Good for him: in tomorrow’s paper, the Times’ Ethan Bronner is addressing the “human cost” of the Gaza campaign. Two key grafs. [One week ago] Israel, seeking to end rocket attacks from Hamas militants, began a devastating airstrike campaign on…
Two top Egyptian soccer teams wore the same message on their uniforms as they came out to play a hotly-contested game today. The crowd also chanted for Palestine. I guess Arabs are people too? And this feeling is a global…
Nicholas Kristof holds the Anthony Lewis seat on the Times Op-Ed page. Kristof is W (worldly). And he’s liberal. Though he doesn’t have Lewis’s passion. All this to say that a lot of people are hoping he would have spoken…
A friend writes: I think you’ll find this UN methodology on civilian deaths as of 12/29 noteworthy. The UN would not even count a UN employee or trainee killed in Gaza as civilian unless she was a woman. That’s flawed….
I always blast Brit Tzedek on this site. Today Brit Tzedek sent me a transcript of a telephone press conference with a Washington rabbi/expert visiting Jerusalem, and I admit that just a day or two after my New Year’s resolution…
The BBC has done an important story on Israel’s use of youtube to propagandize its surgical war. The other day it posted dramatic footage of a missile hitting a truck with a lot of men around it. The YouTube video…
The great Richard Silverstein: Rabbi [Eric] Yoffieâs piece in the Forward proves to me that while he may have liberal instincts on many issues, when it comes to Israel he is little better than the mainline Israel lobby organizations. We…
Last night my wife and I were talking about a Jewish couple we know: where do they stand on Gaza? I’d run into this couple during the endless festivities of the new year and looked for some sign of outrage…
I was a little hard on J Street in my last post. Oh well. At least they’re trying. Without recanting my position, here are some extenuating points. Donna Edwards, a freshman congressperson from Maryland endorsed by J Street, has a…