Jack Ross writes: Here’s the money quote from the New Republic/Dissent piece on Gaza by just-war theorist Michael Walzer: The commentators and critics using [the word disproportionate] today, however, are not being cautious at all; they are not making any…
My pithy correspondent AC says: Shihab Rattansi of Al-Jazeera English interviews former Israeli UN ambassador Dan Gillerman (who, it must be remembered, deemed Carter a “bigot” with “bloody hands”) with devastating insistence and sarcasm. Gillerman has no crutches left by…
Adam Horowitz (filing from the mid-Atlantic): Both the House (H. Res 34) and Senate (S. Res. 10) bills that just passed supporting the Israeli invasion in lockstep included the phrase, “expresses vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security,…
What follows is an exchange of emails at Princeton today over a rally tomorrow at the campus. The exchange is being widely- and anonymously-circulated, so I’m going with it. The first letter is from Princeton Hillel director, Rabbi Julie Roth…
Moral philosopher and fabled lover Bernard Henri-Levy, at the New Republic: Not being a military expert, I will abstain from judging whether the Israeli bombardments of Gaza could be better directed, less intense.
Jeet Heer in the National Post of Canada.You heard that right, National Post: Events like the war in Gaza are likely to intensify the post-Zionism of young Jews. In the public debate in America, it is striking that the strongest…
More from my masked correspondent AC. My suspicion is that he’s an Anglo-Asian. I’ll let you know if I find out anything: B’Tselem has specifics on the Samouni family massacre. 31 members of the a-Samuni family killed in southern Gaza…
Four days into his new blog, Steve Walt has reponded to the smears against him by Jeffrey “Uh-oh, Discourse is Changing Fast, I Staked Out the Wrong Position on Gaza Slaughter” Goldberg and Russ Douthat. Walt specifically takes Goldberg apart…