In the Times of India. Brings up the Jews-only settlements. Of course this site said it was worse than apartheid 3 years ago. This comes just a few weeks after the president’s deputy foreign minister was woodshedded for saying American…
Steve Clemons is for imposing a solution, because Israel and Palestine are incapable of doing it on their own. And he quotes Peter Berkowitz of the neoconservative Weekly Standard offering another reason Palestinians shouldn’t have a state: Indeed, the journalists,…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: I have no illusions about Obama. I began having doubts when the Lieberman mentorship issue surfaced, and these doubts solidified into actual fears when I saw his speech at the annual AIPAC conference in June 2008….
Phil Weiss thinks the Israel lobby has been transformed by recent events, and we are seeing it in decline (even as the damage is done in the Middle East). J Street, a Lebanese-American envoy, Barack Hussein Obama, talking to Iran….
AC writes: Reports are coming in from Gaza that the IDF is firing at civilians and farmers accompanied by international volunteers as human shields. An account [from International Solidarity Movement], with unnerving video: Returning to farm-land… east of Khan Younis,…
Last night on NBC news, Al Roker debuted a show he is doing about black kids growing up without fathers. The big theme of the show that will air on MSNBC tomorrow night is bluntly racial: “this unsettling crisis.” It…
As many voices on this site mourn the two-state solution, I picked up Palestinian-American Ali Abunimah’s book, One Country (2006). It tells a long-ago story that seems quaint today: Drawing parallels between Israel-Palestine and apartheid South Africa makes some people…
Mohammad of Vancouver writes: We all agree that Joe Biden was is in Munich for an international security conference. We all agree that he spoke about the new direction in US foreign policy. But that’s all USA and the rest…