(Screen shot captured by Justin Elliott) Note that the heroic Iranian woman on the CNN page is about to throw a stone. Have you ever seen coverage of a Palestinian throwing a stone during a protest highlighted so prominently and…
David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an important member of the Israel lobby. He wrote a book on the “peace process” lately with the Holy Avatar of the lobby, Dennis Ross. The avatar has lately…
My wife and I drove to the county seat yesterday to sign a refi. The lawyer’s office was full and we had to sit on the faux leather couch in the outer office. I was rereading Herzl’s diaries. He had…
MJ Rosenberg at TPM: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu believes that President Obama has already blinked…. There is no other way to interpret Netanyahu’s dismissal of the settlement issue in his interview with RAI TV in Italy. Settlements? “I think that…
What’s Marty Peretz’s game? Elena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, gave a speech in Norway. The New Republic picked it up, and Peretz called it “wonderful.” Bonner has a harsh streak. Here she is on the two-state solution: [C]reated next…
This was inevitable. The Harvard Crimson reports on what the so-far suppressed Iranian revolt means to nuke negotiations. And of course the arrow points one way for an ideologue: History Professor Roy P. Mottahedeh, who specializes in Middle Eastern intellectual…
(Unidentified Israeli activist, arrested last weekend in Safa, the West Bank. Photo by Laura Weisman.) Joseph Dana writes: There is a minority in Israel that is willing to risk life and limb to stand up to the occupation at its…
Transparency in journalism: The Jewish Telegraph Agency’s Ron Kampeas owns a home in the illegal Israeli settlement East Talpiot, built on Palestinian land stolen from Sur Bahir village.
Got to hand it to Politico’s Josh Gerstein. He has a short piece here on Nixon-era policy struggle, unearthed in National Archives data dump, on how much pressure to put on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation pact back…