Last Sunday the Times ran an Op-Ed about the Madoff scandal by the formidable Daphne Merkin, blaming the victims for their credulity–a piece the Times has now expressed misgivings about (the piece did not make clear that Merkin is the…
The Weekly Standard has published a cover piece by Gershom Gorenberg on that ancient and somewhat dubious question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, that portrays Palestinians as human beings. A rapid scan produces this sentence: That said, absolute nonviolence is…
Completely logical, and what we all know. In Haaretz, not the New York Times, which protects Americans from this discovery: As in every war, prolonged time in the field led to brutish behavior in some of the units. “The impact…
It never stops. The BBC contends that the Israeli government is condoning the construction of a new road on Palestinian land from the established settlement of Eli on high land in the central West Bank eastward toward an outpost. What…
Bruce Wolman writes: Did you notice how the Washington Institute for Near East Policy reduces the entire discussion of Gaza atrocities to the debate on the Israeli side? “So far, there have been only a few cases of alleged serious…
This photo is from AnomalousNYC’s flickr photostream. Shot recently in Brooklyn. He’s celebrating his fifth anniversary on Flickr!
An important debate took place on Wednesday: What to do if Iran gets nukes? at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Two neoconservatives, Elliott Abrams and Joshua Muravchik, were pitted against the newly-realist Martin Indyk…
Jeff Blankfort writes: At Huffpo, Stephen Zunes provides an excellent breakdown of the restrictions placed on the Palestinians by Congress in the new budget but remains in stolid denial that it is the result of the pressure of the lobby….
By way of a friend, A Cursory View of Benny Morris’s forthcoming book, One State, Two States Morris argues against both a two-state and a one-state solution, and in favor (though he thinks it a remote possibility) of an Arab…