Today Palestinians across the Middle East, including inside Israel, commemorated al Nakba. Arabic for “the catastrophe”, al Nakba refers to the ongoing displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people that began in 1948 with the founding of the state of…
Haaretz says Israel has vowed not to attack Iran without coordinating with the U.S., and it’s just a continuation of the policy under Bush. Israeli officials believe that U.S. foreign policy professionals are vehemently opposed to an Israeli strike on…
Haaretz says Israel has vowed not to attack Iran without coordinating with the U.S., and it’s just a continuation of the policy under Bush. Israeli officials believe that U.S. foreign policy professionals are vehemently opposed to an Israeli strike on…
In 1896, the founder of political Zionism, the worldly journalist Theodor Herzl, published The Jewish State, electrifying Europe. He soon began meeting high officials to try to sell the idea. From The Diaries of Theodor Herzl: May 7, 1896: Herzl’s…
David Rose is reporting in Vanity Fair that back in 2004, nearly 3 years before the U.S. included Sunnis in efforts to end the insurgency in Iraq, Sunnis reached out to the Americans and were rebuffed. Rose says it was…
Caryl Churchill’s 7 Jewish Children playlet, inspired by Gaza, which I actually heard recited earlier this evening–i.e., it continues to resonate–now has a Palestinian spinoff: from Um Khalil, 7 Palestinian Children, in the same mode, of parents discussing what to…
I missed this. A hugely important warning from King Abdullah of Jordan to Obama, delivered through the Times of London’s Richard Beeston. From the summary: If Israel procrastinated on a two-state solution, [Abdullah said] or if there was no clear…
Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…
Here’s the State Department’s report to Congress last year on global anti-semitism. Nice cover, sort of neo-expressionist. On page 33, the report says that it is anti-Semitic to ascribe policy-making to a “pro-Israel lobby” or a “Zionist lobby,” because that’s…