The world is watching. Astonishing footage of a woman with what sounds like an American accent standing in front of Israeli soldiers who are firing at Palestinian demonstrators. “You’re shooting at kids! Don’t you understand that?” she says. Brave brave…
Qana was the moment that destroyed Israel’s case in the Lebanon war. 50-odd people huddled in a house for fear. 28 killed by an airstrike. Half of them children: I watched the images of crushed bodies pulled out of the…
Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group in Jerusalem, is reporting that two journalists were arrested by Israel [statement here] in Jerusalem Tuesday for illegal reporting on the ground offensive. “They have been accused of reporting on Israel’s ground assault before…
A little more debate. National Journal is having an experts colloquium on Should we maintain a special relationship with Israel. The discussion was marked till yesterday by an absence of Realists, let alone lefties, and imbalance, with 6 of the…
History and analysis of how the U.S. fomented the Hamas-Fatah split and laid the groundwork for the Israeli invasion of Gaza–by the reliable Gareth Porter using standard sources. Condoleezza Rice has been wrong from the start, as wrong as she…
In Haaretz. Thanks to Richard Witty for tip. Yes antisemitism is real. So is anti-Zionism. Separate the strands, Jews, don’t recruit me in your holy war, let my people go.
Jack Ross reports: He takes on the Israel Lobby both in his opening segment and in his interview with David Gregory. Best moment is his response to Bloomberg visit to Israel in the opening segment. We’ll get to it Jack….
J Street will make no headway without the New York Times. J Street can always count on the Nation and has found the New Yorker sadly awol*. The Times did great work yesterday: “Warnings not enough for Gaza families.” And…
The Nation has a Gaza piece by Wallace Shawn that is pure intuitive genius. This is the Shawn we came to love with Aunt Dan and Lemon, political writing of majesty and writerly authority to match Doris Lessing’s. Thank god…