The new model of publishing is the stable of bloggers. That’s the way the world is moving. Foreign Policy, firedoglake, antiwar.com, and the Atlantic have all chosen this model, replacing the professional guild/captive-advertising model of the late great newspaper. The…
Robert Fisk says 600 Palestinian dead in a week represents “atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.” He’s on to something. The unkillable neocons are looking at the same violence and of course blaming Hamas and…
The JTA: President Bush stacked his final selection of appointees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council with senior Jewish members of his administration. Among 11 appointees announced Tuesday evening were Josh Bolten, Bush’s chief of staff; Elliott Abrams, a…
I get to cry for great Jews on this site. This morning’s tears are for Jonathan Ben-Artzi, a conscientious-objecting nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu, interviewed here on Al-Jazeera, speaking of an unjust war against 1.5 million people denied the rights of…
I’m hell with Arab names. Sorry, I grew up with the same orientalism that Goldberg of Arabia did. But last night I published an allegation from the ingaza blog of a methodical Dier-Yassin like massacre in Zaytoun, which is evidently…
We are being tested, as Dan Levy said last night. Many great voices are speaking out. J Street and Brit Tzedek have covered themselves with honor. Andrew Sullivan, Dan Fleshler, David Bromwich and Glenn Greenwald have distinguished themselves on the…
Ethan Bronner has a great piece on the clamping down of the international press. He is distinguishing himself. Like all wars, this one is partly about public relations. But unlike any war in Israel’s history, in this one the government…
I just got off the phone from a conference call with Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation. It was arranged by Brit Tzedek, and it was just a beautiful call. We really have to honor the Jews who are…
Steve Walt poses a thought experiment: philosophy professor Joseph Levine at University of Massachusetts: what if Hamas was hiding out among the civilian population of Tel Aviv, and attacking Israel from within? Would the IDF be using massive force to…