Newshoggers Archive: AIPAC Won't Like This

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

AIPAC Won't Like This

Commentary By Ron Beasley

As I reported yesterday Rupert Murdoch via Bret Stephens continues to beat the drums for a war with Iran saying Israel will attack if the US doesn't. Well Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak might disagree.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak
was quoted Thursday as saying he does not view Iran as a threat to the
existence of the Jewish state, a view that would seem to depart from
Israeli statements of the recent past.
Israel's mass-circulation
Yedioth Ahronoth daily quoted Barak, the head of Israel's centre-left
Labour party, as saying "Iran does not constitute an existential threat
against Israel."
In response to a question about Tehran's nuclear
program which Israel has said it sees as destined to produce atomic
weapons that could put its existence at risk, Barak said in an
interview with the paper:
"I am not among those who believe Iran is an existential issue for Israel."
Barak
said "Israel is strong, I don't see anyone who could pose an
existential threat," although he did add that he viewed Iran as a
challenge to the whole world.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly said they view Iran's atomic development as a threat, pointing at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map, and support for groups seeking Israel's destruction.

Of course this won't silence AIPAC or the neocons but it might make their warmongering even less legitimate.

Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

AIPAC Won't Like This

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