Obama’s White House is now online. The White House’s foreign-policy agenda begins by vowing “to seek a lasting peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” But then three paragraphs of absolute support for Israel no matter what is very disappointing. Not a…
Ban Ki-Moon saw the “heartbreaking” devastation in Gaza and expressed anger over apparent war crimes. How long will the west be feckless? From the AP: In the crowd outside the U.N. headquarters in Gaza, engineer Abu Murad Ghaleb, 40, criticized…
Fabulous reporting by Charles Levinson in the Wall Street Journal: “Hamas is now our army, the only ones fighting to defend the Palestinian people,” said Gaza resident Ahmed al-Sultan, standing outside the rubble of the north Gaza City home his…
Do not be confused by the ceasefire, the siege of Gaza continues. From the Israeli human rights organization Gisha (emphasis their’s): On “the day after” the fighting in Gaza, the magnitude of the death and destruction continues to come to…
From Phil Weiss: Last night I posted a comment by my new friend Mohammad on Gaza in which he called it “genocide.” I felt somewhat uncomfortable with the word, but I am trying to get this blog open to Muslim/Arab…
Whatever Barack Obama is or isn’t, a mystery we will get to unfold for many years, we know who George Bush is: a tragic figure. Look at him now. He’s crumpled, thin, gray, and angry. I remember him eight years…
Chuck D, from the hip hop group Public Enemy, once called rap music “the CNN of black America.” Looks like its getting the word out for anti-Zionist Jews as well: This song, “The Emperor’s Clothes,” from Detroit rapper Invincible was…
Watch this. It is a beautiful video called Numu Numu, an Israeli lullaby, set to pictures of Israeli might and Palestinian destruction. Found on a blog of Hadash supporters (an Arab-Jewish party), it is old but perfect for now. The…
The fighting has stopped, for now. Although it is quite possible the violence will restart as soon as Obama starts to get comfy in his new office tomorrow, its not too early to begin to ask – how will this…