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…
Addameer, a Palestinian prisoner advocacy group in Jerusalem, is reporting that two journalists were arrested by Israel [statement here] in Jerusalem Tuesday for illegal reporting on the ground offensive. “They have been accused of reporting on Israel’s ground assault before…
A little more debate. National Journal is having an experts colloquium on Should we maintain a special relationship with Israel. The discussion was marked till yesterday by an absence of Realists, let alone lefties, and imbalance, with 6 of the…
History and analysis of how the U.S. fomented the Hamas-Fatah split and laid the groundwork for the Israeli invasion of Gaza–by the reliable Gareth Porter using standard sources. Condoleezza Rice has been wrong from the start, as wrong as she…
In Haaretz. Thanks to Richard Witty for tip. Yes antisemitism is real. So is anti-Zionism. Separate the strands, Jews, don’t recruit me in your holy war, let my people go.