Yesterday Jeff Blankfort was a little despairing about influencing the New York Times. I have other rabbis who are more sanguine: For the activists who have given up on letters to the editor of The New York Times: Don’t! Things…
The great Uri Avnery has a new column saying that it’s Lieberman’s government; he has the key bloc. And the only upside is that in opposition, Tzipi Livni may at last be forced to embrace a real road to peace,…
The other day I urged non-Jews to get more involved in Middle East policy, because groups based inside the Jewish community were almost all corrupted by harshly pro-Israel attitudes. In my list of exceptions, I left out Jewish Voice for…
Wonderful, yes, that today the Times ran George Bisharat’s op-ed piece saying Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. But Bisharat is a Palestinian-American. And do you notice the pattern? Jeff Blankfort does: I have noticed that, almost without exception, the…
A friend sent along these thoughts on how to frame the millions that Larry Summers, Obama’s economic adviser, got from a hedge fund in the last year. He and others in the Obama economic council have profound conflicts of interest…
John Mearsheimer writes: I saw your posting titled: “AJC’s David Harris sure seems to be running away from debate with Mearsheimer and Walt.” I am pleased to say that I do not think that is the case. Ben Cohen, who…
Here’s another great shot by Sameh Habeeb from his show at the Dadabase Gallery in Vancouver of photos from Gaza, called Victim’s Victims. Habeeb worked for Iranian television during the onslaught, so I am going to assume that this journalist…
(Photo from Gaza by Sameh Habeeb, from the show Victim’s Victims at the Dadabase Gallery) Text from George Bisharat on today’s Times Op-Ed page (yes, the Times Op-Ed page, glory be to Gutenberg): Of 1,434 Palestinians killed in the Gaza…