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  • I certainly set off a firestorm with my use of the term "Israel Firster."

    MJ Rosenberg: Why the Term "Israel First" Matters MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • Kagan is a racist who looks down on “the little brown people” like the “Israel Firster” colonialist that he is.

    Wonk Room » Open Letter To Robert Kagan 2009

  • After all, his father had returned from his ambassadorship to England determined to derail President Roosevelt's re-election in the fall of 1940; Joe Jr. had become a prominent American Firster, and voted against President Roosevelt's renomination as Democratic party candidate - and Robert Kennedy even worked for Joe McCarthy.

    Nigel Hamilton: The Kennedys Nigel Hamilton 2011

  • After all, his father had returned from his ambassadorship to England determined to derail President Roosevelt's re-election in the fall of 1940; Joe Jr. had become a prominent American Firster, and voted against President Roosevelt's renomination as Democratic party candidate - and Robert Kennedy even worked for Joe McCarthy.

    Nigel Hamilton: The Kennedys Nigel Hamilton 2011

  • After all, his father had returned from his ambassadorship to England determined to derail President Roosevelt's re-election in the fall of 1940; Joe Jr. had become a prominent American Firster, and voted against President Roosevelt's renomination as Democratic party candidate - and Robert Kennedy even worked for Joe McCarthy.

    Nigel Hamilton: The Kennedys Nigel Hamilton 2011

  • First, Andrew Sullivan's short definition of an Israel Firster.

    MJ Rosenberg: Why the Term "Israel First" Matters MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • After all, his father had returned from his ambassadorship to England determined to derail President Roosevelt's re-election in the fall of 1940; Joe Jr. had become a prominent American Firster, and voted against President Roosevelt's renomination as Democratic party candidate - and Robert Kennedy even worked for Joe McCarthy.

    Nigel Hamilton: The Kennedys Nigel Hamilton 2011

  • A further contemptuous message is widely rumored to be forthcoming — the naming as “Special Envoy for Middle East Peace” of Dennis Ross, the notorious Israel-Firster who, throughout the 12 years of the Bush the First and Clinton administrations, ensured that American policy toward the Palestinians did not deviate one millimeter from Israeli policy, and that no progress toward peace could be made, and who has since headed the AIPAC spin-off “think tank” WINEP.

    09 « November « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • A further contemptuous message is widely rumored to be forthcoming — the naming as “Special Envoy for Middle East Peace” of Dennis Ross, the notorious Israel-Firster who, throughout the 12 years of the Bush the First and Clinton administrations, ensured that American policy toward the Palestinians did not deviate one millimeter from Israeli policy, and that no progress toward peace could be made, and who has since headed the AIPAC spin-off “think tank” WINEP.

    the old one two 2008

  • Obama's Israel-Firster officials and 51 influential Zionists organizations define America's counterproductive Middle East belligerency - an agenda destined to fail, yet it persists despite urgent domestic needs left unaddressed.

    Printing: Global Depression and Regional Wars - Part II 2009

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