Another Drubetskoy picture from his picture a week thing. To me this one is about the comedy of history. It’s a deeply ironical foto of the museum/ warehouse of history, with all its glorious phases locked away forever like bric-a-brac,…
Weird that neocon Seth Lipsky, the founder of the late New York Sun, is granted space on Sunday’s NYT Op-Ed page to argue that the Marc Rich pardon–which is threatening to ensnare Obama AG pick Eric Holder 8 years on–was…
I keep meaning to mention the great news from the future Obama administration, that his National Security Adviser will be retired Marine General James Jones. Jones’s appointment makes “some Israelis nervous,” Congressional Quarterly reports (that’s the Congressional, not the Knesset…
Jack Ross went to a Rabbis for Human Rights conference in Washington today and reports that Avraham Burg was asked a question about whether he’s a Zionist, and said, he’s always tempted to make a joke about this question then…
Haaretz downplays coverage of an “alleged” assault by an IDF soldier on a Haaretz photographer in Hebron Saturday. (What’s alleged about it? If you trust a reporter to tell you the facts on other stuff, you have to back them…
A few days ago Adam Horowitz filed an important piece for this site on the idea that settlers are now trying to “Juda-ize” Arab sections of Israel proper (whatever the border is). Today the Times caught up with him with…
I had a brainwave today: I have photographer friends; why not exploit them, in the way that the internet is exploiting all of us, for my site? I don’t know the copyright issues. But this is from Peter Drubetskoy’s picture…
One of the startling moments for me in reading Avraham Burg’s new book is when he talks about his kids getting back to Israel from India and bringing Indian wisdom. I’ve talked about this phenomenon on my blog: the fact…
Chapter I. Last week at the Avraham Burg forum at the NY Public Library, Omer Bartov slapped Burg on the wrist for using Nazi analogies in criticizing Israeli behavior. Said he went too far. Then Bartov, a scholar of Nazism,…