An exchange between Abe Foxman and Bill Moyers. The Foxman letter you’ve read 1000 times. The news here is Moyers’s letter: [A Norwegian doctor on CBS said,] “It’s like Dante’s Inferno. They are bombing one and a half million people…
I think we’re reaching our rendezvous with destiny. There was something of an uprising when the Israeli Foreign Minister showed up, fresh after inking a last MOU (memorandum of understanding) with the compliant Condi. Security guards stood tensely in front…
The Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions movement against Israel is picking up steam due to the war in Gaza. First, the British telecommunications company FreedomCall “severed all ties” with the Israeli company MobileMax. YNet reported, “The email from FreedomCall said, ‘As…
In a bold move, the American Conservative has put itself forward as the leading critical American journal of the Gaza war. It has printed pieces by Avi Shlaim, Glenn Greenwald, Daniel Levy, and John Mearsheimer. It is hard to call…
One of the electrifying journalistic events of the “war on terror” came in 2004 when Farnaz Fassihi, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Baghdad, wrote an email to a colleague, describing how awful life was there. The email…
The woman who Obama adviser Samantha Power (right) is listening to so intently in this picture is Maleeha Lodhi (left), a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., at a Harvard panel last month. The panel was absent neocons, and included…
Here neocon Ed Lasky, who deems Iraq a smashing success from his armchair, laments a report that Samantha Power escorted Obama to a recent realist-dominated dinner, a sign of her evident continuing influence, hosannah. Supporters of the American- Israel alliance…
Remember when everyone ran around after 9/11 saying, Why do they hate us? Well, are we still innocent? Ibrahim Kalin, an assistant prof at Georgetown, has this answer in a Turkish publication: After the 2009 Gaza massacre, the hawks in…