“Catastrophically misguided and incomprehensible policy,” the great Kushner tells Democracy Now, at a JATO demonstration last night in the cold in New York. It has gotten easier to speak out within the Jewish community in the last few years, says…
Watching Hill on the Hill, I’m impressed. She’s signalling a brave new mood, and sounding some of the right notes. The usual defense of Israel’s right to defend itself, but no red meat for the carnivores. Talks about “smart power.”…
“US Sees Gaza Rebuilding as Opportunity[for Abbas.” is the headline on this Reuters story. Has there ever been such insanity? Even partial reconstruction will take years. Almost all government buildings and all bridges destroyed. And this goes on, with no…
Laura Rozen over at the Foreign Policy blog The Cable has posted Hillary Clinton’s prepared answers to questions from the Senate Foreign Policy Committee. When it comes to Israel/Palestine it seems Clinton thinks everything is going great. She would seem…
You have to see this. It is the best journalism yet on the American response to Gaza. Period. An amazing video by Max Blumenthal/Alternet called, “Bomb a Ghetto, Raise a Cheer,” from the demonstration of pro-Israel Jews in New York…
Sir Gerald Kaufman, a Jewish Member of Parliament, from the Labor Party, representing Manchester. In the House of Commons debates for 12 Jan 2009: In congratulating my right honorable Friend on steering resolution 1860 through the United Nations Security Council,…
The lead headline this morning on Haaretz.com – “Livni: Gaza offensive is good for the Palestinians.” (Update: I guess someone from the Foreign Ministry got through to Ha’aretz. The headline for the same article has now been changed to -…
Can someone please explain to me what Yoel Marcus means when he says, “Killing children is a matter of politics” in his Ha’aretz article titled, “It’s not Israel’s fault it has a strong, well-run army”? The line after that goes:…
Here is the hearing announcement for Hillary Clinton’s appointment, tomorrow in Senate Foreign Relations. They can’t spell One Hundred Eleventh right– Evelenth– I wonder whether they’ll ask Hillary any tough questions about the Gaza assault. Just yesterday Ehud Olmert claimed…