I keep teasing Aaron David Miller’s pessimistic talk at AIPAC last week on how far off a solution to the I/P problem is, notwithstanding the enthusiasm for Obama. I have to relisten to it. Meantime, here is a piece by…
Wonderful piece from Gaza by Eva Bartlett on one Palestinian family rebuilding their home out of bricks of mud-and-straw. Prior to Israel’s crippling siege on Gaza cement would have cost 20 shekels (about five dollars) a bag. Now, with cement…
Wonderful piece from Gaza by Eva Bartlett on one Palestinian family rebuilding their home out of bricks of mud-and-straw. Prior to Israel’s crippling siege on Gaza cement would have cost 20 shekels (about five dollars) a bag. Now, with cement…
UN report on nine attacks on UN property during the Gaza onslaught has been watered down, critics say, from a 188-page critique of Israel to a more legalistic 27-page document. From Inter Press Service: In the case of the UNRWA…
Last fall, neocon/Zionists such as Eli Lake attacked General James Jones, Obama’s choice for National Security Adviser, because of his devotion to the idea of Palestinian self-determination. They said that he was cut from realist/Brzezinski cloth. MJ Rosenberg at TPM…
Why is all the good mainstream journalism about Israel appearing in England and Israel? Here is Max Hastings, former editor of the Telegraph, giving an inspired lecture on how Israel, which he frequently visited and long admired, has so celebrated…
No longer did I tuck a bound volume under my arm whenever I left home or office. I just dropped my iPod in my pocket and could go anywhere without the haunting fear that I might be stranded in line…
No longer did I tuck a bound volume under my arm whenever I left home or office. I just dropped my iPod in my pocket and could go anywhere without the haunting fear that I might be stranded in line…
When I was young, Jewish organizations put their feet down about the use of the terms “good Jew” and “bad Jew.” It was too divisive. But that didn’t make the issue go away. I always felt like a bad Jew:…