attests to reality of a behind the scenes smear campaign to peg Barak Obama as antiIsrael in the Jewish community. The campaign was apparently initiated...

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Obama: a right wing Zionist perspective

Obama is an empty suit into which people pour their dreams, or so we are told, by this diary, similarly entitled, Obama is an empty suit, that appeared on Daily Kos a day ago. The reality is that this antiObama diary is nothing...

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Photos of a Rescue Convoy to Gaza

The Electronic Intifada published this story by its editor, Ali Abunimah, on January 24, 2008: Top EU official backs Israel’s crimes in occupied Gaza:   A top European Union official has offered full backing for...

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John McCain is the Republican to fear most

(McCain) is to the right of Bush on a whole range of subjects – and he is the Republican candidate most likely to dispense with Hillary or Barack Johann Hari, the award-winning journalist and twice-weekly columnist for The...

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EI’s ongoing coverage of the Gaza crisis

We aren’t likely to hear discussion about the Gaza crisis during the political campaigns, given the negative press it might entail about Israel’s collective punishment of a million and a half Palestinians, many of...

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