Max Blumenthal is currently traveling in Israel/Palestine and will be contributing reports to Mondoweiss: I was in Ni’lin today, a town in the West Bank that has been the site of weekly demonstrations against the construction of a portion of…
Max Blumenthal is currently traveling in Israel/Palestine and will be contributing reports to Mondoweiss: I was in Ni’lin today, a town in the West Bank that has been the site of weekly demonstrations against the construction of a portion of…
Aharon Abramovich was an Israeli government “ministerial director” (I don’t know what this means, but he was important) until recent retirement; he ran the justice and foreign bureaus. He talked to Haaretz about the fact that every foreign official who…
As I mentioned the other day, David Rose in Vanity Fair has a good piece saying that neocons in high U.S. government positions prevented American overtures to the Sunni insurgents in 2004, nearly three years before such connections helped end…
The following is from David Hosey’s blog City of… [This] photo was taken by my Sabeel coworker Lydia on a trip we took last fall to what is today northern Israel–northern Palestine in 1948. We were visited villages that were…
I went to the Telluride Film Festival two years back and the Israeli consulate was thanked in the program. I wonder if it was for as small a sum as this. The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Committee flipped out when they…
A chilling piece of reporting from Amira Hass, in Haaretz, on the disgraceful treatment of civilians, including wounded civilians, following an Israeli attack on a neighborhood south of Gaza City shortly after the new year. only on Friday, January 9,…
A chilling piece of reporting from Amira Hass, in Haaretz, on the disgraceful treatment of civilians, including wounded civilians, following an Israeli attack on a neighborhood south of Gaza City shortly after the new year. only on Friday, January 9,…
Wait till progressive Democrats feast on him in the 2010 primary. Who wants this guy? The newly-minted Democratic Senator is speaking at a conference on “radical Islam” organized by the Middle East Forum, Daniel Pipes’s group, which has continually stereotyped…