Monthly Archives:

January 23 2009

3 it could happen here

January 8 2009

12 Lebanon rocket attack was inevitable…

January 23 2009

1 An agonizing Gaza story with an American angle, left untouched by our media

January 8 2009

9 conspiracy theory or just conspiracy

January 23 2009

37 Finally! – A rabbinical statement on Gaza

January 8 2009

4 ‘House and Senate compete to be more [slavishly] pro-Israel’

January 23 2009

12 How the Israel lobby shot itself in the foot on Dennis Ross’s elevation

January 8 2009

2 New media hope

January 23 2009

1 Giving Obama room to maneuver, ‘Washington Post’ editor slams Israeli government’s ‘dodges’

January 8 2009

7 4 small children left with their mothers’ corpses for 4 days 4 small children left with their mothers’ corpses for 4 days

January 23 2009

6 Austin, Texas: ‘the movement is growing’

January 8 2009

5 NYT: ‘Nakba’ made Gaza

January 23 2009

9 Obama parks peace-processor Ross in the portico

January 8 2009

2 We’ve taken the bridge

January 23 2009

10 Memo to Foxman

January 8 2009

4 Dual loyalty alert: Israeli Embassy believed to be coordinating U.S. Jewish leaders’ attacks on it

January 23 2009

29 Oh we had larks when we was takin on the Israel lobby!!

January 8 2009

7 Your Israel lobby at work

January 23 2009

6 This is the first movie star I’ve heard sticking his neck out

January 8 2009

1 Time Magazine: ‘Why Israel Can’t Win’

January 23 2009

7 Barcelona says, ‘No holocaust memorial amid Palestinian holocaust’

January 8 2009

3 Voice in the wilderness, Dennis Kucinich

January 22 2009

10 Resigned to hope!

January 8 2009

11 Hamas is executing suspected collaborators

January 22 2009

3 ‘Al-Jazeera’ reporter Mike Hanna recalls passion of Edward R. Murrow

January 8 2009

1 never would have intermarried if I’d known about this

January 22 2009

9 Foxman likens Palestinians to Nazi–and Mitchell to Switzerland!

January 8 2009

1 NYT’s Cohen ‘shamed’ by Israel’s actions

January 22 2009

16 Obama signals evenhandedness

January 8 2009

1 Pastor Warren’s foreign policy ideas are equally disturbing (and unmentioned)

January 22 2009

4 How AIPAC builds its network among aspiring pols

January 8 2009

5 Al Jazeera covers the attacks on northern Israel

January 22 2009

7 Gaza has depressed and radicalized Sari Nusseibeh

January 8 2009

2 Bloomberg shoe’d

January 22 2009

4 ‘Forbes’ Misspells Minuscule

January 8 2009

2 dark night of the soul for another American Jew’s identity

January 22 2009

2 Tale of a family split between Israel and Gaza, and now dismembered

January 8 2009

0 Not in our name!

January 22 2009

27 Why Mohammad wore his Star of David to Norman Finkelstein’s lecture

January 8 2009

24

January 22 2009

6 2 Israel jokes show that time is up for Israel lobby

January 7 2009

25 Eliot Engel: ‘I don’t know what disproportionate means’

January 22 2009

14 Transnational Arab jihadist who helped foster Al Qaida was influenced by… Zionists

January 7 2009

16 Antizionism on the march: Oakland teachers call for binational secular state

January 22 2009

8 Gaza images remind ‘The Times’ Kimmelman of the Holocaust

January 7 2009

6 Significance of ‘Joe the Plumber’ Middle East assignment

January 22 2009

4 Having achieved nothing but slaughter and elevating Hamas, the Israeli political backlash now begins

January 7 2009

14 Significance of Roland Burris’s (inevitable) elevation

January 22 2009

8 CAIR alleges civilian executions in Gaza

January 7 2009

47 My joking about Arab names is racist

January 22 2009

7 ‘American Zionist extremists are headed the way of the Klan’

January 7 2009

23 Bromwich on Friedman

January 22 2009

9 ‘The Times’ awards its once-every-4-years slot for the one-state argument to a weak advocate

January 7 2009

25 Answering the ‘are you now or have you ever been a Zionist’ question

January 22 2009

9 Informal poll: 2-to-1, talk to Hamas

January 7 2009

13 Headsup, Marty Peretz! Another young anguished Jewish blogger breaks silence on ‘brutal’ attack

January 22 2009

20 Lather, rinse, repeat

January 7 2009

4 Joe the Plumber going to Israel

January 22 2009

23 Several important writers declare that Israel is committing ‘suicide’

January 7 2009

17 Dispossession, Dispossession, Dialogue, Dispossession

January 22 2009

9 The ‘New York Review of Books’ failure on Gaza

January 7 2009

34 (Oy) Obama chooses 3 Jews as Middle East envoys

January 22 2009

5 Translating ‘Hasbara’ in the NYT (this is a funny post)

January 7 2009

7 Memo to Obama: Sarkozy is upstaging US leaders as a moral actor

January 22 2009

7 Do Blankfort’s views scorch your eyeballs?

January 7 2009

5 Zionists use the violence to revive ’48 model: ethnic cleansing

January 22 2009

4 Livni said to fear prosecution!

January 7 2009

8 Note on this blog’s progress in the blogosphere

January 22 2009

2 Even in Berkeley

January 7 2009

6 Bush discriminates in favor of Jews in Holocaust memorial appointments

January 22 2009

0 Arab journalism is the big winner of Gaza

January 7 2009

2 On ’60 Minutes’– sorry, make that ‘Al-Jazeera’– Netanyahu’s brave nephew quotes Goering as the role model of ‘unjust’ warriors

