Whatever Barack Obama is or isn’t, a mystery we will get to unfold for many years, we know who George Bush is: a tragic figure. Look at him now. He’s crumpled, thin, gray, and angry. I remember him eight years…
Israeli Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman yelling at Talab El-Sana, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who is also a member of the Knesset: “You’re a terrorist representing terrorists. We’ll deal with you like with any other terrorist, like we dealt with…
This morning on NPR, Juan Williams of the Washington Post made the smart observation that Obama’s elevation firmly ends the era in which black politicians were presumed to be spokesmen for their race. They are now strictly professional pols who…
Chuck D, from the hip hop group Public Enemy, once called rap music “the CNN of black America.” Looks like its getting the word out for anti-Zionist Jews as well: This song, “The Emperor’s Clothes,” from Detroit rapper Invincible was…
Watch this. It is a beautiful video called Numu Numu, an Israeli lullaby, set to pictures of Israeli might and Palestinian destruction. Found on a blog of Hadash supporters (an Arab-Jewish party), it is old but perfect for now. The…
The fighting has stopped, for now. Although it is quite possible the violence will restart as soon as Obama starts to get comfy in his new office tomorrow, its not too early to begin to ask – how will this…
Mohammad writes from Vancouver: In light of the recent carnage and genocide by Israel’s Zionist regime in Gaza, it is easy to allow yourself to get disillusioned with things and let cynicism takeover. This may be useful for a while,…
In an MLK speech today in Minneapolis, Colin Powell emphasized Obama’s Muslim roots, when he imagined a living Martin Luther King Jr. being at the Capitol tomorrow “as Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office.” It was reminiscent of…
Steve Walt walks the cat back from the Gaza disaster to show how many of Israel’s strategic decisions in the 50 years since Suez have been boneheaded. Excerpts: Israel’s strategic judgment seems to have declined steadily since the 1970s –…