The NYT runs verbatim 250-word statement from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak justifying the ground invasion… “We are not war hungry.” Another service to readers…
I think our side needs to be logical and factual and unrelenting. Note the weird defensive hysteria in the way that neocon Barry Rubin says the world has turned against Israel over this, and compares Hamas to Nazis… Even the…
Holdout neocon Barry Rubin, at a Harvard website: this is not an issue of Gaza or of Israel alone. The great issue of our era, of our remaining lifetimes, is the battle between radical Islamismâwhether using the tactic of terrorism…
As’ad AbuKhalil, California State’s Angry Arab, describes Gaza as a form of self-destruction by Israel: To give you an idea what Israel will have to deal with (and what will bring about the eradication of Zionism from Palestine ), I…
From today’s report by the UN office of the coordination of humanitarian affairs: 432 killed, 2200 injured. Water cut off for 30,000 people and endangered elsewhere. Bread rationing, due to wheat shortage; long lines at bakeries. The American International School…
Two anti-Zionist voices. First, Jeff Blankfort: The Israelis admit that this current war is partially to restore the deterrent factor of the IDF that was ripped to shreds by Hizbollah in 2006, as it was during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon…
Today I got another email from a Jewish friend worrying about the consequences to Jews of Israel’s actions in Gaza. I’ve heard the same concern from non-Jewish friends, including a Muslim. Israel is showing shocking indifference to Arab life; and…
From the Independent, Johann Hariri: Before it falls down the memory hole, we should remember that last week, Hamas offered a ceasefire in return for basic and achievable compromises. Don’t take my word for it. According to the Israeli press,…
Ilan Pappe in the Electronic Intifada: It seems that even the most horrendous crimes, such as the genocide in Gaza, are treated as discrete events, unconnected to anything that happened in the past and not associated with any ideology or…