Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.

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Monday, March 21, 2016
Trump ‘Has No Business Being President’ Because He Would Be ‘Neutral’ to Israel — Clinton Tells AIPAC
If there was any doubt that Hillary Clinton is running to the right of Donald Trump on Israel, she removed it this morning with a fist-pumping hard-right speech to the Israel lobby group AIPAC that mentioned Israeli settlements just once, in passing, and continually derided the idea of American “...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton Just Lost the White House in Gaza
Famously, Hillary Clinton lost her bid to be president in 2008 six years before the election, when she cast a vote for the Iraq war. Barack Obama, who’d been against that war as a nobody state senator in Illinois, was able to run to her left in appealing to the Democratic Party base, and win the...
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Friday, January 03, 2014
No ‘Breakthrough’ and No ‘Agreement’ in the Middle East, Indyk says (Anonymously)
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Boston Globe’s Groundbreaking salute to BDS Will Bring ‘Fierce Criticism,’ US Campaign says
We're seeing more and more establishment institutions taking pro-Palestinian positions and then getting heat. In recent days the Newseum has folded , and so has the Church of Scotland .
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Thursday, January 03, 2013
Endless ‘Debate over Two-State Solution’ Is Cover for the Real Story, Annexation of West Bank
One of the wiser political observations I've read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National : "the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism." I've noticed the same thing, from rightwingers and even liberal Zionists: Keep talking about the need for the two state solution, so that no one talks about land policies that have made it impossible.
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