What can you expect of an article in the Jewish Week titled, “Times’ Cohen Getting Under Our Skin.” The enlightened Times columnist gave editor and publisher Gary Rosenblatt an interview at his office at the New York Times, and said…
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By Max Blumenthal On June 5, when several hundred Israelis marched from Tel Aviv’s Yitzhak Rabin Square to the Israeli Defense Ministry to protest the anniversary of the Six Day War, I was able to meet some of the country’s…
Taghreed El-Khodary, reporting at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza One of the highlights of my trip to Gaza was meeting Taghreed El-Khodary, the correspondent for the New York Times. She had breakfast with my New York-based…
Mike Desch, of Notre Dame, is in town for the annual meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. He told me about a neocon friend who said to him, “We [Israel] should have just pushed all the Arabs out in…
[Egyptians entering the great hall at Cairo University for Obama’s speech last week] A week ago, after Obama’s speech in Cairo, I went shopping in the old Islamic section of the city and Egyptians kept calling out “Obama” at me….
Bruce Wolman writes: What if Palestinians turned to non-violent protest and none of the media showed up to cover their actions? President Obama in his Cairo speech insisted the “Palestinians must abandon violence.” He exhorted them to imitate the methods…
The Israeli NGO Gisha released the following report yesterday: Two Years of Gaza Closure by the Numbers June 2007- June 2009: Crossings Closed; Supplies Restricted Percentage of goods permitted to enter Gaza, relative to demand: 25% (approximately 2,500 truckloads/month instead…
Amy Jay is a Bay Area writer/artist who was on my delegation to Gaza. I remember her wincing when I would say things like “the hummus has been decimated,” at lunch–she wondered how much of the violence in our surroundings…