The smooth Englishman on Al-Jazeera to whom I referred this morning is Shihab Rattansi, formerly of CNN, and a credit to the human race. Here is wonderful footage of him this afternoon interviewing first Dennis Kucinich at Congress–and asking him…
The Oakland Education Association, a union representing 2800 teachers, has taken a truly bold stance re Gaza: The OEA unreservedly condemns the murderous Israeli assault on Gaza, their deliberate targeting of the civilian population, including schools and hospitals, and Israel’s…
If you’re an idiot but pro-Israel, you can get a paid platform. If you’re sharply critical of Israel, it is extremely difficult to get paid to express those views. (Name me all the anti-Zionists in media jobs.)
David Bromwich writes: Thomas Friedman’s column today, his first on the bombing and invasion of Gaza, enthusiastically supports Israel’s actions as part of a Middle East strategy that Barak Obama ought to endorse. Friedman writes, he says, on behalf of…
I was cutting firewood right now in the ice when I realized that I’d left the most important part of Dana Goldstein’s post out in my last post. Here it is: As a writer with the last name “Goldstein,” I’ve…
Dana Goldstein in The American Prospect: I never, as a rule, write about the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’m going to break that rule today… It’s not just that military solutions have a poor track record of solving problems of terrorism in…
Today good liberal Brian Lehrer dedicated a lot of his show on WNYC, the New York public radio station, to dialogue about Gaza. All was undertaken in an earnest manner, and yet I found myself bridling. The dialogue consisted of…
This AP story bears great news, that a ceasefire might be accepted by Israel and Hamas. Notice that the key figures are Sarkozy and Turkey. While Condi Rice attacks Hamas. Also note the horrifying figures: 670 dead, more than 300…
Robert Fisk says 600 Palestinian dead in a week represents “atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.” He’s on to something. The unkillable neocons are looking at the same violence and of course blaming Hamas and…