Ira Glunts just read an AFP story about the settlements and offers his translation: Olmert — I offered to evacuate 60,000 settlers. [It was easy to do because I will not be Prime Minister long enough to implement it, but…
I still love the New York Times. A great newspaper; here’s a simply perfect and objective account by Sebnem Arsu (with the help of many other reporters, including Isabel Kershner, whom this site has criticized) of an important incident, the…
On Monday night, Kathy Kelly, a longtime activist who spent a week in Gaza, came to the Bluestockings bookstore, a center for the next wave of activism on the Lower East Side, and said something I hadn’t heard before. As…
Yishai, an Israeli reservist, occupied a Palestinian home in Gaza during the recent assault. The family had fled. He saw that they had a computer and were privileged. He felt he could explain it all to them, and left them…
Haaretz is worried about a move to boycott Israel in the U.S., initiated by 15 professors. The first time this kind of thing has originated in the U.S., not Europe. Haaretz gives about 15 inches to the story, and challenges…
This morning Adam Horowitz wrote a post about Congressman Bill Pascrell’s journey to supporting relief for the people of Gaza in the House. The post prompted a journalist friend to send along the following story about a supporter of Pascrell…
Americans for Peace Now is one of the constituent organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The Conference of Presidents is basically a neocon outfit. Its leaders are hawkish and rightwing. It gave this fire-and-brimstone endorsement…
Reader Rob Browne sent along this interesting update on the Congressional letter to Hillary Clinton on rebuilding Gaza. First Browne points out that there are 62 signatories, not 60, as Reps continue to sign on. The latest are Marcy Kaptur…
One effect of Gaza is the greater respect Jimmy Carter is getting on this book tour than he got on Apartheid: It’s Apartheid in Apartheidville (I think that was the title). Here’s a fine interview by Reza Aslan at dailybeast….