January 22 2009

1 Gaza rage in Turkey

January 7 2009

11 Mothers dont let your children grow up to be A-rabs

January 21 2009

5 Questions abound about the NYT’s Mexican stakeholder

January 7 2009

8 ‘But Dad, why did respectable people say nothing when it was happening?’

January 21 2009

9 Groundswell

January 7 2009

11 What’s Israel hiding?

January 21 2009

2 What are the effects of white phosphorus on Israeli hearts and minds, let alone Arab ones?

January 6 2009

15 Daniel Levy says, if we occupied Canada for 40 years, they’d be firing rockets at us

January 21 2009

10 Jews who shut down consulate over Gaza invoke freedom riders of civil rights movement

January 6 2009

8 Israel wouldn’t bomb terrorists in Jewish neighborhoods

January 21 2009

22 Compassion for Dershowitz and his assistant

January 6 2009

6 ‘If an Israeli woman had lost five daughters in a Palestinian attack, would Washington Post balance that image?’

January 21 2009

1 Take a look at

January 6 2009

5 60 members of one family said to have been killed

January 21 2009

9 Dershowitz’s floor at Harvard Law School is evacuated following delivery of suspicious white powder

January 6 2009

5 Israel’s amen corner, in the White House?

January 21 2009

5 Advice for Mitchell: Palestinians need support, Israel needs to be stopped

January 6 2009

10 ethnocentricism of Jewish leadership

January 21 2009

7 Obama’s next race speech?

January 6 2009

25 Brave Norwegian doctor: ‘we shouldn’t call ourselves decent if we don’t act to stop this’

January 21 2009

8 Foxman says we don’t want ‘fairness’ in the Middle East

January 6 2009

33 CNN’s brave Sanchez says Israel broke truce in November

January 21 2009

1 Israel won’t release the names and pictures of battalion commanders who so distinguished themselves lately

January 6 2009

15 Slaughter makes the ‘war on terror’ go round

January 21 2009

4 I’d rather be a lamppost in England than a member of Congress

January 6 2009

3 Remember the Nasrallah posters in Lebanon ’06?

January 21 2009

11 ‘To be a Jewish artist means to avoid depicting the horrors inflicted on Palestine’

January 6 2009

8 Tiananmen-tank-like showdown

January 21 2009

22 How long can MSM hold out against the savage poetry of citizen journalists?

January 6 2009

16 Nowhere to run (350 Gazans gathered at school hit by airstrike)

January 21 2009

13 Mohammad on Obama’s iconic reality

January 6 2009

3 2 journalists arrested by Israeli police for reporting on ground offensive

January 21 2009

8 Neocons will be talking up the greatness of the Iraq war forever, huddled in caves

January 6 2009

3 ‘National Journal’ expert: Gaza ought to break ‘taboo’ on discussing Israel lobby

January 21 2009

7 Has email replaced the telephone call in business/life?

January 6 2009

5 Gaza! Extra! Read all about it! (on the internet that is)

January 20 2009

13 I was wrong about Obama’s speech, and Jack Ross is right

January 6 2009

14 Burning car rams synagogue in France

January 20 2009

8 The liberating effect of Obama’s inauguration will inevitably resonate to the Middle East

January 6 2009

13 Jon Stewart said to be bolshy, and b**lsy, re Gaza last night

January 20 2009

1 Our long national neoconservative is over

January 6 2009

3 ‘Times’ doubts Israel’s claim that civilian targets housed rockets

January 20 2009

9 Oracular Obama spends a bit of political capital on the post-tribal future

January 6 2009

3 Wallace Shawn, truly: Gaza endangers the future of the Jews

January 20 2009

12 Gaza was ‘a high-tech military pogrom’

January 6 2009

7 ‘New Yorker”s silence is further evidence that establishment opinion is paralyzed by Gaza

January 20 2009

16 Hitting the ground rerunning, Obama issues disappointing language on Israel/Palestine

January 5 2009

44 12 children killed in Gaza Monday. Or 20

January 20 2009

1 ‘NYT’ hints that Israel lobby’s stranglehold is lessening

January 5 2009

19 When 3 is larger than 550

January 20 2009

1 get thee behind me, neocon

January 5 2009

15 U.S. Army War College says Hamas has been ‘villainized’

January 20 2009

4 Impose a solution

January 5 2009

14 My problem with Jewish elite status: Howard Fineman says that McCain served in ‘army’

January 20 2009

4 For ruined Palestinians, Hamas leaps up in prestige

January 5 2009

20 a beautiful thing might finally be happening (debate)

