Despite his campaign promise to do so, Obama in Turkey refuses to recognize the 1915 genocide of the Armenians. And remember all the talk about the powerful Armenian lobby? (Thanks to Bruce Wolman for headline, and idea)
From the Jewish Week’s story: “Bibi’s Allies on the Hill are Gearing Up to Blunt Obama Moves”, which typically lays the power of the Israel lobby off on to Christians, but concludes: “Anybody who believes this administration will focus on…
A well-informed friend of this site objected to the post we put up yesterday, called “Gazans beg for Shalit’s release. Hamas official says No,” which was sharply critical of Hamas’s human-rights conduct in Gaza. The original post was written by…
Earlier today I posted a recap of the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference from Nadia Hijab. She noted how the need to save a Jewish state will not inspire devotion to a two-state solution….
Ira Glunts reports: This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his outspokenness and extreme right-wing views–and…
Nadia Hijab files a report on the One State for Palestine/Israel: A Country for All Its Citizens? conference in her article “The growing belief in a one-state solution.” Hijab was a presenter at the conference and does not consider herself…
James North writes: I remember Mahmood Mamdani from 35 years ago, when he was the most dynamic leader of the newly-organized union of graduate students at Harvard. Today he is a distinguished professor at Columbia, one of our most original…
Photos of graffiti left by Israeli soldiers in a house in Gaza they had reportedly occupied for two weeks– taken by my wife’s friend, the Queen of Sheba. Translations sought.