Lately I asked the young Palestinian-Californian woman I’ve called “Seven” (because her awareness about the evils of occupation began when she was 7 and saw her grandfather being assaulted by an Israeli soldier and her father and brother did nothing)…
Likud platform states– oh, that’s frontrunner Netanyahu’s party– Settlements The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to…
Lately the English scholar Susie Kneedler wrote, “Obscenity is great when it’s just a fantasy. –Austen herself loved Richardson; she just invented something better than self-destruction as a way to live.–But when it’s transformed into a nation’s way of life,…
Another account in the Israeli press, about the Israel Policy Forum, and its realistic representative, Sam Lewis (who is tight with the idealistic MJ Rosenberg): Here is another story from last Thursday. It happened in Tel Aviv, in the offices…
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad writes: The following response from Chomsky to Shahid Alam’s critique was posted by one of the readers on our website. I can’t attest to its veracity, but sounds very much in his style: I looked at it….
AC writes: The post about unbounded optimism wasn’t a challenge to you [as Weiss framed it in posting it: AC accuses me of deluded optimism in believing in a sea change”] . It was a challenge to all the thinking…