January 20 2009

3 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

January 5 2009

20 White phosphorus, ‘terror weapon’

January 20 2009

31 Mohammad answers a challenge about his use of the word ‘genocide’ for Gaza

January 5 2009

6 Scheuer: Israel needs suicide bombers to commit Obama to Israel’s religious war

January 20 2009

19 Let us now commemorate the Tragedy of George the Second

January 5 2009

7 Can you imagine ‘The New Republic’ running articles written by Dana Perino?

January 20 2009

9 In their own words

January 5 2009

9 Zeitgeist alert: no fanatics on ‘Foreign Policy’ blog

January 20 2009

5 Has a Jewish congressman ever even mildly criticized Israel?

January 5 2009

3 binational effort in Israel launched to document harm to civilians

January 20 2009

7 The Emperor’s Clothes

January 5 2009

5 Organized Jewish community seems crouched, fearful over p.r. disaster

January 20 2009

0 Lullaby for Israeli pilots–Numu numu

January 5 2009

12 Maybe it’s time for ‘J Street’ to get creative and reach outside a blindered community

January 19 2009

38 How will the war in Gaza be remembered?

January 5 2009

21 When will ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’ speak out for human rights in Gaza?

January 19 2009

6 Mohammad’s 5 ways to help Palestinians post Gaza

January 5 2009

6 More independent Jews speak out against slaughter (1 o’clock press conference, Union Square)

January 19 2009

3 Colin Powell celebrates Obama’s Muslim roots

January 5 2009

17 ‘It is crucial that Jews speak out and denounce Israel’s actions’

January 19 2009

15 Walt: US refusal to second-guess Israel has led it to make many bad strategic decisions

January 5 2009

11 Israel using Facebook robot to counter int’l protest

January 18 2009

50 How it feels to be inside an insurgent political movement

January 5 2009

5 The Arab is… restrained

January 18 2009

46 After pregnant pause, Bono celebrates ‘Palestinian dream’ at Lincoln Memorial event for Obama

January 5 2009

5 Gaza is the exile of the neocons

January 18 2009

32 The ‘Times’ attacks this blog, and finally offers El-Khodary without filters to its readers

January 5 2009

2 More children killed as war on Gaza continues

January 18 2009

8 ‘He did not rally to the banner of race. He did not sink himself in his community’

January 5 2009

2 will Obama too prove to be a ‘eunuch-ruler’?

January 18 2009

13 The civil war between western Jews over Zionism

January 5 2009

10 Steve Walt becomes a blogger at… ‘Foreign Policy’!

January 18 2009

13 ‘The only road left’

January 5 2009

16 Legacy of Indian wars stops many guilty Americans from condemning Israel

January 18 2009

6 UN official who was in Rwanda and Balkans says Gaza is most disturbing

January 5 2009

41

January 18 2009

25 The case of the Israel lobby and the good Norwegian doctor

January 4 2009

8 Only eight foreign journalists allowed to cover the war in Gaza

January 18 2009

5 ‘Lesser figure than Moyers would be blacklisted…’

January 4 2009

11 ‘the last silly gasp of Jewish nationalism in America’

January 18 2009

4 Avnery: ‘billions of people have now seen us as a blood-dripping monster’

January 4 2009

8 Madoff burned suburban N.Y. Carpenters Union too

January 18 2009

6 The sea change, continued: ‘Hertz’ wants out of Israel solidarity promotion in England

January 4 2009

5 Obama’s silence begins to seem aloof/bought given the urgency of the American street

January 18 2009

10 The Palestinians, in Israeli officials’ own words

January 4 2009

21 Once more into the breech, Michael Oren!

January 18 2009

28 American reporters at Livni presser seem more critical than American public

January 4 2009

6 genocide?

January 18 2009

7 Israel has detained 700 Israelis

January 4 2009

20 A new Nakba

January 17 2009

13 Q. Israeli belligerence in ’67 began over what? (A. Blockade)

January 4 2009

6 2 more Warsaw Ghetto analogies, from the left

January 17 2009

11 Gaza’s toll in Israel: ‘the damaged souls of our sons and daughters’

January 4 2009

9 The latest from the ‘premier Jewish media outlet for progressive free-thinkers’

January 17 2009

7 Israel lobbyists say, Don’t talk about the Israel lobby!

January 4 2009

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January 17 2009

6 Reality check: the Arab silence

January 4 2009

9 Civil war? ‘Jerusalem Post’ attacks lox-and-bagel Jews for opposing Gaza slaughter

January 17 2009

6 Obama’s Cheney

January 4 2009

5 ‘J Street’ refuses to cave to the forces of reaction

January 17 2009

18 Avishai: Gaza is Israel’s war against the idea of democracy

January 4 2009

4 In their own words, revisted

January 17 2009

11 ‘The Palestinian doctor spoke in Hebrew–except when he called to God’

January 4 2009

11 Ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza?

