I just got off the phone from a conference call with Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation. It was arranged by Brit Tzedek, and it was just a beautiful call. We really have to honor the Jews who are…
Steve Walt poses a thought experiment: philosophy professor Joseph Levine at University of Massachusetts: what if Hamas was hiding out among the civilian population of Tel Aviv, and attacking Israel from within? Would the IDF be using massive force to…
Habib Battah in Al-Jazeera English: The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel’s war on Gaza. On the left was a…
The Telegraph in England: With Israel barring foreign journalists from reaching Gaza, it is impossible to verify the account of what happened to the Samouni family emerging from eyewitness testimony provided by survivors. But different survivors all gave near identical…
JTA: Dennis Ross said the United States should back a cease-fire in Gaza only if it ensures that Hamas “can’t rebuild.” “We want some stability,” said Ross, a former top Middle East negotiator in the Clinton administration, in a talk…
Here’s the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto urging a rally over the crisis in Southern Israel: Join thousands across Canada in a national show of support for the people of Israel living with constant missile attacks by Hamas terrorists. Yes,…
Texting from hell, a Norwegian doctor who doesn’t want to leave: According to [61-year-old Mads] Gilbert, the Israeli offensive in such a densely populated place has created “massacres” because civilians stand “no chance of getting out of the line of…
Rick Sanchez of CNN is doing the best work on television on Gaza. Let us celebrate his innocent questions, his probing honest journalistic response to horror. He plays the rube, and it’s great. We need an American rube. He knows…
I try not to be cynical on this blog, as I try not to be cynical in life. Gets you nowhere. Lincoln told me so. Michael Scheuer wrote yesterday that Israel wants the Islamic world up in arms because it…