Yesterday we noted a murderous incident, Palestinian against settler, in the occupied West Bank. Well there’s a back story worthy of Dickens. From the JPost: Yair Gamliel, the seven-year-old boy whose skull was fractured by an ax-wielding terrorist in the…
The National Lawyers Guild has issued its report following its delegation’s trip to Gaza. You will find overwhelming evidence that Israel showed a complete disregard for civilian life. The snipings of the elderly, the white phosphorus in neighborhoods and schools,…
For the racism/Orientalism file. Daniel Pipes says that Avigdor Lieberman’s speech left him “elated.” It said, “Israel is back.” And this guy has standing? Yes. I saw him at a jammed Philadelphia synagogue that would never invited the great Noam…
Jeff Blankfort calls this Jewish McCarthyism, and I’m hard pressed to deny it. After Gaza–yes, Gaza changed everything–a Bay Area pro-Israel guy called Jim Sinkinson made a collection of angry letters re Israel published in the Berkeley Daily Planet and…
This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East. Well: Here is…
Michael Scheuer at antiwar.com, reports on a debate at Georgetown University last week hosted by the Doha Foundation. Scheuer and Avraham Burg argued for the U.S. to finally get tough on Israel, and Alan Dershowitz and Dore Gold arguing agin…
John Pilger in the New Statesman: Protected by the fake sinecure of Middle East envoy for the Quartet (the US, EU, UN and Russia), [Tony] Blair operates largely from a small fortress in the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, where…
Jack Ross writes: There’s a problem neither you or any of the reporters pointed out – it’s Netanyahu, not Lieberman, who’s more intractably opposed to a two state solution. It is precisely Lieberman’s support for a Greece-Turkey style population transfer…
A few weeks after his friend Michael Walzer pronounced on the “awfulness” of Gaza, Leon Wieseltier has had a similar epiphany: “I have a sickened feeling about the recent campaign in Gaza. No sovereign state can accept regular aggressions across…