I think of Rachel Corrie, who died bravely facing down an American-made Caterpillar bulldozer in ’03
Lee Whitnum is a 48-year-old computer science teacher in Stamford, CT, who last night lost the Democratic primary in Connecticut’s 4th District to establishment candidate Jim Himes, who now will take on Republican congressman Chris Shays. The race was interesting…
These pictures of Palestinian boys shot by Israeli soldiers were taken by Doug Whitmore, a Kansas City landlord who served as a volunteer for a group called Ecumenical Accompaniment in the Occupied Territories earlier this year. Whitmore says the boys…
Ideas travel. A couple months ago I saw Jerry Haber going on about Daniel Kurtzer’s book Negotiating Middle East Peace. An amazing book, it calls for presidents to ignore the Israel lobby and have diverse negotiating teams. Well now here…
Noah Pollak has a post at Commentary magazine showing convincingly that Philip Giraldi of the American Conservative is very interested in Jews in power. I’m avoiding the words fixated or obsessed, because god knows I’m pretty interested in Jewish power…
Jerry Haber tells the (so far) tragic story of Ahmed Al Maghari, a 16-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza, who has studied English and won a fellowship from Amideast to study here (under this exchange program), then had his visa revoked…
An investigation has revealed that David Frum, author of An End to Evil but not of the Axis of Evil, has an interior decorator. “Julie.” Julie Chalabi? Julie Jabotinsky? Julie Netanyahu? Watch this space.
From Haaretz: The American-Israeli dispute over a military strike against Iran erupted during Bush’s visit to Jerusalem in May. At the time, Bush held a private meeting on the Iranian threat with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud…
I said the other day that John Edwards can’t be my poster boy for an attack on marital norms. Well, I changed my mind, he’s my poster boy. The AP is saying that his political career is finished. The other…