BOLD like a Leopard

Dan Rather and CBS retracted two reports regarding bombings on 9-11, but for whatever reason Dawson believes that only one of them actually occurred. (FAIR) This article is part of a series concerning my debate with AntiNeocon Report founder Ryan Dawson. See part 1 here . 4. Sins of the Cousin At one point in the debate Dawson attempted to deflect toward the issue of United 93 hijacking pilot Ziad Jarrah and the purported spying activities of his cousins Ali and Yusuf al-Jarrah on behalf of Israel. The implication being made, with no further explanation, is that since his cousin had been a deep operative for the Israelis how could they have not known that Ziad Jarrah was involved in the biggest terror plot in American history? I attacked this logic by citing the fact that the immediate families of many of the hijackers had expressed  surprise at their role in the attack, including Ziad Jarrah's uncle Jamal who claimed to the  Boston Globe  that he was ...

House Intelligence Committee counsel Daniel Goldman with committee chair Adam Schiff during the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump's communications with Ukraine. ( Ha'aretz ) The so-called Jewish "leadership" has scuttled American Jews' future Recently my aunt, who is almost 70 years old, told us that the current climate is the most anti-Semitic that she's seen in the USA having lived here her entire life. But I had to struggle to keep myself from saying how surprised I was that it wasn't worse. And I'm not the only one as a friend, like myself also Jewish, has observed the House impeachment hearings and said to me "this is bad for the Jews" for weeks on end. He says this because a glaringly prominent selection of people, from the heads of the committees (Adam Schiff and Jerrold Nadler), to their majority counsels (Norm Eisen and Daniel Goldman), to the witnesses (Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman), to the experts (Pamela Karlan...

Are defecting Trump voters featured in Super PAC ads truly indicative of a trend, or are the same convenient needles poking out of the haystack in the right place? In the course of his almost three years in office and previously during his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump has burned a lot of bridges, from former spokesman and New York biz pal Anthony Scaramucci to Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis, to former Apprentice  contestant and black outreach coordinator Omarosa Manigault, the Donald hasn't been shy when it comes to dumping what he considers to be dead weight. Yet despite these high profile fall-outs it is virtually unthinkable that he could be ousted ahead of the 2020 election by a conservative challenger. While millions of Republican voters say publicly that they are not happy about supporting Trump the man, but are happy about his results, they usually acknowledge that there is no palatable alternative on the landscape.  But a Democr...

While none of them by their own can do it, the forces of the progressive left and paleoconservative right are gaining ground with the public in their battle to end US military aid to Israel. Supporters of the bilateral relationship should prepare for change rather than live in the past. For the past fifty years pro-Israel activists and organizations have sold their supporters on two goals being essential to Israeli security: a) ever larger loan guarantees to the Jewish state for military aid, and b) a solid bipartisan consensus in order to secure them. Accordingly, many of these organizations pour tremendous lobbying resources and public efforts in order to maintain a wall of support in Congress. As the 2000 electoral cycle heats up, the prospect that this is a sustainable way to maintain the US-Israel relationship is looking increasingly precarious. Whereas the critics of this arrangement allege that it is a direct quid-quo-pro relationship, in reality the lobbying organizations...