As a child I was obsessed, as the neoconservatives were, by being an outsider Jew. It was the strongest social feeling in my family: we weren’t allowed inside. The neocons addressed their resentment by building a “parallel establishment,” as Jacob…

In the Guardian, an Israeli minister warns that Palestinians may face a “holocaust” because of the rockets falling on Ashkelon and Sderot. Oh my god. Meantime, on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, there is this horrifying photo from Gaza of a Palestinian…