Mohammad of Vancouver notes that a French Jewish writer, Marek Halter, met with Khaled Meshaal of Hamas last month in Damascus and reports that Hamas would recognize Israel’s existence inside the ’67 borders.
Twitter’s the future, right? Well Twitter can make you feel very old in no time, as MRW, a frequent commenter on this site, has said. He has offered the following primer on starting a Twitter account. So here’s my analogy…
Rabbi Martin Hier in the New York Daily News. Hundreds of thousands of students visit his center, and the “museum of tolerance.” Hier basically calls the Palestinians Nazis: There is little doubt that if Gaza is not rebuilt, many civilians…
This analogy keeps coming to me: the urban ghettoes of the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. I’ve said it before but how different are lethal Hamas rocket attacks from black crime at that time? Second-class citizens, a sense of…
AC writes: An Amnesty International team in Gaza is reporting on the targeting of medics by Israel and has found evidence of US missiles being used in the attack. The munitions appear to be AGM-114 HELLFIRE missiles, anti-tank, anti-armor laser-guided…
The Canadian Jewish Congress has accused those protesting the Gaza slaughter of inciting hatred and violence at “pro-Hamas” rallies that featured “vicious anti-semitism.” The CJC says it’s collecting “evidence” thereof. Marion Boulby of the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation…
Sky Redoubt writes: This is rather interesting: I am translating more or less verbatim from a lefty blog in Hebrew. A post from 01/28/09 by Eyal Niv entitled “What do the Palestinians Want?”. What do the Palestinians want? It’s best…
The old joke is that the most dangerous place in the world is between Alan Dershowitz and a TV camera. He is still irked by the fact that Jimmy Carter, whom he says he worked with once observing an election…
Norman Finkelstein is interviewed by a Turkish publication. He makes my point: Erdogan was on a stage with someone justifying the killing of children. (Thanks to Nader Hashemi)