And this was on Huffpo– Absolutely stunning piece in the Independent, by Fares Akram, who, huddled with his pregnant wife and family in Gaza city, and decided not to be on his 48-year-old father’s farm, the closest farm to the…
Andrew Sullivan has a great post on Arabs as human beings, the implicit target of which is actually Jewish ethnocentrism/neoconservatism. He is now justly angry at the McCain campaign for this ideological/religious/ethnic cargo. Again I ask: Where was the discussion…
Angry Arab As’ad AbuKhalil, as contemptuous of Arab leaders as I am here of American ones, has translated the Iraqi poet Mudhaffar An-Nawwab in a desperately sad verse: “…and the sun could rise setting due to our sadness, hunger speaks…
Stephen Walt, the co-author of The Israel Lobby, today personally demonstrates that the third rail of American politics is on the blink. A year after the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank sought to smear him as a crypto-Nazi, he’s in business…
Yesterday I analogized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the subjugation of urban blacks in the U.S. in the 70s. Of course the other apt historical analogy is to American Indians. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 2 and 1/2 years…
We’re living in amazing times: Take your stand or lose yer sole. Hundreds of shoes in London yesterday after demonstrators tried to throw them into Downing Street. Photo by Fiona Hanson/PA. From the Guardian
Israel has decided to let EIGHT foreign journalists into Gaza to cover the invasion. Ha’aretz reports in the article “Foreign journalists vie for the few slots to get into Gaza”: In contrast to the open policy that prevailed during the…
The New Republic seems to depend on former IDF soldiers for more of its Israel coverage than just about anyone else. Benny Morris, Jeffrey Goldberg. And here is Michael Oren, today, on the ground in Gaza, fresh from the thinktank,…