Sky Redoubt translates this heartbreaking passage from Haaretz Hebrew edition (more or less literal, abridged): Galit Popok [female] was married to Rama Kadara, a Palestinian from Gaza, and lived with him and their 6 children in Natzrat Elit [a mostly…
My friend Mohammad in Vancouver, who is from Iran, told me he was wearing his Star of David when he went to Norman Finkelstein’s talk last night and asked Finkelstein some hard questions. I asked Mo why he wears the…
Warning to the Israel lobby. It’s over. The whole thing is over. Gaza was a giant mistake. The 60 years of pulling the wool over Americans’ eyes and saying it’s equitable to the indigenous population and it makes sense when…
This counts as progress. Michael Kimmelman in the Times: BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany — Habbo Knoch, who runs the new Bergen-Belsen Memorial at the former concentration camp, invited various scholars and museum directors to a four-day conference here last week called “Witnessing:…
I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer’s just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted…
I got this news release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations today, citing news reports: AUDIO: ISRAELI SOLDIERS SHOT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS IN COLD BLOOD Quil Lawrence, The World, PRI, 1/21/09 Two weeks ago Khaled Abed Drabo was trapped inside his…
Yes, it’s in Europe, in the Irish Times…But the great thing that’s happening is that the Israel lobby no longer controls the debate over Israel/Palestine. Anybody’s allowed to register their opinion! What do you call that?
Some links and commentary by AC: A painful video from AJE on the war’s youngest victims. And did you read this? The futility of Israel’s bloody war only grows more undeniable. Regard the reception by some in Israel of the…
I wrote just now that many on the left believe that Israel destroyed the idea of the Jewish state with Gaza. This is the intellectual news of Gaza. As the center tries to hold on to what is left of…