I urge all readers to watch this video, which will be shown some day at the Holocaust Memorial. It is the voice of an Israeli woman (affiliated with Machsom Watch) pleading with Obama to end the occupation–and there are countless…
AC writes: New [Al-Jazeera English] video just in from Gaz — Afghanistan. Afghan villagers are shown in anguish over the killings of relatives by U.S. forces. One government employee who lost five of his family members in the strike is…
In the last day, Ali Abunimah on the Laura Flanders show, Stephen Hawking on Al-Jazeera, and Dan Levy on World Focus have all made the same analogy for talking to Hamas: the Brits and George Mitchell talked to the IRA…
Check out this video of the Laura Flanders show last night (and skip to 7:00): Ali Abunimah challenges Mark Green and Katrina vanden Heuvel, saying that progressives haven’t spoken out on Gaza. They respond by not speaking out on Gaza….
Are there reasons to care about newspapers? Yes, and here is one. A triumph of reporting by the Washington Post’s Jonathan Finer, from Zaytoun, Gaza, reconstructing the deadly cordoning of the Samouni family by Israeli soldiers a week into the…
A couple weeks back Phil Weiss did a post imagining what he would have done in other circumstances. Jack Ross offers his list: Born c. 1860 in Germany – I would have been a proud assimilated German citizen of Jewish…
Had Jimmy Carter on last night to talk about the Middle East. Stewart even talks about the one-state solution with democratic wonder. Carter: “We have a man who can bring peace to the Middle East. Barack Obama.”
In his Al Arabiya interview, Obama used the word “contiguous” to describe a functioning Palestinian state. Saif Ammous calls the plan, “a kidney shaped state with Gaza on the side.” Doug Suisman has done a Rand study purporting to show…
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day (I didn’t know such a day even existed). To commemorate the day the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network released the following statement: How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is…