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I know that most of you are concerned with Madoff’s effect on the great battle against assimilation. Well I’m friends of contractors, and I’m told that Local 11 of the Carpenters Union, which is based in Westchester but represents carpenters…

The New Republic seems to depend on former IDF soldiers for more of its Israel coverage than just about anyone else. Benny Morris, Jeffrey Goldberg. And here is Michael Oren, today, on the ground in Gaza, fresh from the thinktank,…

How else to interpret the great Gideon Levy’s metaphor for the slaughter: Israel constructing a pipeline to ship blood? As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why….

From the Ynet article “Gazans say experiencing ‘another Nakba'”: Palestinians reported that many families have left their homes in Beit Lahiya’s al-Atatra neighborhood and are staying with relatives in “safer” areas. Hundreds of residents, who are afraid to travel in…

Here is Joseph Massad at Electronicintifada, using the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as the role model: On 12 May 1943, after he received word that the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto was finally crushed and many of its fighters killed, [Szmul]…

Unnamed boy brought into Shifa hospital in Gaza City today. Photo by Ashraf Amra, for AP, on Yahoo