Remember how the west condemned Russia’s attacks on South Ossetia in Georgia? What is the Israeli policy in Gaza? Here is John Mearsheimer writing two weeks ago on TPM: As [Avraham] Burg makes clear in his book, today’s Israelis are…
Adam Horowitz writes: At left is a Reuters photo of a Gaza man grieving over the killing of his son. From the Times: “Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of emergency services at the Gaza Ministry of Health, said at least…
To: Office of David Miliband [British Foreign Secretary] Subject: URGENT: From Jeremy Corbyn [Member of Parliament, from a north London district] Dear David Miliband, I am shocked, appalled, and very angry at the behaviour by Israel in bombing Gaza, killing…
This note from a Professor Abdelwahed of Al-Azhar University in Gaza, sent to Sonja Karkar, of Australian Women for Palestine, conveys the horror of the situation in Gaza–and also the fact that Israel is going after Qassam rockets. One should…
A smart piece of reporting in the Times by Samuel G. Freedman on the ways in which the New York Modern Orthodox community was the epicenter of the Madoff catastrophe. And pointing out that no Reform or Conservative institution was…
This morning’s Times has the news of the strikes on Gaza killing over a hundred, and on the same front page there is this review of Ari Folman’s movie, Waltz With Bashir, “Inside a Veteran’s Nightmare,” that raves about this…
My friend Hannah Mermelstein has filed this piece from Palestine saying that the “civil war” between Israel and the settlers masks the true source of the conflict, a landgrab that goes back 60 years. The settlers say, What’s the difference…
Stuff piles up at Christmas and my wife and I only get to it later. She was having a bath this morning and asked me if I was as shocked as she was the other night when an older relative…