Here is another photo from Hebron, showing a lane in the old city. Take note of the netting over the lane. Reports M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum: But the most striking thing is the steel mesh screens that…
I love Chris Matthews, he’s a political genius. I keep saying that he’s going to talk about the Israel lobby because he talks about every other ethnicity’s role in politics with devilish pleasure, and is cynical about everyone’s motivation. But…
On his recent trip to Israel and Palestine, Christopher Varley visited the religious settlement that’s taken over Hebron, the second largest city in the West Bank, cordoning off its old downtown and forcing out the Arabs. Varley went, as I…
We don’t know Barack Obama, so his comments in S.F. about bitter working people are highly revealing. He’s an intellectual, a progressive, and yes probably an arrogant elitist, too. Not a bad mix. For the last eight years we’ve had…
I’m trying to get a Google adsense account to try and make a little money from my blog. I’ve applied twice, and been rejected twice on grounds of “Difficulty of navigation.” I wonder whether I’m submitting the wrong URL. I’ve…
I got about 60 pages into Aaron David Miller’s book, The Much Too Promised Land, a couple weeks back and registered displeasure. The next 40 pages aren’t an improvement. His book makes the claim that the close relationship between Israel…
The New York Jewish Week says that Democrats have failed so far in their efforts to pin Rev. Hagee on McCain, in the way that the rightwing has pinned Rev. Wright on Obama. Don’t give up! Americans need to understand…
The other day, Elisabeth Bumiller, a fine reporter, used the n-word on the front page of the Times, writing of neoconservative influence on McCain. Yesterday I saw her on MSNBC, speaking about neoconservatism like it was a dirty word. And…
Yesterday’s LA Times had a front-page story making a point I’ve also made: supporters of Palestinian self-determination have high hopes in Obama: Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois who expresses a firmly pro-Israel view of Middle East politics, pleasing…