Calendar
March 2026 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -
Recent Posts
- James McKendree Wall October 24, 2022
- WW Film of the Week: The Best of Enemies June 19, 2020
- Churches’ Role In Forming the Movie Ratings System, Plus Violence Within Our Land May 28, 2020
- Revising Gertrude Bell’s Final Journey May 23, 2020
- “Lift Every Voice” May 17, 2020
- “The Straight Story”: A Film For Now May 2, 2020
Categories
Blogs I Follow
Archives
Category Archives: Politics and Elections
Netanyahu Owns the US Congress; Soon We Will Know if He Also Owns Gaza and the UN
by James M. Wall We need look no further than the politics of the state of Israel to see what extremist religion can do with power. The Tea Party in the US, which will determine the winner of the presidential … Continue reading
A Walk On the Dark Side Of Israeli-Dominated American Politics
by James M. Wall A once largely unknown politician has been discarded as a liability by his fellow Democrats. I refer, of course, to former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, not Glenn Beck (pictured here), about whom much more later. … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
18 Comments
Congress Becomes a Mob of Mindless, Cheering Sycophants
By James M. Wall Scenes like the one above evoked veteran Jewish activist Uri Avnery to write this harsh description in his weekly Israeli-based column, Gush-Shalom: It was all rather disgusting. No one has said it better, nor with greater passion. … Continue reading
Obama Speech Mired in Zionist Rhetoric
By James M. Wall Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu returned to Washington this weekend for his annual love fest with AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is holding its annual Policy Committee meeting Sunday through Tuesday. President Obama … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
15 Comments
Netanyahu Invited To Speak to His DC Friends at a Joint Session of Congress
by James M. Wall US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking on April 12 at a dinner to open the US-Islamic World Forum, hosted by the Brookings Institution and the State of Qatar, had warm words of greeting to her … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
20 Comments
Medvedev’s Palestine-Jordan Trip Promoted Religion And Independence
by James M. Wall When Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev arrived in Jericho, Palestine, last week, he was received by an honor guard and by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Medvedev came to Palestine to reaffirm his country’s support for a … Continue reading Continue reading
Fox News, Fear Peddlers and Falsehoods Reshape Congress
by James M. Wall Politicians, pollsters, media and pundits would have us believe “the economy and taxes” were the burning issues in our late, unlamented midterm elections. Don’t believe it. A 30 second campaign ad (shown below) was used by a winning … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
11 Comments
Zionism’s ZOA Pushes to Make All Campus Criticism of Israel Illegal
by James M. Wall What effect will Tuesday’s midterm elections have on US-Israel relations? Let us count the ways, starting with the impact of the 1964 Civil Rights Act on American college and university campuses. A new and much more … Continue reading
Carter’s “White House Diary” Should Resonate With Obama
by James M. Wall Jimmy Carter kept a diary during his White House years. His original diary notes and dictated daily personal observations were later typed by his personal secretary (Susan Clough) and filed in large binders. In February, 1981, … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
6 Comments
Obama’s Plea for Peace Fails as Israel Continues to Build
by James M. Wall Middle East peace talks were doomed to fail the moment President Obama finished speaking to the United Nations General Assembly. The President’s plea for peace was undercut by a speech that reveals what Professor Lawrence Davidson … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East Politics, Politics and Elections
7 Comments
Wallwritings 