Today – front page, above the fold – the New York Times helped build the case that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. The article “In Shattered Gaza Town, Roots of Seething Split” includes stories of schools and houses Israel…
This is my annual camping trip to the Adirondacks High Peaks. Heated hut. Though there’s a chance a couple guys will be in a leanto this year. My group came out of print media many years ago, but has broadened…
Leila Abu-Saba writes: The post on this site yesterday that mentioned the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al Hilweh in Lebanon in 1982 hit me personally. That camp is my turf, it is my ancestral soil, it…
Avrum Burg has a colloquium in Haaretz about the spiritual work necessary after the assault on Gaza. Much as I love Burg, and his brilliant, questioning spirit, this colloquium feels to me to be too Talmudic, too Israeli. Too Burgian,…
The “Spiegel settlement database” is already creating waves in Israel. Israeli NGO Yesh Din has announced they will use the database to help Palestinians sue Israel for reparations and the removal of settlements from privately owned land. To help get…
Phil Weiss: Yesterday I wrote to the pseudonymous journalist FE Felson: I’m thankful for your contributions to this site. A true joy I’ve had in the last couple years is meeting people who are smart, Not Crazy (which a lot…
The inimitable Morton Klein, in a piece published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: “Mitchell demands that Israel not allow even “natural growth” within the Jewish communities in the West Bank. This was not part of any agreement ever signed by…
The other day a member of my extended family sent out the email at the bottom of this post to every other member of the family: “It’s our land, by Benjamin Netanyahu.” I was shocked. I sent a note back…
Leon Hadar writes: I’m attaching a link to an interesting piece by an Israeli writer, Ofra Yeshua-Lyth, who raises an issue –religious identity cards–that should concern American-Jewish liberals/libertarians who assume that Israel is “like America.” A few years ago I…