The great Uri Avnery has a new column saying that it’s Lieberman’s government; he has the key bloc. And the only upside is that in opposition, Tzipi Livni may at last be forced to embrace a real road to peace,…
Wonderful, yes, that today the Times ran George Bisharat’s op-ed piece saying Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. But Bisharat is a Palestinian-American. And do you notice the pattern? Jeff Blankfort does: I have noticed that, almost without exception, the…
Here’s another great shot by Sameh Habeeb from his show at the Dadabase Gallery in Vancouver of photos from Gaza, called Victim’s Victims. Habeeb worked for Iranian television during the onslaught, so I am going to assume that this journalist…
In this interview with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky points out that a great contribution of Jimmy Carter’s “bitterly-condemned” book was to publish Israel’s many exceptions to the Road Map, including no stop to settlement construction and so forth. Also that…
The AP from Jerusalem: two versions of the official Netanyahu cabinet photo were released. One is photoshopped to remove the two women in the cabinet, to placate the Orthodox objections to photographing women.
Portrait of an unidentified boy in Gaza. From an exhibit of photographs by Sameh Habeeb, a Palestinian living in Gaza, during and after the onslaught, at the Dadabase Gallery in Vancouver,with an accompanying essay on Palestine by Slavoj Zizek.
Last week we picked up Haaretz reports of a “secret deal” between Netanyahu and Lieberman to continue construction of a colony east of Jerusalem, known as E-1, that would all but bisect the West Bank. The Times of London has…
“For me, the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns. On a bus tour across the Galilee,…
This morning I got a between-the-eyes email from a Jewish friend: I in many respects finally “exited” from what was a lifelong communal Jewish space a number of years ago. It was liberating. It was Lebanon 2006 that finally did…