January 17 2009

5

January 4 2009

7 In their own words

January 17 2009

4 ‘I do not call my family, they don’t call me’ (The Jewish crisis of Gaza)

January 4 2009

29 The best American analogy for Hamas is militant blacks in U.S. ghettoes in 70s

January 17 2009

2 At Yivo, ‘Iraq: A Jewish Reckoning’ or, ‘Gaza: A Jewish Reckoning’?

January 4 2009

8 Jack Ross also wants Dan Radosh to take on his neocon father over Israel

January 17 2009

3 6 of 7 killed were civilians, says Palestinian human-rights group

January 4 2009

16 The American Establishment realizes Israel is wrong but is afraid to say so

January 17 2009

11 AWOL on Gaza, liberal American Jewish tradition will never be the same

January 4 2009

50 Lebanon 2006 redux

January 16 2009

25 ‘The Israeli government has ruthlessly and cynically exploited the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as a justification for the murder of Palestinians’

January 4 2009

10 Daniel Radosh should fight with his father Ron Radosh about ‘J Street’ now

January 16 2009

29 Israel finally comes face to face with Gaza

January 4 2009

10 Anti-Zionist Jews are issuing a clarion call to leftleaning gentiles– Speak out with us!

January 16 2009

1 Daniel Pipes discovers the Turkish Islamist peril

January 4 2009

4 ‘J Street’ is the salient! Another attack from the ‘liberals’

January 16 2009

3 On a donkey cart in Gaza, a boy shakes his fist at the jets

January 4 2009

21 It’s not all bad news

January 16 2009

4 How Elliott Abrams ignored Hamas’s overtures

January 3 2009

16

January 16 2009

10 The American center wakes up (Moyers says the world reels at ‘Dante’s inferno’)

January 3 2009

4 ‘Times’ prints the word ‘massacre.’ Twice!

January 16 2009

8 Reporter calls Livni a ‘terrorist’ at National Press Club

January 3 2009

5 Mearsheimer: Like Bush and Clinton before him, Obama will fail at creating a viable Palestinian state

17 AIPAC likens Hamas to Osama bin Laden

January 16 2009

31 The boycott begins to bite

January 3 2009

23 ‘Times’ is newspaper of record for… Israel?

January 16 2009

3 When the Israeli government loved Hamas

January 3 2009

15 More evidence that Israel has lost the p.r. battle

January 16 2009

4 ‘American Conservative’ builds new coalition of realists and lefties

January 3 2009

5 In their own words (threat of radical Islam)

January 16 2009

9 ‘Times’ stringer El-Khodary’s searing reports from Gaza appear on ‘Al-Jazeera,’ not in the ‘Times’

January 3 2009

7 Israel’s existential threat from Israel

January 16 2009

1 Obama listens to Power. Who does Power listen to?

January 3 2009

1 bread and water shortages

January 16 2009

3 Neocons nakedly redefine themselves as ‘supporters of the American-Israel alliance’

January 3 2009

8 Destroying Gaza as a compensation for failure against Hizbollah

January 16 2009

5 ‘Why do they hate us?’

January 3 2009

12 How can we blame them if they blame the Jews?

January 16 2009

1 Israel’s ‘best friend in Muslim world’ urges its suspension from U.N.

January 3 2009

13 Hamas had offered a continuation of truce

January 16 2009

15 West Side Highway is battleground in the Jewish civil war

January 3 2009

24 New Year’s Resolution

January 16 2009

7 Mahmoud Darwish: ‘The invader fears his memories…’

January 3 2009

6 Bosnia! Kosovo! Darfur!

January 16 2009

24 Jeffrey Goldberg’s Jewish paranoia

January 3 2009

4 Times’s Bronner describes ‘unspeakable suffering’ of Israeli assault

January 16 2009

6 Klug: ‘My rabbis did not teach me to bombard a trapped, impoverished, defenseless people’

January 3 2009

3 ‘Gaza is in our hearts’

January 16 2009

4 The ‘Times’ has an Orwell moment on Gazan slaughter

January 3 2009

1 the global expectations for Nicholas Kristof

January 16 2009

4 Important difference between Gaza and Fallujah

January 3 2009

5 UN count of civilians killed in Gaza excluded all dead men

January 16 2009

16 In their own words

January 3 2009

22 Amazing Brit Tzedek rabbi says half of Gaza victims are civilians and anticipates the breakup of the Jewish ‘family’

January 16 2009

2 ‘Haaretz’ urges Obama to ignore the ‘Israeli patriots’ of Washington, D.C.

January 3 2009

37 Official Israeli video footage on youtube depicts an apparent atrocity

January 15 2009

10 after police cut the locks at Israeli consulate in San Francisco: ‘We’ll be back!!’

January 3 2009

5 Silverstein says Reform’s top rabbi is ‘redbaiting’ J Street

January 15 2009

0 ‘There’s actually a huge growing number of Jewish youth that are sickened by Israel…’

January 3 2009

16 Obama’s W. Bush is Non-W

January 15 2009

6 Israel to 2-State Solution: Drop Dead!

January 2 2009

25 Standing up for ‘J Street’

January 15 2009

10 American Jews start petition against ‘carnage’

January 2 2009

29 Zionist ‘left’ can’t condemn the slaughter

January 15 2009

6 ‘I was raised by militant Zionists’ (breaking up the Jewish family)

