If you will it, it is not a dream, Herzl said. But what if you stop dreaming it? A few items, in search of a big idea: –Fawaz Turki, a Palestinian-American, writing in the Gulf News: [A] lot of Americans…
Is this helpful? The picture at left was posted lately by Middle East Strategy at Harvard, a project of the Olin Institute, which is headed by neocon Stephen Peter Rosen. The image accompanies a printed talk by Alan Dowty that…
when it refers to places that are actually in East Jerusalem as being in Israel: the Dome of the Rock. Howard Schneider in the Washington Post a few days ago also did something similar. He said, Nazareth, the largest Arab…
David Bromwich shares my criticism of the New York Times’s article on the Israeli plans to take more land in east Jerusalem: A few details warrant further notice in the Bronner-Kershner story on the urban-renewal-by-monument-making that Israel has used to…
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Israel and promptly called for a Palestinian homeland. The AP: ”The hopes of countless men, women and children for a more secure and stable future depend on the outcome of negotiations for peace,” he told…
Why are we angry at the New York Times? Sunday’s Haaretz has a piece by Akiva Eldar, titled “Israel has a secret plan to thwart the division of Jerusalem.” It begins in this direct manner: The government and settler organizations…
I’ve always loved Haruki Murakami’s story about the destruction of the animals in a zoo in Manchukuo, occupied Manchuria, by Japanese soldiers at the end of WW2. Well, below is Jack Shenker’s report on the destruction of animals in the…
From the SunHerald of south Mississippi: Workers at the General Dynamics facility in McHenry [MS] will continue producing armor for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle under a new $37 million order from the U.S. Army Contracting Command…. The facility will share…