The Telegraph in England: With Israel barring foreign journalists from reaching Gaza, it is impossible to verify the account of what happened to the Samouni family emerging from eyewitness testimony provided by survivors. But different survivors all gave near identical…
JTA: Dennis Ross said the United States should back a cease-fire in Gaza only if it ensures that Hamas “can’t rebuild.” “We want some stability,” said Ross, a former top Middle East negotiator in the Clinton administration, in a talk…
Here’s the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto urging a rally over the crisis in Southern Israel: Join thousands across Canada in a national show of support for the people of Israel living with constant missile attacks by Hamas terrorists. Yes,…
Texting from hell, a Norwegian doctor who doesn’t want to leave: According to [61-year-old Mads] Gilbert, the Israeli offensive in such a densely populated place has created “massacres” because civilians stand “no chance of getting out of the line of…
Rick Sanchez of CNN is doing the best work on television on Gaza. Let us celebrate his innocent questions, his probing honest journalistic response to horror. He plays the rube, and it’s great. We need an American rube. He knows…
I try not to be cynical on this blog, as I try not to be cynical in life. Gets you nowhere. Lincoln told me so. Michael Scheuer wrote yesterday that Israel wants the Islamic world up in arms because it…
Posters of Ismail Haniya and Khaled Meshaal of Hamas, held by demonstrators on Tuesday (coincidentally, in Lebanon). Arabic is said to say, “The Leader” and “Steadfast.” Photo for AP by Mohammed Zatari.
The world is watching. Astonishing footage of a woman with what sounds like an American accent standing in front of Israeli soldiers who are firing at Palestinian demonstrators. “You’re shooting at kids! Don’t you understand that?” she says. Brave brave…
Qana was the moment that destroyed Israel’s case in the Lebanon war. 50-odd people huddled in a house for fear. 28 killed by an airstrike. Half of them children: I watched the images of crushed bodies pulled out of the…