Best Jewish (perspective) Blog on the Middle East and Israel (in my opinion)

I've posted this site before with direct links, but thought that everyone interested in the Middle East and Israel may find value in it.

The site is Mondoweiss.

Very intelligent and interesting posts on the latest, particularly commentary on coverage from Ha'aretz. Btw, if you think you're an American Israel backer, and you don't read Ha'aretz, then you're basically full of crap IMO.

Here is a great recent post,

http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/05/walt-and-mearsh.html

Excerpt

I've often argued that our journalism has done our country a real injury by marginalizing Walt and Mearsheimer. I say this anew because of two pieces I just read in (as usual) Haaretz. 1, Haaretz essentially echoed much of what Walt and Mearsheimer wrote about the stranglehold on policy in this interview with Haim Saban, the Israeli-American financier of the Brookings Institution and of the Democratic Party.

You said once that you are a one-note person, and that note is Israel. Why?

"You can't explain love."...

Do you still feel, as you once did, that America's attitude toward Israel is liable to deteriorate?

"At the moment there is no sign of a crisis. But we must not be complacent. The two pillars of the state are the Israel Defense Forces and the U.S.; Dimona [the site of Israel's nuclear reactor] and Washington. We must do all we can to maintain the alliance with America. A major crisis at the wrong time could be a disaster, a disaster." [emphasis mine]

Do you feel that as an Israeli-American of influence your mission is to prevent that crisis?

"You said it."

You can't be more explicit. Washington is a pillar of the Israeli state. The only reason Walt and Mearsheimer were attacked as antisemites is that they threatened the status-quo by saying, heaven forfend, that this intimacy wasn't in the American interest.
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Great, great blog for a more balanced view on Israel and the Israeli lobby. As written in this forum several times, Zionism is not an epithet, and many Israeli Zionists want nothing to do with American Jews who (in their eyes) sellout the idea of Jewish nation state by trying to wield American political and military influence over and through Israel.

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