While I cover McChrystal’s nomination hearing for the Windy‘s blog — stop on by; I’ll crosspost when I have the time — check out Max Blumenthal’s Mondoweiss-sponsored video about the Israeli settler movement and its financial assists from a Florida bingo magnate.

In a similar vein, Hussein Ibish has a smart post urging the Palestinians and the broader Arab world to embrace Obama’s peace-processing stance, or risk "sav[ing] Netanyahu’s bacon (assuming it will need saving) and enabl[ing] the settlement building project and the occupation to proceed apace."