David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday that was capable of striking Israel and parts of Western Europe, adding to concerns that Iran’s weapons-development program is fast…
David Sanger had a piece in the Times yesterday that was more Iran-fear-mongering. Iran test-fired a sophisticated missile on Wednesday.
Scott McConnell, noting the Jane Harman news, points out that this is a wrinkle in the last neocon push: I assume that powerful Congressmen and women have a pretty good sense of political realities, so I took it as a…
NIAC is reporting that Rep. Jane Harman has retracted and apologized for her comments advocating that Iran be divided up by ethnicity. Harman claims she her comments were “taken out of context.” Judge for yourself (begin around 1:25): Seems pretty…
We are continuing to collect responses to the Obama/Netanyahu meeting on Monday. Ali Abunimah says the meeting represented no hope or change for US policy. He is especially critical of Obama’s endorsement of Israel as a Jewish state and raises…
I have a hobbyhorse I haven’t mounted: the failure of The New Yorker magazine, which helped shape liberal blue-state opposition to the Vietnam War, to say one word about Gaza. Yes, editor David Remnick said something about the onslaught in…
Part Two from Max Blumenthal focuses on the Israeli settlement enterprise in the West Bank (Part One is here). He visits the Balata refugee camp in Nablus and the Israeli settlement Ariel – the juxtaposition speaks for itself – and…
James North writes: Mahmood Mamdani surprised me during our recent talk in his office up at Columbia University; he said no one at all from the Darfur solidarity movement has approached him to discuss his just-published Saviors and Survivors, (aside…
Former Newark Star-Ledger reporter and now evangelical Christian-blogger George Berkin on NJ.com, which is the Star-Ledger website: At first thought, it seems reasonable that the Palestinians, like other self-proclaimed “people,” might want a homeland. But surely, there is plenty of…