January 2 2009

20 This time it’s personal

January 15 2009

15 Oh to be young and unconscious– as Gaza bleeds

January 2 2009

15 IDF admits exaggerating threat of Gaza rockets

January 15 2009

3 In moderate Egypt and Jordan, they vow resistance

January 2 2009

21 CNN reporter breaks taboo in sharp criticism of Israel

January 15 2009

10 AIPAC should invite Walt and Mearsheimer to a debate at its spring policy conference

January 2 2009

26 In their own words (Dershowitz)

January 15 2009

14 Take a moment of silence today in your busy

January 2 2009

11 How long can this Orthodoxy last? Both ‘Times’ op-eds are by Israelis, ‘Washington Post’ provides CPR to neocons

January 15 2009

14 egging on the slaughter from lawn chairs in Israel

January 2 2009

13 most moral military in the world

January 15 2009

45 boy cries wolf

January 2 2009

1 Horowitz beards Dershowitz

January 15 2009

16 Neoconservatives have Obama for dinner

January 2 2009

3 ‘Diaspora Jews more critical of Israel than ever’ (only in Haaretz, of course)

January 15 2009

12 Blind support for Israel is putting our children at risk from Islamic terrorism

January 2 2009

3 Israel’s undemocratic response to war protesters

January 15 2009

9 Zionism jailbreak

January 2 2009

3 The Jewish family fights publicly over Gaza

January 15 2009

32

January 2 2009

11 the yawning gap between Democratic leadership and Obama’s progressive base

January 31 2009

51 How can Dennis Ross be effective after chairing Israeli institute that called for ‘bringing Ahmadinejad to justice’?

January 15 2009

11 Actually, Iran wants little to do with Hamas

January 2 2009

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January 31 2009

43 Why is Hillary’s right hand at State investing $50-100,000 in Israel bonds?

January 15 2009

8 The moderate Muslims who get lionized for their views on Israel

January 2 2009

4 another back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

January 31 2009

50 ‘Informal, vague, unspoken–and immense’ (the Israel lobby)

January 15 2009

7 Israel lobby makes ‘castrated cattle’ of our Congress

January 2 2009

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January 31 2009

13 Dual loyalty issue said to damage Ross bid to honcho Iran portfolio

January 15 2009

6 i need a better moniker than ‘desk warrior,’ maybe thinktank warrior or toy soldiers or neocon grunts

January 2 2009

6 Vermont Jew breaks personal taboo and decries Gaza as Warsaw Ghetto (Gaza effect in U.S. is still subterranean but Huge)

January 31 2009

40 Sign of the times

January 15 2009

8 Turkish P.M. ‘curses’ his former crush

January 2 2009

3 The death of writing

January 31 2009

12 Erdogan warns Obama: ‘We expect justice from now on’

January 15 2009

8 Chomsky calls Israel ‘bloodstained monster’

January 2 2009

15 I like the China/Tibet analogy

January 31 2009

10 ‘J Street’ finds a wedge issue, AIPAC loses influence

January 15 2009

5 desk warriors

January 2 2009

15 On Gaza, MSM blows out the moral lights, while the internet dins in our ears

January 31 2009

9 Somebody with a ‘sense of victimization, siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization’ needs help

January 14 2009

25 The diplomatic backlash begins

January 2 2009

2 Obambiguity

January 31 2009

11 Internet is driving the ‘sea change’ in American response to Israel/Palestine

January 14 2009

50 Friedman and Goldberg play ‘good cop/bad cop’ in the ‘New York Times’

January 2 2009

11 another back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

January 31 2009

1 Would ‘Washington Post’ writer David Ignatius put his arm on President Obama during a debate?

January 14 2009

8 These times demand the ‘Times’!

January 1 2009

20 2 more back-of-the-envelope descriptions of Zionism

January 31 2009

7 Many wish that Obama had chosen ‘Al-Jazeera’ over ‘Al Arabiya’

January 14 2009

7 Censorship: Al-Jazeera’s exclusive coverage is available in Israel, limited here

January 1 2009

41 My back-of-the-envelope description of Zionism

January 30 2009

50 Secret database shows Israeli government to be active partner in settlement landgrab

January 14 2009

16 after I fix Zionism, I’m going to take on marriage

January 1 2009

25 Was I establishing a Jewish quota for ‘Meet the Press’?

January 30 2009

3 Iraq/Gaza… Ignatius/Peres

January 14 2009

2 That hoax last week was actually a religious vision. OK

January 30 2009

8 Chomsky ally differs sharply with him over Israel lobby

January 14 2009

1 the 2-state solution died, and then we loved it

January 30 2009

2 In their own words

January 14 2009

1 ‘Ehud Olmert’s phone number’

January 30 2009

13 Some are cynical about the 2-state solution. Why?

January 14 2009

2 Barack, don’t be like Ike

January 30 2009

25 Debating Davos: Preening, monstrosity, or punctilio?

January 13 2009

31 Another horrifying legacy of Iraq war: Now Israel gets to do war crimes

January 30 2009

24 The lobby is losing – Rep. Rothman can’t find co-sponsors for his anti-UNRWA attack

January 13 2009

8 Influential voice weighs in: Cordesman says assault is ‘misguided’

January 30 2009

48 One American’s awakening: ‘I was 7 when they punched my grandfather in the face, and none of the men in my family dared say anything’

