Safa Joudeh writing from Gaza for Al Jazeera: Jalal’s story echoes the accounts I have heard many times before from my grandfather and others who lived through the Palestinian ‘nakba’ or catastrophe in 1948. “We fled the bombing of British…
Elliot Jager, editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post, talking to the New York Times: This is a just war and we don’t feel guilty when civilians we don’t intend to hurt get hurt, because we feel Hamas uses these…
My correspondent AC writes: Today the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution stating that the council: Expresses serious concern at the lack of implementation by the occupying power, Israel, of previously adopted resolutions and recommendations of the Human…
From Jerusalem Post. Imagine an Afrikaaner getting an invite from Reagan at the height of apartheid.
Amira Hass reports in Ha’aretz: As of Sunday, the streets of Gaza are full of people fleeing – both from Sheikh Ajleen, an area with open fields and houses, where battles between Hamas gunmen and Israel Defense Forces soldiers are…
Olmert says he told Bush not to suppport U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution. And that Bush then called Condi Rice and told her the U.S. couldn’t vote for it. She was upset because she’d co-written the thing. But the U.S….
Robert Naiman on Huffpo takes my line, that Dennis Ross was basically Israel’s lawyer for 10 years in the White House thru Republican and Democratic presidencies and the “messy and difficult” business of peace-processing while the colonies grew on “Palestinian…
Jon Stewart’s great monologue about Gaza where he denounced the checkpoints and the overwhelming “soul-crushing” assault and mocked the Israel lobby is now the centerpiece of a Jewish Voice for Peace letter-writing campaign. They say that Stewart is probably coming…