My soul’s alive today. For two reasons. 1, A friend told me that she’d seen Pete Seeger out on his hill digging gravel. Pete’s 89 or something. He’s limber and alive and multifarious. And he dropped out of Harvard because…
Thanks to Haaretz for its coverage, and to B’tselem for giving video cameras to Palestinians, we learn about an Israeli soldier shooting a rubber bullet at close range at a bound Palestinian youth. The youth had been arrested for protesting…
Lately Obama has hired Dennis Ross to be his cicerone in the Middle East. This is disastrous, and one can only hope that it is a political shell game Obama is playing, to placate Jewish leadership while doing the right…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has now done what French Prez Sarkozy has done, and Obama and Bush are incapable of doing: demanding an end to the settlements. This is clear evidence, if any more is needed, of the role…
Recently, an Arab friend sent me a note written by Hassan Al-Husseini, a retired Arab-American editor who divides his time between Arlington, Va., and Saudi Arabia, explaining why he was voting for Nader. Al-Husseini expressed deep dismay in Obama’s collapse…
Yesterday’s Times printed a shockingly belligerent Op-Ed by the Israeli historian Benny Morris arguing for devastating strikes now against Iran so as to forestall an Israeli nuke strike, or better yet, nuclear war in the Middle East. Datelined Li-On, Israel,…
My wife and have 2 dogs, no kids. Our female dog got her right rear leg amputated on Tuesday. She’s 9 years old. She’s been active for years. One reason I’m crazy about her is that I went into the…
NPR is the information IV drip for the elite. I listen to it constantly. This morning WAMU, Washington, D.C.’s NPR station, broadcast a scathing commentary on the Israeli occupation from John Salzberg (John, I’m guessing you’re Jewish?) of Washington’s Interfaith…
Antony Loewensten writes of “recent stories [that] should have generated outrage in the Jewish community” and didn’t. Veterans of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle visited the West Bank in early July and were shocked by what they saw. “Even with the…