One effect of Gaza is the greater respect Jimmy Carter is getting on this book tour than he got on Apartheid: It’s Apartheid in Apartheidville (I think that was the title). Here’s a fine interview by Reza Aslan at dailybeast….
Frightening country. Do we even know what Israel is? The other day Israeli soldiers fired warning shots toward the French consul-general and his colleagues as they returned from visiting Gaza. Israelis held the group up for six hours, too, at…
No wonder they didn’t want reporters there. Here’s more astonishing journalism about atrocities in the Gaza strip, this time by Don Nissenbaum of McClatchy chain: Souad Abed Rabbo said that she tied a white robe around a mop handle and…
It’s a brave new world. Jimmy Carter goes on Al-Jazeera to talk to Riz Khan, and I can watch him on my computer. Here’s a reference to Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk: [I]n the previous 16 years, most of the…
Some drama on the home front today. The magazine my wife works for went under just before noon. Domino. Fun smart magazine, 4 years old, killed by the recession. She was handling condolence calls all day, then went to bed….
Peter Voskamp writes: Stumbled upon Terry Gross and Fresh Air last night. Bizarre listening to Ethan Bronner and Gross sort of contort themselves to lay the blame, ultimately, at Hamas’ feet. Bronner offers some “horse race” analysis about the why…
by Michael Heart, a guitarist and session man in LA, born in Syria. Sweet and filled with passion, and actually alive to the horror, and the nobility of the Palestinian people. Women and children alike murdered and massacred night after…
A very strong statement posted on the Progressive Magazine site, by international writers and scholars calling for divestment and boycott ala South Africa, and urging American writers to join up. I see only a few Americans, Amiri Baraka, Ali Abunimah,…
Earlier today I posted Jimmy Carter’s statement on the Diane Rehm show in D.C. that he could throw a grenade over the separation wall in Israel/Palestine. Just listened to the actual show. He said that the wall was dreamed up…