Being an old lefty, whose wife was once publisher of the late Nuclear Times, I have trouble accepting the Nukes-maintain-order line from realists. It goes against my ideological training. Nukes scare me. I think about minutes before midnight, the test…
More straws in the wind, and the usual reasons. Gaza. Netanyahu. Antony Lerman in the Guardian: The public positions adopted by the leaderships of diaspora communities around the world demonstrate solidarity with the state and government [of Israel]. American Jewish…
More straws in the wind, and the usual reasons. Gaza. Netanyahu. Antony Lerman in the Guardian: The public positions adopted by the leaderships of diaspora communities around the world demonstrate solidarity with the state and government [of Israel]. American Jewish…
I went to AIPAC two weeks back. The line was: Don’t worry about the two-state solution; it’s all about Iran. And duly the New York Times imbibed this line; it reported that the Obama-Netanyahu meeting on Monday was all about…
Did you notice in Max Blumenthal’s video the Palestinian boys at the demonstration in occupied Ni’lin using slingshots against the Israeli army?
We’ve been posting updates from Max Blumenthal from the West Bank. One of them was from the village of Ni’lin, where Max watched a nonviolent protest against the Separation Barrier get violently disbanded by the Israeli military. Max has now…
I confess I love Israel. Moments like this, reading Gideon Levy in Haaretz, remind me that the things I love about my Jewish culture–intellectual honesty and sensitivity–are alive in Israel, in the likes of writers like him. Why hasn’t any…
The arrests in the synagogue/jihad case in New York are terrifying, of course; and a reminder that anti-Semitism is a live force even in the U.S. Also a reminder that the Palestinian issue is likely to be deeply disruptive in…
o lord, religion sucks –2500-page report blasts “culture of silence” and fear surrounding wide sexual abuse of boys in Irish boys’ homes typically run by Catholic religious orders… –Islam and women; not a pretty picture either –culture of silence and…