Who can even read this stuff? Zuckerman returns to Huffington Post to put out the new Netanyahu talking points: The I/P conflict means nothing next to the Iranian existential threat to Egypt, Saudi, Lebanon– an entire region “held hostage” to…
A lot of people have sent me the Sir Max Hastings piece from the Guardian, a veteran journalist’s lecture about falling out of love with an Israel that loves violence. (I posted about it the other day; I see that…
Who can even read this stuff? Zuckerman returns to Huffington Post to put out the new Netanyahu talking points: The I/P conflict means nothing next to the Iranian existential threat to Egypt, Saudi, Lebanon– an entire region “held hostage” to…
I missed this: on its blog, The Times published the wonderful illustration of the West Bank Archipelago–the Palestinian areas shown as islands in a sea–drawn by Julien Bousac and published at Strange Maps, in a blogpost saying how difficult it…
I missed this: on its blog, The Times published the wonderful illustration of the West Bank Archipelago–the Palestinian areas shown as islands in a sea–drawn by Julien Bousac and published at Strange Maps, in a blogpost saying how difficult it…
A great piece by Amira Hass in Haaretz saying that the reason Israeli governments have dragged their feet on a peace deal since ’93 is because Israelis have too much to lose in the bargain: jobs, privilege, an entire security…
Report by Robert Dreyfuss in the Nation, on an appearance at Washington Institute for Near East Policy last week of Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is training Palestinian troops in the West Bank and who said that two-state solution is…
Jason Larkin’s (copyrighted) photograph of the Khalil al Nubani school in Gaza City, which was attacked on the first day of the Israeli attack, December 27, and gutted by fire. Read the fine piece by Jack Shenker, “Gaza Laid Bare,”…
More criticism of the New York Times article on Israel’s ongoing strategy to control Jerusalem from an insightful reader in New York who reminds us of the local angle: The New York Times failed to tell its New York readers…