January 13 2009

13 ‘Israel’s image in the world has been destroyed’

January 30 2009

37 One journalist’s awakening

January 13 2009

25 Adam Shapiro, who will speak tonight in NY, is subject of extremist death threat

January 30 2009

12 Dear Abe Foxman, ‘The knock on the door is coming, it’s time to go!’

January 13 2009

10 Avigdor Lieberman talks about using nukes on Gaza

January 30 2009

36 Gaza’s threat to American Jewish belief

January 13 2009

5 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

January 30 2009

3 Translating Israeli leaders

January 13 2009

12 Brits have no trouble talking about elephant in the room

January 30 2009

3 Who lost Turkey?

January 13 2009

10 Israeli soldiers reportedly shot woman waving white flag

January 30 2009

12 At a leftwing NY bookstore, a very pan-global vibe for Gaza

January 13 2009

37 In the unhealed Jewish heart, Arabs became Nazis

January 30 2009

42 Democracy lesson: As soon as you agree with me that Hamas is your enemy, we will stop bombing you

January 13 2009

2 MSM gets bolshy

January 30 2009

10 80 US academics said to endorse boycott, defying ‘intimidation’ by lobby

January 13 2009

6 ‘In the name of humanity!’ Israeli atrocities are pummeled on British television

January 29 2009

20 Israel’s ally: Turkish Prime Minister walks out on Shimon Peres at Davos

January 13 2009

1 ‘Everything we’ve seen so far will seem child’s play’ –leading Israeli newspaper

January 29 2009

50 How the Israel lobby flexed its muscle to destroy New Jersey freeholder candidacy of a Lebanese-American who had expressed sympathy for Palestinians

January 13 2009

0 Tony Kushner: It is immensely important for Jews of conscience not to remain silent under pressure from the Jewish community

January 29 2009

13 ‘Peace Now’ should resign from membership in neoconservative Conference

January 13 2009

6 Clinton says Palestinian injustice is feeding ‘alienation and extremism’ across region

January 29 2009

36 AC accuses me of deluded optimism in my belief in the ‘sea change’

January 13 2009

1 Destroying Gaza to save it

January 29 2009

27 The journey of one congressman who finally spoke out for Palestine

January 13 2009

1 In her prepared answers, Hillary was just More of the Same

January 29 2009

13 Carter describes ‘political suicide’ of criticizing Israel

January 13 2009

15 Drop everything: Max Blumenthal exposes the Jewish crazies in New York

January 29 2009

10 Israel manhandles Europeans at border. Kerfuffle. Double standard

January 13 2009

6 How many U.S. politicians have denounced the ‘shame on the Jewish people’ of Gaza?

January 29 2009

21 Israel’s image in retreat (Report: Israelis shot children holding white flags)

January 13 2009

16 In their own words

January 28 2009

30 Carter says U.S. Presidential envoys have been ‘professional lobbyists for Israel’

January 13 2009

12 ‘Killing children is a matter of politics’

January 28 2009

30 things are tough all over. really

January 13 2009

15 Where is Hillary on cease-fire?

January 28 2009

18 Terry Gross interviewed Times’ Ethan Bronner yesterday…

January 12 2009

5 An antidote to the US media

January 28 2009

6 A moving song about Gaza

January 12 2009

5 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

January 28 2009

15 World writers urge American writers to admit, Israel is South Africa Redux

January 12 2009

8 In their own words

January 28 2009

17 Hark, Obama: ‘For the last 30 years the most important issue of my life has been peace in the holy land’ (Jimmy Carter)

January 12 2009

5 Hamas terms for ‘long-term truce’ are similar to UN Human Rights Council’s

January 28 2009

50 ‘Palestine is the door to the Muslim world’

January 12 2009

4 Israeli settler invited to Inaugural

January 28 2009

38 I guess 60 congressmen for Gaza is a beachhead

January 12 2009

17 Scenes from the ‘new Nakba’

January 28 2009

15 Let the harassment of ’60 Minutes’ begin!

January 12 2009

7 tail wags Security Council

January 28 2009

7 i heart gaza

January 12 2009

0 Dennis Ross could be ‘Elliott Abrams of Obama administration’

January 28 2009

24 Is there any difference between Mark Green and Marty Peretz on Israel/Palestine?

January 12 2009

0 Jon Stewart’s ‘soul-crushing’ rap on Palestinians becomes line in the sand

January 28 2009

33 Fleshler: Once again, Israel misled its American Jewish supporters about its aims

January 12 2009

3 250 Palestinian children killed, says British Foreign Minister

January 28 2009

18 Carter says he could throw a grenade over the ‘separation wall’ in most places

January 12 2009

19 Post Muslim (Mohammad’s confession)

January 28 2009

30 In their own words

January 12 2009

7 The American sea-change is finally happening

January 28 2009

4 Are Team Israel and Team Obama set for first confrontation?

January 12 2009

21 Only democracy in the Middle East

January 28 2009

10 Mohammad of Vancouver: What does it mean when states acknowledge the use of torture?

January 12 2009

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January 28 2009

10 The banality of weasel

January 12 2009

27 What I would have done

January 27 2009

50 ’19-year-old children hold guns pointed at the heads of 5-year-old children’

