Bruce Wolman writes: “Norwegian Jews disagree with The Jerusalem Post,” blazed the headline of the Norwegian paper Dagbladet in its most commented-upon article today. For the third day the Norwegian media provided ongoing coverage of an Israeli-Norwegian spat. Surveying the…
Someone named Vita Wolinsky was deeply offended by the Oliphant cartoon depicting Israel as a goosestepping fascist in Gaza. She said she found the cartoon through this page on the Times website and was cancelling her family’s subscription to the…
A few comments about Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with Bibi Netanyahu yesterday. –Looking thru his book Prisoners, I was freshly irritated by Goldberg’s line near the end of the book that he and his Palestinian counterpart in his story are “two…
Surprise. The new Foreign Minister of Israel, one Avigdor Lieberman, has come out against the peace talks with the Palestinians conducted by his predecessor, Tzipi Livni, and said that any concessions to the Palestinians mean war. As for the lobby,…
I don’t like the Where’s the Palestinian Gandhi? talk in part because it’s so disingenuous, in a highminded Monty-Pythonish way. If the analogy holds, and Israel is India under the Raj, well darling, this must be England, and then why…
Good news. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has apparently filed federal complaints against the tax-free status of “charities” raising money for the colonists of the West Bank. An ADC spokesman tells me that they’re not discussing their investigation right now,…
Al Arabiya picks up this report from Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers dressed up as Palestinians to investigate a settler outpost– and were set upon by angry settlers. Six settlers were then arrested. None of them is now imprisoned. That’s the…
Tom Friedman used to say, I know what Arafat’s really thinking cause I don’t read what he says in the English press, I read the Arabic! Well I know what’s really happening in Israel cause I don’t read the American…
Yesterday I posted an important blogpost from a friend of my wife’s who is in Gaza now. I emailed her and asked her a few questions. Her response. I urge all to read to the end: Getting in is incredibly…