We have already spilled enough pixels on this site talking about the incoming Israeli government. Netanyahu will be the Prime Minster, Avigdor Lieberman will be Foreign Minister, and Ehud Barak has weaseled his way into remaining Defense Minister. This is…
in this snaky manner an hour ago or so: This article supersedes an article published earlier this week on Norway which contained inaccuracies, and has been withdrawn. David Horovitz, where is the apology? And just what was inaccurate?
Bruce Wolman of Bethesda, MD, lived in Norway for more than 20 years. He reads the Norwegian press in Norwegian and offers the following exclusive report: According to NTB, the Norwegian wire service, Norway’s Finance Minister and Socialist Left party…
Bruce Wolman writes: Incoming Israeli P.M. Bibi Netanyahu tells Jeffrey Goldberg: “Iran is a composite leadership, but in that composite leadership there are elements of wide-eyed fanaticism that do not exist right now in any other would-be nuclear power in…
Thanks to reader Jim Harb for alerting us to this interesting imaginary map. It is one way of showing the fragmentation of the West under Israeli occupation – an archipelago of disconnected islands. It’s from the website Strange Maps, which…
Bruce Wolman writes: An American gentile, Larry Franklin, goes to prison. But, according to Haaretz, his Israeli intelligence counter-party in crime (Uzi Arad, security aide to Netanyahu) will get a visa so as to visit the Obama administration. If this…
There’s a long piece on J Street by Noah Pollak in the forthcoming Commentary. I just read it. It’s a smart piece. Its essence is the claim that Jews are on the neocons’ side, and just look at Gaza. Barney…
Columbia had its semi-annual University Lecture last night: history professor Ira Katznelson’s thoughts on tolerance and liberalism, using the example of the history of Jews in England, from their expulsion in the 1200s to their readmission in the 1650s to…
Antony Loewenstein, the Australian author, reports on the recent visit down under of Jeff Halper: Jeff Halper, Israeli/American peace activist, retired anthropologist and head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), writes in his recent book, An Israeli in…