60 congressmen have called on Hillary to press for the release of emergency funds to the UN to help rebuild Gaza, and push for the opening of more border crossings too. This is an anti-Israel lobby vote. Note the presence…
Unity Coalition for Israel has started the letter-writing campaign aimed at “60 Minutes” and its advertisers for the brilliant report on the end of the two-state solutioin that ran Sunday night. Here are some of the scripts for the lobby’s…
Mohammad of Vancouver has a new website up that sells t-shirts and buttons for Gazan relief. iheartgaza.org. Go there! –Phil Weiss
An open letter to Mark Green from Phil Weiss: Dear Mark, You were always an inspiration to me as a young leftie. I loved the fact that you got your start with Nader. I had good friends who worked for…
Dan Fleshler here cites a savage insight by a leading American rabbi who was outraged by the conduct of the 1982 Lebanon war: that American Jewish leaders were “used like cows” to promote Israel’s initiative here, and even milked like…
Jimmy Carter was on the Diane Rehm show on WAMU in D.C. this morning. A reliable source tells me that: Carter said the most important question to answer this morning is whether it will be one state or two… Carter…
From the YNet article “IDF soldiers leave racist graffiti on Gaza homes”: Other graffiti included “Death to Arabs,” “Arabs must die,” and “One down, 999,999 to go.” The Guardian is also reporting that Israeli troops also wrote “Arabs 1948-2009” on…
Ira Glunts writes: I think we are having the first confrontation between Team Obama and Team Israel. Olmert is being widely quoted in the Hebrew press as stating that the reply to Hamas over the killing of the non-commissioned officer…
Phil Weiss: When he was young, my friend Mohammad of Vancouver, an art curator and graduate student, served in the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war. I asked him whether he’d observed or experienced torture, and how he feels about…