Today good liberal Brian Lehrer dedicated a lot of his show on WNYC, the New York public radio station, to dialogue about Gaza. All was undertaken in an earnest manner, and yet I found myself bridling. The dialogue consisted of…
Obama is said to have chosen Dennis Ross, Richard Holbrooke and Richard Haass as his envoys re Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and Israel/Palestine respectively. And the Israel lobby is just another lobby. It is not that some Jews can’t be fairminded. And…
This AP story bears great news, that a ceasefire might be accepted by Israel and Hamas. Notice that the key figures are Sarkozy and Turkey. While Condi Rice attacks Hamas. Also note the horrifying figures: 670 dead, more than 300…
The new model of publishing is the stable of bloggers. That’s the way the world is moving. Foreign Policy, firedoglake, antiwar.com, and the Atlantic have all chosen this model, replacing the professional guild/captive-advertising model of the late great newspaper. The…
Robert Fisk says 600 Palestinian dead in a week represents “atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.” He’s on to something. The unkillable neocons are looking at the same violence and of course blaming Hamas and…
The JTA: President Bush stacked his final selection of appointees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council with senior Jewish members of his administration. Among 11 appointees announced Tuesday evening were Josh Bolten, Bush’s chief of staff; Elliott Abrams, a…
I get to cry for great Jews on this site. This morning’s tears are for Jonathan Ben-Artzi, a conscientious-objecting nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu, interviewed here on Al-Jazeera, speaking of an unjust war against 1.5 million people denied the rights of…
I’m hell with Arab names. Sorry, I grew up with the same orientalism that Goldberg of Arabia did. But last night I published an allegation from the ingaza blog of a methodical Dier-Yassin like massacre in Zaytoun, which is evidently…
We are being tested, as Dan Levy said last night. Many great voices are speaking out. J Street and Brit Tzedek have covered themselves with honor. Andrew Sullivan, Dan Fleshler, David Bromwich and Glenn Greenwald have distinguished themselves on the…