More about that 1948 t-shirt I mentioned yesterday, worn by a Palestinian protester. “I saw a number of these shirts in Deheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem,” says Michael F. Brown of Interfaith Peace-Builders, just back from a trip to Israel/Palestine….
C-Span’s Book TV, which usually pits ideological adversaries, paired up Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, with Robert Kagan, author of The Return of History. Sort of like asking the New England Patriots cheerleaders to interview…
Here is an interesting ambivalent post about Walt and Mearsheimer’s visit to Israel, by Gil Troy at an Israeli magazine. Troy begins by comparing the pair to a Rev. Ahlwardt, an antisemite who was granted an audience in N.Y. 100…
A savage video of the shooting (allegedly last Friday) of a Palestinian youth while protesting the “separation fence” in the Occupied Territories– the weekly Bilin protest, near Ramallah. The young man is shot in the right thigh, a grievous wound,…
Journalists aren’t supposed to declare a trend with just two examples but it occurred to me today that twice this spring I’ve blogged about New Republic editors who have performed services for the fearful AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs…
Zbig Brzezinski put his body down, warning Pres Bush to tell the Israelis not to try and bomb Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, because such an attack would soon engulf the U.S. in a wider and longlasting conflict. In Israel, John…
In this letter to the Economist, a British historian says that the Armenian genocide was no genocide; and that at the forefront of this understanding is Bernard Lewis, the neoconservative, and pal of Dick Cheney. Lewis, writes Norman Stone, is…
The leftwing group Gush Shalom hosted Walt and Mearsheimer in Israel. Here’s its coverage of the 48-hour trip. W&M saw the wall, are now in Dubai. Another worry that proved groundless was that the visit would be killed by silence,…
Jack Ross says I’m being paranoid about Rahm Emanuel’s influence. I think he found himself in a glorious trap of his own making – first, by being constrained by Illinois from really going to bat for Hillary, and second, to…