By Max Blumenthal On Wednesday, I walked around central Jerusalem with my friend, Joseph Dana, an Israel peace activist who has lived in the country for three years. We interviewed young people on camera about the speech President Barack Obama…
Max Blumenthal’s latest video has created much controversy and debate that we’ll try to cover here on the site. F.E.Felson sent us one response: Not surprisingly, the skeptical response to Max Blumenthal’s latest video has been one of casual dismissal:…
David Bromwich writes: President Obama in his Cairo speech mentioned and named the “unprecedented Holocaust” suffered by European Jews in the years 1933-1945. He also mentioned the sufferings of Palestinians, from the dispossession of 1948 to the life under occupation…
Max Blumenthal writes: On the eve of President Barack Obama’s address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, I stepped out onto the streets of Jerusalem with my friend Joseph Dana to interview young Israelis and American Jews about their…
Today, Yousef Akel Sadiq Srour, 36, who was shot in the chest with live fire and killed during the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall in the Palestinian village Ni’lin. Ma’an News Agency is reporting that at least three other…
Seham gave us her pre-speech thoughts and now she weighs in after Obama’s speech in Cairo: If only he would have mentioned that Al-Azhar University was a beacon of Islamic and Arabic thought before it was plunged into backwardness by…
[Cairo] I’m about to go to the airport so I can go home and become a broken record about Gaza. I spent the evening with Egyptian friends and when I woke up this morning I realized how much of my…
It’s funny that Obama had to travel all the way to Cairo for MSNBC to start talking about what’s going on in Washington, DC. Keith Olbermann had Lawrence Wilkerson, State Department chief of staff under Colin Powell, on his show…
Antony Loewenstein responds to Obama’s speech in Cairo: Back in 2005, then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a rousing speech at Cairo’s American University. “For sixty years”, she argued, “my country, the United States, pursued stability at the…