January 12 2009

4 In ’82, Sen. Adlai Stevenson’s career was broken for opposing wicked settlements

January 27 2009

5 Afghan gov’t worker vows to be suicide bomber

January 12 2009

7 Independent: ‘How Israel gets away with murder’

January 27 2009

8 IRA=Hamas analogy wins endorsement of Abunimah, Hawking, & Levy

January 12 2009

3 it’s just so complicated…

January 27 2009

43 Ali Abunimah accuses flagship progressives of ignoring Palestine

January 12 2009

0 Internet etiquette: bloggers on same publication criticize one another

January 27 2009

22 ‘We are farmers. We are not resistance’ And 29 were killed. (Journalism lives again)

January 12 2009

17 ‘Al-Jazeera English’ is censored in US

January 27 2009

21 An old man in Brighton Beach, or al-Qaeda warrior–it’s an accident of birth

January 12 2009

15 2 biggest enemies in U.S. politics come together, laughing, over Gaza

January 27 2009

13 Jon Stewart continues to spend political capital

January 12 2009

2 Dennis Ross’s ‘messy and difficult’ peace process produced zilch for you know who

January 27 2009

8 Contiguous ambiguous

January 12 2009

8 Human Rights Watch says burning phosphorus used in civilian areas

January 27 2009

21 From Warsaw to Gaza: International Holocaust Memorial Day 2009

January 12 2009

8 Blankfort: Why did Israel break truce on our Election Night?

January 27 2009

1 Who is the ‘tirelessly unsuccessful Mideast negotiator’?

January 12 2009

4 Pardon my career

January 27 2009

10 I’ve got you… under my skin

January 12 2009

3 AP scants numbers at pro-Palestinian demo

January 27 2009

13 Obama embraces his Muslim roots, 7 months after saying he was formed by Jews

January 11 2009

18 Sans-Zionism

January 27 2009

43 The skyscraper and the ant, a modern fable

January 11 2009

14 Chomsky to speak on Gaza

January 27 2009

4 Rabbi Shai Gluskin on the rabbinical statement on Gaza – ‘We are learning. We aren’t going away.’

January 11 2009

6 IHT’s Roger Cohen says Obama’s team shouldn’t be all-Jewish

January 27 2009

48 Anti-Zionism gets its nose under the tent of the mainstream media

January 11 2009

3 Israel now excuses war crime as a ‘malfunction’

January 26 2009

37 Gaza hospitals overwhelmed by care needs of children shot in the head

January 11 2009

3 Memo to neocons: Democrats won the last election

January 26 2009

9 US academic boycott movement gets started while Israeli profs try to keep a war criminal off campus

January 11 2009

4 trivializing murder at pro-Israel demonstration

January 26 2009

15 2 theories to explain why BBC refused to run humanitarian appeal for Gaza’s children

January 11 2009

7 McKinney says Gaza slaughter is ‘reaching deep into U.S. heartland’

January 26 2009

16 For people who believe Israel stopped occupying Gaza in 2005

January 11 2009

1 Jabotinskyite site publishes racist, anti-Muslim attack on ‘J Street’

January 26 2009

49 ‘Rabbis Speak Out’ on Gaza stop speaking out on Gaza (with an update)

January 11 2009

14 I believe Hamas uses civilians as human shields

January 26 2009

18 Egad–George Mitchell said to skip Gaza on first Middle East trip!

January 11 2009

4 Israeli Palestinian party that seeks democracy for all citizens risks disqualification

January 26 2009

27 Arab world’s response to Gaza a ‘total disgrace’–Finkelstein in Bahrain

January 11 2009

2 Another appeal to Obama not to name Dennis Ross envoy

January 26 2009

10 Your tax dollars at work

January 11 2009

19 At NY demonstration, grief, rage, and impotence

January 26 2009

23 Gushing over Bob Simon–but did he let Livni off the hook?

January 10 2009

43 Gaza slaughter is ennobling Hamas

January 26 2009

12 ‘Israeli army rabbis sound racist’–Haaretz

January 10 2009

50 My wife is post-Zionist. Jack Ross isn’t

January 26 2009

11 Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb, Obama

January 10 2009

7 Even a broken watch is right once a day

January 26 2009

4 ‘This is William Kristol’s last column’

January 10 2009

12 Another American veteran with a jaundiced view of the special relationship

January 26 2009

50 ’60 Minutes’ gives Israel 3 options: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, or democracy

January 10 2009

15 ‘Obama– don’t be a slave to AIPAC,’ Israeli veteran pleads

January 26 2009

10 ‘Youtube is lessening anti-Jewish feeling in the Muslim world’

January 10 2009

36 Iraq veteran: We never responded in such a brutal, vengeful and dishonorable manner

January 26 2009

9 How the Australian papers defer to Israel

January 10 2009

16 Shocker! Congress does not reflect people’s opposition to Gaza assault

January 26 2009

38 A little more about ’60 Minutes’ stunning piece

January 10 2009

13 monolith is over

January 26 2009

3 English celebrities are up in arms, American celebs are armless

January 10 2009

27 I’m gonna wave my freak flag high (why I say I’m an ‘Anti-Zionist,’ not a ‘Post-Zionist’)

January 25 2009

34 Gaza slaughter demeans its defenders

January 10 2009

10 Blacklist 2009: Jewish professional fears criticizing Israel because it could hurt her business

January 25 2009

27 end of the 2-state solution has good smart people using their imagination!

