Where would any of us be without Haaretz? How would we even know about the pogroms in Palestine? It’s olive harvest time and these Palestinians made the mistake of having their olive orchards on land between a Jewish settlement and…
Ralph Seliger is irritated at me for not looking at the Meretz USA site to see what progressive Zionists stand for. He’s right. Here’s a statement from the Meretz site, supporting the amazing Israeli soldiers group, Breaking the Silence, on…
Here is something morally depraved. The head of the National Jewish Democratic Council, Ira Forman, writes a piece on Huffpo saying that the Republicans are using “guilt by association” tactics against Obama by saying that he is connected to Rob…
I can’t wait for Obama to be president and change the way people look at the world. Here is the National in Abu Dhabi picking up Haaretz from Jerusalem on the epidemic of settler violence: In a lengthy interview with…
The Washington Institute for Neocon I mean Near East Policy had a forum on rethinking the 2-state solution in which an Israeli general said, basically it’s over: “Ultimately, the most the Israeli government can offer the Palestinians — and survive…
There’s a great show up at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan with 60 photographs by Russian Jewish photographers, many of them born in the Soviet Union, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel. I went because a friend has…
Alison Weir’s differences with me remind me of a meeting I had the other day with a Jewish Arabist. I’m disguising some facts about him to protect his identity, still I wanted to convey some of his thinking. He worked…
I was blown away by Joe Biden last night. He was truly presidential. He got more and more confident as the evening went on. He grew into it. I wondered why he had not been able to defeat Obama earlier…
Alison Weir of If Americans Knew has responded to my post of a couple weeks back about her presentation at Yale. (I can’t get to my website. But it was a post 2 weeks ago from Yale). I urge you…