A friend writes: War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, noted Ambrose Bierce. Unfortunately, Rand McNally is interfering with this grand American tradition. This weekend I purchased a $16 laminated Rand McNally world map for my nephew. After seeing…
From the New York Times article “Israel Rejects 48-Hour Cease-Fire Plan”: The Nakhala family, which lives next to the [government] compound [in Gaza City], was inspecting the damage on Tuesday morning and recounting the utter fear and panic they all…
The true and savage mystery of the New York Times is why the paper of record turned to Benny Morris yesterday to tell people how to think about Gaza. This is one reason why the internet is surpassing newspapers as…
Sandy Tolan in the CSM says Gaza is the crossroads for Obama, and he’s right. If Obama says the wrong thing, if he fails to condemn Israel’s disproportionate horrifying violence– as Miliband has condemned, in England– then he loses the…
Leon Hadar: After reading [Benny] Morris today [“Why Israel Feels Threatened,” a headline that will go down in infamy –Weiss] I recalled the advice that the late Israeli PM Levi Eshkol (who headed the Israeli government in 1967) had given…
Last night on Hardball, Pat Buchanan said that from a foreign-policy standpoint, the presidential election was about whether the neoconservatives were right or not, in their response to 9/11, two wars and an unending war on terror. The country said…
An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert talking to Ha’aretz: “Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis. We’re constantly supplying it with food and medications, and there’s no need for a humanitarian cease-fire.”
Just got up, just heard Steve Inskeep of Morning Edition on NPR angrily asking the Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor (whom Horowitz dispatched on this site last night) what the goals were, when it was going to be over, aren’t you…
Weird. Here’s an article on Huffpo all about the Palestine protesters in Honolulu with the amazing Margaret Brown, 66, in it– “We just gave them a blank check to oppress the Palestinians, and this is the result,” she said. Margaret,…