January 10 2009

9 In the ‘Wall Street Journal’! (‘Israel Is Committing War Crimes’)

January 25 2009

33 And they ask, where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

January 10 2009

25 Buchanan brings up the Nakba on MSNBC

January 25 2009

45 WSJ scoops the Times: Hamas is ‘Israel’s creation’

January 9 2009

46 Slater’s thought experiment

January 25 2009

12 All you need to know about the history of Israel/Palestine

January 9 2009

17 Jack Ross takes on Michael Walzer: just wars or nice wars?

January 25 2009

37 Jack Ross watches a documentary on neocons and understands his calling

January 9 2009

3 Perle denies neocons pushed for Iraq war, or something like that

January 25 2009

27 Update on the site

January 9 2009

0 ‘Will Israel provide the evidence that these schools were Hamas assets?’

January 25 2009

2 Will students in the U.S. start taking over college buildings?

January 9 2009

21 Did US Congress express support for democracy giving equality to only one religion?

January 25 2009

33 I could love Israel

January 9 2009

10 The bullies of solidarity (an email battle over an Israel rally at Princeton)

January 25 2009

6 Sunday funnies

January 9 2009

6 IDF officers said to admit no fire came from UN school Israel shelled, killing dozens

January 25 2009

11 Finkelstein to speak in Bahrain on Israeli aims in Gaza

January 9 2009

4 the many inefficiencies of the doorstop Times (including overpaid writers)

January 25 2009

17 Blankfort on the ‘Sophie’s Choice’ controversy

January 9 2009

3 Looks like We have been hoaxed re British Board of Deputies cancelling rally

January 25 2009

9 Bronner, if you’re going to put your cards on the table, put your cards on the table

January 9 2009

11 What would Uncle Toby say about ‘just war’ theory?

January 25 2009

6 Amnesty International says Israeli soldiers used Gaza civilians as ‘human shields’

January 9 2009

5 the best hair in the peace process industry

January 24 2009

26 M.J. Rosenberg on the ‘serious career risks’ in criticizing Israel

January 9 2009

7 Gaza is coming of age for post-Zionist bloggers, average age 26!

January 24 2009

4 Bromwich: Gitmo backlash on MSNBC

January 9 2009

12 Jewish resistance fighters also iced collaborators

January 24 2009

9 Mohammad: ‘Obama tacitly approves Gaza with missile strikes in Pakistan’

January 9 2009

6 Steve Walt answers the smears

January 24 2009

37 I should have questioned that ‘Sophie’s Choice’ report

January 9 2009

6 When’s this Chicago show comin to Broadway??

January 24 2009

8 ‘The Times’ continues to provide aid and comfort to neocons. Why?

January 9 2009

13 Gaza has brought superb Arab journalists into American homes (and Subarus) as never before

January 24 2009

4 navel-gazing while Rome burns

January 9 2009

12 ‘endless stream of Palestinians willing to die is a symptom of their condition’ –Karon

January 24 2009

17 Two Gaza narratives

January 9 2009

21 British Jewish leadership cancels rally, speaks of ‘besieged’ people of Gaza!

January 24 2009

33 From Gaza City to Kansas City: Andrea’s friend tells her she’s an anti-Semite

January 9 2009

8 Israelis use new silent gun to shoot Palestinian demonstrators in West Bank

January 24 2009

10 The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing neoconservatism of liberal Establishment Jews

January 9 2009

10 Bob Simon: Israel rejects a democracy that would be one-man, one-vote

January 24 2009

19 My entitlement issues

January 9 2009

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January 23 2009

33 Mission accomplished: Times article undermines the one-state solution

January 9 2009

22 CBS’s Bob Simon: 2-state solution is over

January 23 2009

6 ‘Financial Times’ warns Obama of worldwide jihad against Israel if Palestinian affliction doesn’t end

January 8 2009

19 The left has to accept the Israel lobby idea or we’ll get nowhere

January 23 2009

5 Haaretz says that Gaza assault was planned months ago

January 8 2009

6 Ethnocentrism, Inc: Jewish leader in ‘Forward’ calls for beheading ‘J Street”s Ben-Ami for noble Gaza stand

January 23 2009

25 Sophie’s Choice, Gaza style

January 8 2009

7 spot the American flag in this picture…

January 23 2009

2 Beyond chutzpah

January 8 2009

2 … it’s easier in this picture

January 23 2009

12 Of course you pay a price for criticizing Israel in this country

January 8 2009

14 the Irgun/Hamas moral equivalence argument

January 23 2009

2 further response to Ezra Klein on the career benefits of criticizing Israel

January 8 2009

3 When Palestinians are getting slaughtered, Reform Jews and Gov. Paterson side with Settler movement

January 23 2009

8 ‘NGO Monitor’ has endless foes in the human-rights marketplace

January 8 2009

37 Slater: NYT ‘epiphany’

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