I’m reading a magnificent book, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, and one theme in the 1961 novel is the souring, in 1956, of the promise of Communism even as its chief proponents in the west insist that it hasn’t…
Surprise: A resolution for a blockade against Iran, pushed by AIPAC, has been shelved by the House leadership as being too belligerent. Many are calling it a defeat for the Israel lobby; Jim Lobe cites “an unexpectedly strong lobbying effort…
Ralph Seliger has responded to Saif Ammous’s latest response to him re the right of return: Mr. Ammous obviously doesn’t want to come to an understanding with me. The fact that a Zionist like myself does believe in a moral…
And here is my friend Steve F. on the right of return: There is clearly an analogy between the ethnic cleansing of some Palestinians who left Israel in 1948 and the Jews of the Arab world forced out of their…
The NYT has a great piece of reporting by Isabel Kershner on radicalized settlers and the war they promise inside Israeli society over withdrawal from the West Bank. The piece begins with the Sternhell pipebomb attack in Jerusalem. Kershner’s fundamentalist…
Here are 78 Palestinian organizations telling the P.A. President that the right of return is a core principle, cant be abandoned, notwithstanding the “utter complicity” of the U.S. in support of the Israeli position… Americans can’t wish away Palestinian opinion….This…
This is a truly pathetic piece in Kos about Governor Palin’s meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres and gushing about the Israeli flag in her office. Kos finds this laughable and dubious, another hick Palinism, and so is able to extract…
Nir Rosen has an amazing report in The National from a Sunni town in Lebanon where gunmen block the Beirut-Damascus road and send suicide bombers to blow up Shiites in Iraq: After the war in Iraq – which empowered Shiite…
I keep missing a big campaign story that is on my beat: the efforts by a shadowy network that has Jerusalem connections to distribute DVDs of the movie “Obsession,” which portrays Islam as the fount of jihad, to voters in…