lest they be prosecuted for war crimes when traveling to arts festivals and policy conferences abroad… (thanks to Deika Mohamed for tip).
Phil Weiss: Good afternoon, fight fans. That headline is an homage to the late heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, who said after moving to Denver from Philadelphia, where he’d been arrested several times: “I’d rather be a lamppost in Denver than…
The world is changing. Yesterday, when most people were focused on Obama, Michael Ratner (who works at the Center for Constitutional Rights and pressed the lawsuit against Caterpillar springing from the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003) was…
I thought the speech was OK. I give it a B-. It seemed bookish, aloof. Wasn’t very inspiring. Few breaks for applause. It seemed as if Obama had holed up with a Bible and Lincoln’s speeches over the last three…
John Ging of the UN said Gaza was more disturbing than Rwanda or the Balkans, which he had also witnessed. How could that be? Those conflicts killed so many more people. Rwanda had horrifying scenes. My friend Mohammad, following up…
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…