Mohammad of Vancouver notes that a French Jewish writer, Marek Halter, met with Khaled Meshaal of Hamas last month in Damascus and reports that Hamas would recognize Israel’s existence inside the ’67 borders.
Frightening country. Do we even know what Israel is? The other day Israeli soldiers fired warning shots toward the French consul-general and his colleagues as they returned from visiting Gaza. Israelis held the group up for six hours, too, at…
Mohammad of Vancouver has a new website up that sells t-shirts and buttons for Gazan relief. iheartgaza.org. Go there! –Phil Weiss
Phil Weiss: When he was young, my friend Mohammad of Vancouver, an art curator and graduate student, served in the Iranian army during the Iran-Iraq war. I asked him whether he’d observed or experienced torture, and how he feels about…