Haaretz: In Iranian-Israeli brinksmanship, Obama is powerless By Bruce Wolman March 3, 2010 38 Aluf Benn in this morning’s Ha’aretz describes an increasingly dangerous poker game being played out…
What it means to go to Ben Gurion airport with an Arab friend By Lia Tarachansky March 3, 2010 19 I’m too distracted to fall asleep. Everyone is quietly snoring. The sun rises ever so…
Chas Freeman: This time apartheid has western complicity By Chas Freeman March 3, 2010 65 Impolitic as it is to mention this, in rejecting the analogy with apartheid in South…
‘This is New York. This is the moment’ (IDF benefit dinner) By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 11 Next Tuesday night at the Waldorf, there’s a $1000-a-plate dinner to support the Israel Defense…
Define ‘loose cannon’ (Peretz attacks ‘old’ Jews who go to ‘gentile soirees’) By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 11 Here’s why you should read the Financial Times. Its Israel coverage gets Marty Peretz really…
‘LA Times’ says Republican rivals to challenge Senator Boxer are out-Israeling one another By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 15 Jacob Heilbrunn covers the argument among Republicans over the Israel bona fides of Tom Campbell,…
People never change their views By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 25 Actually they do. Look at the distance that Henry Siegman, born in 1930, has traveled.…
Party line is PEP (Progressive except for Palestine) By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 10 Maureen Dowd is afraid to say a word against Israeli "democracy," but blasts Saudi gender…
Democratic discourse in D.C.: Neocons and ‘good Palestinians’ By Philip Weiss March 3, 2010 5 Tomorrow John Kerry will hold a hearing on Israel/Palestine in which there will be three…
You be the judge By Ira Glunts March 2, 2010 34 Steven Gutkin, AP: JERUSALEM — Jerusalem’s mayor unveiled a plan Tuesday to demolish dozens of…