New Yorker Rashid Khalidi on the Times Op-Ed page. Yes the Times op-ed page: The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and…
Oh ye of little faith. Today’s Times Op-Ed page is amazing, I’m told. I have only gotten to the Cohen piece but here’s the lineup. I see Kristof stepping out a little, Rashid Khalidi restored, and one or two other…
I believe we will look back on Gaza as the turning point in American Jewish identity/the life of the lobby. I said this ten days ago, I’m saying it again. And yes I’m a dreamer. Isn’t that why you’re reading…
Here’s the draft resolution being circulated by the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Download it here. Money quotes, and yes I mean money: “Whereas Hamas was founded with the stated goal of destroying the State of Israel; “Whereas Hamas has been…
This just in from a friend: Richard Stengel was on Morning Joe talking about the next issue of Time Magazine – cover story “Why Israel Can’t Win.” Cover not yet up on website. Main point was that Gaza attack is…
Jeff Blankfort: “Only a single member of Congress, Dennis Kucinich,has come out unequivocally against the Israeli war… the only paper to report Kucinich’s remarks was the Cleveland Leader.” Looks like Kucinich is getting pickup in other independent outlets. And Al-Jazeera…
I try not to forget, how both sides are brutalized. The great Amira Hass in Haaretz reports on Hamas executions. Since the aerial attack on Gaza began, Hamas has sought to suppress individuals it believes endanger the group’s fight against…
Here’s JTA’s report on the “eight Jewish women” who got inside the Israeli consulate in Toronto yesterday and staged a protest, were led away in handcuffs. “Israel purports to represent all Jews worldwide and these atrocities are not being committed…
Another Jew has passed the Gaza test. And the more status you have, the more Karmic bonus points you get. Menschy internationalist Roger Cohen, in the New York Times even allows himself to hint that Zionism is over. He’ll come…