Photographer Mark Peterson: “This was shot around 7pm. About 75 people were in the park singing and bringing flowers etc to remember John…there was a candle in the window of Yoko’s apartment in the Dakota [and you can see the…
Two friends have now sent me Jeffrey Goldberg’s squib on why merchants should continue to say Merry Christmas, and Hannukah is a bogus holiday. I agree with Goldberg, but would just like to observe that Goldberg is one of the…
I have said that Walt and Mearsheimer’s assertions will seem more and more like commonplaces in the years to come, as we realize, That ain’t the half of it. One of their assertions was that Israel pushed for the Iraq…
This is the season of media Christmas parties. I’m still connected enough that I get invited to a few, in Gotham, and I wanted to convey the following urgent information before passing into the arms of Morpheus. The old media…
Ali Abunimah in Electronic Intifada, riffing on Avraham Burg and Abba Eban’s description of ’67 borders as “Auschwitz borders.” the constant references to the Holocaust reminded me of Eban’s powerful analogy. I confess, however, that it evoked the walls, watchtowers…
Parents at a Tel Aviv school are objecting to two Arab students being integrated into their kids’ classroom. “We don’t want Arab students in our school and its not just us – our kids don’t want them in their classrooms,”…
I dislike George Bush as much as the next guy but this editorial in yesterday’s Times, called the Deluder in chief, that attacks George Bush over the war in Iraq is so much comfort food for privileged blue staters. The…
The drumbeat continues, inside and outside Israel. Adam Horowitz reports: An important report was released yesterday by the the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), an established and widely-respected Israeli NGO, founded in 1972. Each year, ACRI publishes a…