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…
No wonder they didn’t want reporters there. Here’s more astonishing journalism about atrocities in the Gaza strip, this time by Don Nissenbaum of McClatchy chain: Souad Abed Rabbo said that she tied a white robe around a mop handle and…
It’s a brave new world. Jimmy Carter goes on Al-Jazeera to talk to Riz Khan, and I can watch him on my computer. Here’s a reference to Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk: [I]n the previous 16 years, most of the…
Some drama on the home front today. The magazine my wife works for went under just before noon. Domino. Fun smart magazine, 4 years old, killed by the recession. She was handling condolence calls all day, then went to bed….
Peter Voskamp writes: Stumbled upon Terry Gross and Fresh Air last night. Bizarre listening to Ethan Bronner and Gross sort of contort themselves to lay the blame, ultimately, at Hamas’ feet. Bronner offers some “horse race” analysis about the why…
A very strong statement posted on the Progressive Magazine site, by international writers and scholars calling for divestment and boycott ala South Africa, and urging American writers to join up. I see only a few Americans, Amiri Baraka, Ali Abunimah,…
Earlier today I posted Jimmy Carter’s statement on the Diane Rehm show in D.C. that he could throw a grenade over the separation wall in Israel/Palestine. Just listened to the actual show. He said that the wall was dreamed up…
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, in a letter congratulating Obama on his Inauguration and urging him to rectify the mistakes of the last administration. Also: “we join you in the march toward change, the change that will bring justice for all.”
60 congressmen have called on Hillary to press for the release of emergency funds to the UN to help rebuild Gaza, and push for the opening of more border crossings too. This is an anti-Israel lobby vote. Note the presence…