Horrifying, world-changing events always have an upside. Gaza has shown Americans, as never before, the mature power of Arab journalists. Their voices are in our media to stay. Three examples. Here is the Washington Post’s Abdel Kareem’s stirring report on…
Tony Karon’s words fall like hammers in this piece saying that Israel has lost the war, that it never fixed its borders, that Nakba is intertwined with Israel’s existence, and that Palestinian resistance is completely understandable: Arafat is dead and…
[Update. Note to readers. This item seems to be based on a hoax email. Apologies.] I know things are different across the pond, but when would the AJC, the Conference of Presidents or AIPAC ever send out something like this?…
Report from muslimnew.co.uk, no link: The Israeli army have shot six people with a new weapon in the West Bank villages of Jayyous and Ni’lin while the villages were demonstrating against the Israeli massacres in Gaza…. The new bullet is…
I need to perseverate about Charlie Rose’s show the other night. Both Robert Simon and Andrea Mitchell, his two media-elite Jewish guests that night, offered the same bluntly-honest statement about Israel’s motivation: It is political in that Israel doesn’t know…
I’m told this is a photo of Gaza pre-Nakba from this site. Arabic readers, tell me if I have the i.d. wrong. John Pilger makes the Holocaust analogy, with emphasis on western responsibility: For what happens in Gaza is the…
Glenn Greenwald has another great piece in Salon attacking the lockstep support for Israel in Congress in the face of massacres. The problem is that the astute Greenwald still has no explanation of why we are experiencing this meltdown in…
The Forward has launched another shot across J Street’s bow, declaring that its brave coalition of 4 leftwing groups was a total failure on Capitol Hill in the ongoing legislative battle. anger over J Street’s statement [criticizing the Israeli assault…