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…
I get to cry for great Jews on this site. This morning’s tears are for Jonathan Ben-Artzi, a conscientious-objecting nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu, interviewed here on Al-Jazeera, speaking of an unjust war against 1.5 million people denied the rights of…
I’m hell with Arab names. Sorry, I grew up with the same orientalism that Goldberg of Arabia did. But last night I published an allegation from the ingaza blog of a methodical Dier-Yassin like massacre in Zaytoun, which is evidently…
We are being tested, as Dan Levy said last night. Many great voices are speaking out. J Street and Brit Tzedek have covered themselves with honor. Andrew Sullivan, Dan Fleshler, David Bromwich and Glenn Greenwald have distinguished themselves on the…
Ethan Bronner has a great piece on the clamping down of the international press. He is distinguishing himself. Like all wars, this one is partly about public relations. But unlike any war in Israel’s history, in this one the government…
I just got off the phone from a conference call with Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation. It was arranged by Brit Tzedek, and it was just a beautiful call. We really have to honor the Jews who are…
Steve Walt poses a thought experiment: philosophy professor Joseph Levine at University of Massachusetts: what if Hamas was hiding out among the civilian population of Tel Aviv, and attacking Israel from within? Would the IDF be using massive force to…