Cosigning - ribbit! Even a frog knows you need variety in your diet. Too much emphasis on Israel/Palestine policy does seen to crowd out many other worthy topics.

I think Obama understands that we need to keep America safe and the I/P problem is and has been causing us a lot of trouble and is Israel really worth it.

They say they are our friend but what do they do for us exactly. They spy on us, they threaten war with the middle east? How does this help america. You can believe if the situation were reversed, Israel would have told us to go screw ourselves

I figure it's not my site.

I would suggest that they start an Israel page so that those who are so inclined can go there and gab to their heart's content. I never figure I'm welcome on any of the Israel threads anyway and it is a bit irritating to have to find something you are looking for way down the page.

I like a good argument about Israel as much as the next guy, so I'm in no position to complain, but I am perplexed by the growing isolationist sensibility of TPM Cafe. Israeli issues are covered, but those are in a way an extension of US politics. And that's pretty much it as far as the rest of the world is concerned. China, nothing. Russia, nothing. Latin America, nothing. Africa, nothing.

It's also a little odd that with the high volume of postings about Israel, Josh feels the need to keep bringing even more into the mix, even to the extent of cross-posting content from people who already have perfectly viable blogs of their own. My sense is that Josh has consciously sought to make TPM Cafe a kind of one-stop shop for liberal Jewish thought on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has found that strategy successful in attracting readers and advertising.

Well its a tiny country in the midst of enemies doing itself no benefit by stomping its feet on a small group of 'semites'. Oh, and it has nuclear weapons.

But the posts I read always seem to pound Israel.

I would like to read something that offers solutions. But the U.S. is not in charge.

Its a minor political issue in the US but a major foreign policy hang-up that affects virtually every other international issue on the table.

I admit that I tire of the endless strategizing and maneuvering by the "experts" as to what Bibi plans and what Abbas can't get done.

However, effectively neutralizing this issue would allow some leverage and cooperation from other countries to deal with Iran, Af-Pak, OPEC, Syria, and on and on. Sorry for the generalities but this issue touches too many problems to effectively present in my cheap paragraphs.

America's relationship with Israel or rather the perception that Israel controls that relationship entirely to its advantage and irrespective of America's interests in the Middle East and elsewhere does great damage to the United States.

As outside the USA Israel is increasingly seen as a racist, rogue state, America's unfailing support of Israel's excesses tars the USA with the same brush. Any restoration of America's prestige in the world begins with correcting this relationship.

As to Mondoweiss:

I think that Josh is doing the work of the angels in giving Phil Weiss space in TPM, thus increasing the audience for his groundbreaking work in using alternative media where the mainstream will not go.

How many other documentary reports about the shameful conditions in Gaza have you seen? Would you begrudge the people of Gaza this opportunity to communicate with the outside world?