Elliott Abrams has an oped in today’s Wall Street Journal trying to defend Ariel Sharon’s legacy, and evidently further ruin the Bush administration’s. In his article, “Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements,” he attempts to show that there was a…
Marc Lynch at Foreign Policy: “Rightly or wrongly, Obama has made the settlement issue a test of his credibility, and if he backs down then all the progress he has made will wash away instantly. That makes this a pivotal…
Last week in the Washington Blade, James Kirchick of the New Republic trashed ANSWER’s presence at a D.C. gay pride march, calling the antiwar group Stalinist. Kirchick wasn’t very straightforward. What is ANSWER’s big theme? Palestine. Here’s a foto from…
Great piece on JTA by Gila Orkin of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, saying Jews condemn rightwing parties all the time in the west, and fail to condemn the trend in Israel: The other [Yisrael Beitenu party] campaign…
Here’s a piece in the London gossips on the Hoping Foundation– “an organization that is dedicated to showing Palestinian refugee children that their struggle to transform their lives is encouraged and supported by people in Britain and throughout the rest…
Earlier today I posted a clip from Al Jazeera on Jewish settlers in Jerusalem. It was taken from a longer documentary that is now available. Here it is in two parts: The title of this post comes from a series…
Last week we passed along a report from Joshua Ruebner about his efforts to attend the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs “mark-up” session on the FY2010 budget. He was interested because they were supposed to…
Howard Schneider has an article on the Washington Post website outlining the history and controversy around Netanyahu’s unprecedented demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state or homeland before negotiations can begin. The issue has been covered more thoroughly…
Three friends directed me to “A Heated Debate Over Israel,” in the NY Times letters to the editor section, responding to the Tony Judt piece. Best letter is the second, by Howard Rubenstein, immediately after Abe Foxman, who– does the…