In a piece in the forthcoming New York Review of Books, David Bromwich creatively opposes the post-colonial credo of Obama in his Cairo speech to a book by Leslie Gelb of the Council of Foreign Relations, which mingles the best-and-the-brightest…
Shocker. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that after former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman were indicted four years back under the Espionage Act (charges lately dropped), the Pentagon official who had informed on Rosen/Weissman, Larry Franklin, was approached by…
Three moods of an unidentified woman who attended Sunday’s Tel Aviv beach celebration in Central Park at the behest of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism–and who decided to confront the demonstrators. Photos by Michael Bitar. In the third photograph below,…
I noticed in Cairo that Egyptians took Obama’s speech as a promise. (That’s the front page of the Egypt Post, June 5.) Earlier today Adam Horowitz noted a trend among commenters: Israeli intransigence might harm Obama’s international credibility. Well here…
Tony Judt has an important piece on today’s Times Op-Ed page with bad news: the settlements are not going anywhere, they represent 10 percent of the Jewish population, and the belief that they are going away is “fictions on the…
Waleed Almousa, a Palestinian-American who is fluent in Arabic, had a question. “I was looking at Loewenstein’s great pictures of the Tel Aviv fest and noticed this banner– “and was wondering if ‘100 Shaloms’ is a Hebrew expression or idiom…
Here is a great interview of American-Israeli lawyer Emily Schaeffer, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, who works for a Tel Aviv human-rights firm and is suing two Canadian companies in Canada for their role in building the settlement in Bi’lin….
Joseph Dana follows up on his report of this morning from Safa in the West Bank: I just got an email from Ta’ayush activists who went to Safa this afternoon with the Palestinian land owners whose fields were burned and…
After yesterday’s beach party in Central Park hosted by the Israel Ministry of Tourism, who got the headline on Fox News? Fox 5 NY story was “almost entirely about the skimpily-attired protesters” (Jews sans Frontieres reports). And at Stanley Rogouski’s…