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UPDATE: An earlier version of this story was in error. After congratulating him on his new appointment, Ori Nir informed me that he is not the new Haaretz correspondent in Washington. That honor goes to Natasha Mozgovaya, a “talented young reporter,” according to Nir. I apologize for my part in spreading this [...]

Shmuel Rosner is always good for some amusement (unintended of course). And reader Eran points to today’s column as a special laugher about George Bush’s Half Done (more accurately “half-baked”) presidency. The worshipful prose is unbelievable considering how universally condemned the Bush presidency has become (most polls show him at or near his [...]

Wise words always seem to come from Rabbi Eric Yoffie when he speaks. Recently he addressed an international Islamic conference and denounced Jewish and Muslim extremism. Now, he has given all Reform congregations explicit instructions that John Hagee, Christian evangelical zealot and founder of Christians United for Israel should not be welcome by [...]

At this point, no one is much surprised by the right-wing skew of Shmuel Rosner’s coverage of Israeli politics as Haaretz’s Washington correspondent. But his Israel Factor campaign coverage hit a new low with this headline for today’s column. If you look inside at the column you’ll only be partially relieved to [...]

Do you think Obama is thinking of all those elderly Jewish voters he has to face in Florida in a few weeks? And of his need to fend off a potential Clinton attack from his political right?
Dear Ambassador Khalilzad,
I understand that today the UN Security Council met regarding the situation in Gaza, and [...]

Thanks to Phil Weiss for noting this terrific profile of Haaretz by Stephen Glain in The Nation. Every Israeli newspaper has its own functional niche in the country’s media marketplace and both Maariv and Yediot each have important columnists. But there really is no paper quite like Haaretz for the breadth of its [...]

Shmuel Rosner, one of the U.S. Israel Lobby’s best friends in the Israeli media, is on the warpath against Wes Clark. Why? Because he had the temerity to “out” the Lobby (particularly Aipac) for beating the drums for war against Iran.
Arianna Huffington got a call from Clark after he’d read a Bibi Netanyahu [...]

Shmuel Rosner has been the journalist who’s spilled the most ink covering the new initiative to create a dovish Jewish lobbying counterpart to Aipac. While he’s provided some light on the issue, much of what’s he’s written has been drivel. Take this characterization of Brit Tzedek, one of the groups participating in the [...]