Avi Shavit busts loose on the insanity of Olmert’s war. it is destroying Israel. Destroying its soul and its image. Destroying it on world television screens, in the living rooms of the international community and most importantly, in Obama’s America….
The Forward does a piece on Olmert “shaming Rice” (what Pat Buchanan has called the last “poodle” moment for Olmert and Condi): “I have no problem with what Olmert did,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “I…
The Telegraph: European human-rights leaders talk about war crimes. But Arab states are largely unmoved by Gaza’s plight because they fear Islamic militancy in their own states.
I think the idea of a Jewish state might be over. I hesitate to declare such things because I’m so far away, but certainly its international legitimacy has been dealt a serious blow. And here is Zionist Bernard Avishai saying…
It is impossible to imagine a more nightmarish story than the story Adam Horowitz put on this blog last night about Dr. Ezz-El-Din Abu El-Aish (at left) crying on his cell phone, in Hebrew, on a live Israeli news broadcast…
As we say in Yiddish, that’s a Jewish punim, a Jewish face. Look at the giant schnozz. Look at the owlish glasses and intelligent eyes, the pink Kazakhstan skin and the goofy smile. I want to kiss that Jewish punim…
The problem with the New York Times is that it has deferred to authority figures on Gaza. Benny Morris, Jeffrey Goldberg, Tom Friedman, Oz or Yehoshua (who can remember?). That’s unfortunate. It should be running the pieces of people who…
Nope. It’s Madoff: A Jewish Reckoning. A materialist reflection on Jewish values. Marty Peretz glows that Yivo had not a dime with the conman.
AC writes: According to Al-Mezan, the Palestinian human rights org (whose casualty figure has been oddly conservative, lower than that used by most media outlets), the vast majority of those killed have been civilians, with only 14 percent being fighters….