Two readers have said that the big rally for Israel sponsored by Britain’s leading Jewish body is going forward this Sunday. Looks official to me. Earlier today we reported based on a press release using the BoD logo that they…
Moral philosopher and fabled lover Bernard Henri-Levy, at the New Republic: Not being a military expert, I will abstain from judging whether the Israeli bombardments of Gaza could be better directed, less intense.
says that Obama engaging with Hamas could cause all kinds of problems. I’m sure. And how is it engaging with Israel? The Guardian has reported that Obama plans to talk to Hamas. And speaking of Aaron David Miller and the…
Jeet Heer in the National Post of Canada.You heard that right, National Post: Events like the war in Gaza are likely to intensify the post-Zionism of young Jews. In the public debate in America, it is striking that the strongest…
More from my masked correspondent AC. My suspicion is that he’s an Anglo-Asian. I’ll let you know if I find out anything: B’Tselem has specifics on the Samouni family massacre. 31 members of the a-Samuni family killed in southern Gaza…
Four days into his new blog, Steve Walt has reponded to the smears against him by Jeffrey “Uh-oh, Discourse is Changing Fast, I Staked Out the Wrong Position on Gaza Slaughter” Goldberg and Russ Douthat. Walt specifically takes Goldberg apart…
I gather there were 1000 people in this hall at University of Chicago yesterday, and many had to be turned away, to hear Abunimah, Finkelstein and Mearsheimer talk Gaza. Mearsheimer and Finkelstein agreed that Israel was the roadblock to peace….
Horrifying, world-changing events always have an upside. Gaza has shown Americans, as never before, the mature power of Arab journalists. Their voices are in our media to stay. Three examples. Here is the Washington Post’s Abdel Kareem’s stirring report on…
Tony Karon’s words fall like hammers in this piece saying that Israel has lost the war, that it never fixed its borders, that Nakba is intertwined with Israel’s existence, and that Palestinian resistance is completely understandable: Arafat is dead and…