AP story saying that Obama might like to get involved with Israel/Palestine but it’s a black hole and Hamas is awful so who can champion 2 states. Actually, it’s not complicated: Palestinians have had no right of self-determination for 60…
Jeffrey Goldberg’s attack on George Bisharat’s op-ed in Saturday’s WSJ. A friend writes: It seems absurd to me to attempt to discredit Bisharat merely for wanting to extend equal rights to Israelis and Palestinians. Equal rights in 2009 is American…
My friend James North was just in Central America. Watched Al-Jazeera English all the time. It is stunning, he says, because the coverage is so professional and sophisticated. The panels aren’t loaded the moderators are smart. (Though I pity anyone…
Is there any diversity in our politics on this issue? I guess not. Al Franken and Norm Coleman, at a pro-Israel rally in Minnesota. Truly depraved. And David Paterson wearing his red hat of solidarity in New York yesterday, in…
AP: Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel’s military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the case of 10 burn victims who had skin…
Truly over-the-top column by David Harris of AJC invoking the Holocaust again and again as a reason to slaughter Palestinians for the sake of Jewish lives that the antisemitic world doesn’t care about as it cries “crocodile tears” for Palestinians….
Disappointed that Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir) didn’t say a word about Gaza while accepting his Golden Globe, just a vague anti-war sentiment. Lost opportunity.
AP said there were 150 people at the demonstration I was at today. That’s nuts. Saif Ammous says there were 15,000, conservatively. I left before it was over and wouldn’t have put the number that high, but 150 is truly…
Jews Sans Frontieres agrees with me re anti-Zionism. Jeet Heer at Sans Everything agrees with Dana Goldstein and my wife re post-Zionism Anne Silver says, Isn’t it a little indulgent of you to be wondering about your self-descriptive terminology when…