My New York Review of Books arrived in my mailbox yesterday, and it has one piece on Gaza by Roger Cohen that’s very good but not great. I wrote about it a few days ago; it seems to me to…
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,…
Livni seemed flummoxed at the National Press Club last week. And now there’s this. Yedioth Ahranoth reports: Israel’s concerns about possible international lawsuits following Operation Cast Lead is apparently growing, as even the fate of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s trip…
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…
It came of age. Glory to the human spirit and the universal love of truth! Lawrence Pintak of Cairo in a fine piece at CJR: The kind of borderless journalism these channels increasingly offer creates the potential to replace the…
A fine piece on Slate by Andres Martinez about the unsavory company the Times is giving itself by taking Mexican mogul Carlos Slim Helu’s $250 million. Key excerpt: the scale of Slim’s fortune, and the extent to which it was…
“Reevaluate Aid to Israel” is this resolution posed on Obama’s citizen-briefing website, which promises to pass along the popular ideas to the President. There are 717 responses to the resolution, and most seem to agree. Wow. Only marijuana reform seems…
Jordanian doctors returning from Gaza held a press conference in Amman to assert that 90 percent of the wounds they treated were caused by white phosphorus. Here are photos from the International Solidarity Movement that appear to confirm the use…
Obama’s post-tribalism is opening doors all over Jewish life for ecstatic idealism rather than the murderous logic of Israeli expansion. And suddenly this website is part of a new wave in Jewish life! The eight Jews affiliated with the International…