Laura Rozen over at the Foreign Policy blog The Cable has posted Hillary Clinton’s prepared answers to questions from the Senate Foreign Policy Committee. When it comes to Israel/Palestine it seems Clinton thinks everything is going great. She would seem…
The lead headline this morning on Haaretz.com – “Livni: Gaza offensive is good for the Palestinians.” (Update: I guess someone from the Foreign Ministry got through to Ha’aretz. The headline for the same article has now been changed to -…
Can someone please explain to me what Yoel Marcus means when he says, “Killing children is a matter of politics” in his Ha’aretz article titled, “It’s not Israel’s fault it has a strong, well-run army”? The line after that goes:…
While the US media gets reports from Joe the Plumber, here’s the news from Day 17: Watch Al Jazeera English live on your computer over Livestation.
Safa Joudeh writing from Gaza for Al Jazeera: Jalal’s story echoes the accounts I have heard many times before from my grandfather and others who lived through the Palestinian ‘nakba’ or catastrophe in 1948. “We fled the bombing of British…
Amira Hass reports in Ha’aretz: As of Sunday, the streets of Gaza are full of people fleeing – both from Sheikh Ajleen, an area with open fields and houses, where battles between Hamas gunmen and Israel Defense Forces soldiers are…
Disappointed that Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir) didn’t say a word about Gaza while accepting his Golden Globe, just a vague anti-war sentiment. Lost opportunity.
Alas Haaretz is also succumbing. It reports that there were pro-Israel demonstrations around the world to counter “anti-semitic demonstrations.” A photo Haaretz uses shows a young man with long hair holding a sign in New York: “Kick Hamas’ Ass.” That…