Today Americans for Peace Now released an interview with former Mossad exec Yossi Alpher where Alpher showed great respect for the Iranian revolution, comparing it to the Russian revolution, and saying that neoconservatives failed to understand its permanency and support….
Earlier today I did a sexist headline and didn’t stop myself. The headline was I bet the girls are better-looking in the ‘sphere of deviance.'” I’m phallocentric, I admit it. Adam Horowitz has wisely censored/edited me on a couple of…
Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti was the star of the recent Bob Simon report on “60 Minutes” on the death of the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. This Thursday afternoon he will be at Columbia University, speaking to the Arab Students Association,…
David Bromwich, who lectured on Lincoln’s legacy last week in Colorado, responds to a post by Phil Weiss on Lincoln’s failed 1849 effort to get a presidential appointment, commissioner of the Land Office: Why do people grasp at dirty straws…
Ali Gharib writes: It appears now that the U.S. will not be directly involved in aid programmes to Gaza – especially reconstruction – and that the new administration of President Barack Obama will continue the George W. Bush policy of…
From the Telegraph: John Rose, one of the original London School of Economics (LSE) students to mount the barricades alongside Tariq Ali in 1968, spent last week giving lectures on the situation in Gaza at 12 of the occupations. “This…
Peace Now is grim about the election. It says that in all likelihood four parties will poll between 15 and 25 seats in Knesset, with Lieberman’s racist Yisroel Beitenu party outpolling Labor. Peace Now: How do Tuesday’s Knesset elections shape…
Jay Rosen has picked up an interesting diagram to show how certain subjects (the Iraq war, Israel policy) are beyond debate in US politics. There are 3 spheres of the discourse: the inner sphere of consensus (Ken Pollack), surrounded by…
A friend writes that the neocons now despise Andrew Sullivan and offers this reason why: a great picture of a Palestinian schoolgirl inside her wrecked school from Sullivan’s blog in January. The girl’s covered. Horrors.