In an interview on “Z-word,” a Zionist site run by the American Jewish Committee, the writer Paul Berman rejects the idea that the Gaza assault was disproportionate, and suggests that Israel thereby averted “genocide.” [W]hich of these is the correct…
A Times-reader writes: I was really struck by the number of times Ethan Bronner used the word collaborator in this piece about a musical production in Israel between a Palestinian and an Israeli. Four times. The Arabic word is a…
Neocon gotterdammerung continues. This time wise Lobe doubts Abrams’s statement about how arms are allegedly making their way from Iran to Hamas. (Thanks to Dave Reed)
From a military/security site out of the Washington-area. The first angel ascended the ladder 70 steps before descending. The Jewish people were in exile in Babylon for 70 years. The second angel climbed the ladder 52 steps. The Jews were…
Roger Cohen’s recent editorial in the New York Times about Iranian Jews continues to reverberate. Below is a reflection by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb (pictured below). Rabbi Gottlieb led a delegation to Iran last April and visited again in December. A…
Here’s an important piece in BMJ, the online British Medical Journal. Several years ago, when the journal ran a piece on the targeting of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers, it endured a storm of emailed complaints, and this motivated the…
A man carrying sheep on a motorcycle outside Islamabad. Photograph by Emilio Morenatti, from a fabulous series of photographs from Pakistan that the Boston Globe ran a week ago. The charming Sepoy dubs this series, “Mostly Beards.”
Alabama Senator Richard Shelby’s suggestion the other night that Barack Obama is not eligible to be president because he was not born in the U.S.–a false assertion–didn’t come out of nowhere. Dr. Orly Taitz is a California attorney behind lawsuits…
Marty Peretz, running wild and free like a mighty horse in a Marlboro ad not stopping for commas: But [Chas] Freeman’s real offense (and the president’s if he were to appoint him) is that he has questioned the loyalty and…