without the release of Gilad Shalit. So one Jewish life is always worth hundreds of Palestinian lives. (Thanks to Jeff Blankfort)
From Haaretz’s amazing story on the appeal that rightwing extremist Avigdor Lieberman holds for Israeli youth. Please someone tell me why this is not in the American press, while Haaretz cries out for our help? [One youth says,] “This country…
Phil Weiss thinks the Israel lobby has been transformed by recent events, and we are seeing it in decline (even as the damage is done in the Middle East). J Street, a Lebanese-American envoy, Barack Hussein Obama, talking to Iran….
Bernard Avishai describes his blog as being “responses mainly to rash opinions about Israel and its conflicts,” but the sober prof is becoming more and more despairing (and brave) about the future of Israel. His latest piece studies Nazi history…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I finally got to to San Francisco last week and went to see Waltz with Bashir. It was as I expected, designed to make the Israeli soldiers appear as victims and use the massacre at Sabra and…
Jeff Blankfort writes: I wouldn’t pay much if any attention to the Al-Quds poll. It is a Fatah [PA] organ that is not known for telling inconvenient truths. It had an English edition until sometime 1993 when the editor, amazingly,…
Jeff Blankfort stands up for Barbara Lubin’s report of a Sophie’s Choice story in Gaza. My point is, I love Barbara Lubin too, but as to this incident I want more precise information, and some names. Anecdote and journalism are…
I regard this blog as a clearinghouse for leftwing/realist ideas about the Middle East. That’s the only way I’m going to make it important, which is my goal. I am trying to move a lot of opinion by Arabs, Muslims,…
Even Barbara Lee, leftish congresswoman from Oakland and Berkeley, is ensnared in the tentacles of the you-know-what. Here is a wonderful letter to the Daily Planet by Henry Norr (born Jewish) scoring the Israel-occupied Congress: sad to say, the example…