Osama bin Laden’s threatening statement yesterday only reinforces the awareness we all have that an aching grievance undealt-with invites extremist response. Tim McVeigh was executed, yes, but even the federal government understood that he acted in part because of a…
This made my day: the 10 Jews who chained themselves across the driveway of the Israeli consulate in L.A. as 50 others demonstrated. This is huge. We’re with you brothers and sisters, here on the east coast–like a tree that…
Jeff Blankfort just emailed me to say I need a photo, and he’s right. I love Arab portraits because I know so little about Arab culture and want to know more, want to enter the dream of the Palestinian kids….
Here is a really smart piece by Trita Parsi on Huffpo saying that notwithstanding the neocons’ (they won’t go away) claims, Iran has limited connections to Hamas (as opposed to Hezbollah) and that it has all but washed its hands…
One of my Muslim friends writes: Remember when I was telling you about ‘moderate’ and ‘liberal’ Muslim reformers? Well the suspicion is that they’re lionized for their views about Israel. Here’s one that liberals and Zionists love: Irshad Manji, published…
Proof of Walt and Mearsheimer’s idea has come with Congress’s overwhelming vote for Israel at a time when the world is condemning Gaza and the Democratic grassroots are horrified. It’s about elite control of foreign policy. The great Rami Khouri…
David Frum’s guide on how to Watch the Gaza War. All the cool Israeli propaganda videos showing Arab contempt for civilians.
All those stories about Israel’s great relationship with Turkey. From the AP: In one of his harshest statements, [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan last week said a “curse” will fall on Israel over “the children who died in those bombs.”…
Saint Noam’s MIT lecture was packed, with video feed to the overflow. Described the Gaza attack as the “U.S.-Israel attack on helpless Palestinians” and pointed out that the ramming of the Cynthia McKinney boat went largely unreported while the nation…