Nancy Horn reports from central Pennsylvania: Yesterday, on the front page of the Daily Item, in the far right column, right under the name of the paper and with the largest-size headline, there appeared a piece entitled: “Prof: Israel using…
Posters like this one–“Ghosts of Gaza”– were put up by artists all over Vancouver yesterday… Thanks to Mohammad. I’m still waiting for all the movie stars to jump on this issue. And if not, why not?
I’m in a nice house in the woods in America, land of the free, right now. But this is what I think I would have done, based on my 50 years of reading and awareness of my own temperament: –In…
Geoffrey Gray writes: Times’ Michael Slackman writes today in “News Analysis: Crisis Imperils 2-State Plan”: “…the alliance of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas… is fighting against a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict–and with that, against the two-state solution.” This…
Very smart piece in the Independent by Geoffrey Wheatcroft saying that American sufferance, the Israel lobby in so many words, is all that maintains Israel’s intransigent brutal policy as the world gapes. Great quotes of Dayan on Jewish effeteness, Lewis…
Jeffrey Goldberg’s attack on George Bisharat’s op-ed in Saturday’s WSJ. A friend writes: It seems absurd to me to attempt to discredit Bisharat merely for wanting to extend equal rights to Israelis and Palestinians. Equal rights in 2009 is American…
AP story saying that Obama might like to get involved with Israel/Palestine but it’s a black hole and Hamas is awful so who can champion 2 states. Actually, it’s not complicated: Palestinians have had no right of self-determination for 60…
My friend James North was just in Central America. Watched Al-Jazeera English all the time. It is stunning, he says, because the coverage is so professional and sophisticated. The panels aren’t loaded the moderators are smart. (Though I pity anyone…