Today I have gotten countless signs that at last the mood has changed, the American mood. That Israel miscalculated tragically, that American opinion is changing at last. The front page of today’s Times, with 5 columns given to a horrifying…
Israel’s out of control defense minister, Ehud Barak, who of course was the great attempted peacemaker at Camp David, is wiping the floors with my future president. From Haaretz: Barak also cited a comment made by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama,…
From the Times story, “Israel Reminds Foes That It Has Teeth”– a lesson the countless foes had surely forgotten since the Gaza blockade, the attacks on protesters in the West Bank, the Syrian raid, and the cluster bombs spread over…
Aaron David Miller on CNN, wisely advising against a reoccupation of Gaza, but offering this [adjective to be supplied later] statement: “Finally, if the situation could be stabilized, the Americans should probably try to nurture quietly the very productive discussion…
Ali Abunimah of Chicago, a friend of Obama’s, is published in the Guardian, in the UK, saying that Palestinians have “no words left” to describe the policy of mass killings– the majority civilians, including women and children. Israel claims most…
Mazin Qumsiyeh, watching television in Bethlehem before going out to protest at the wall. Remember, these images are being broadcast over and over in the Arab world: I was then shocked into more horrific scenes and news. In one house…