A friend writes: I think you’ll find this UN methodology on civilian deaths as of 12/29 noteworthy. The UN would not even count a UN employee or trainee killed in Gaza as civilian unless she was a woman. That’s flawed….
I always blast Brit Tzedek on this site. Today Brit Tzedek sent me a transcript of a telephone press conference with a Washington rabbi/expert visiting Jerusalem, and I admit that just a day or two after my New Year’s resolution…
The BBC has done an important story on Israel’s use of youtube to propagandize its surgical war. The other day it posted dramatic footage of a missile hitting a truck with a lot of men around it. The YouTube video…
The great Richard Silverstein: Rabbi [Eric] Yoffieâs piece in the Forward proves to me that while he may have liberal instincts on many issues, when it comes to Israel he is little better than the mainline Israel lobby organizations. We…
Last night my wife and I were talking about a Jewish couple we know: where do they stand on Gaza? I’d run into this couple during the endless festivities of the new year and looked for some sign of outrage…
I was a little hard on J Street in my last post. Oh well. At least they’re trying. Without recanting my position, here are some extenuating points. Donna Edwards, a freshman congressperson from Maryland endorsed by J Street, has a…
All over the left and the blogosphere, Gaza is Guernica, a “turkey shoot,” and “slaughter.” Not on the Zionist left. Americans for Peace Now equivocates in the face of horror: Over the past weeks, Israelis, Palestinians, and the world have…
In their article “IDF sending Hamas a message: Now it’s personal” Ha’aretz writers Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff explain that the assassination of senior Hamas official Nizar Rayyan on January 1 “is a significant development at this stage of the…
Ha’aretz reports: “The threat that Hamas’ ballistic capabilities pose to the people of the Negev is less serious than initially presumed and the residents of the targeted areas are not demonstrating signs of panic, according to an interim analysis by…