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,…
How else to interpret the great Gideon Levy’s metaphor for the slaughter: Israel constructing a pipeline to ship blood? As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why….
From the Ynet article “Gazans say experiencing ‘another Nakba'”: Palestinians reported that many families have left their homes in Beit Lahiya’s al-Atatra neighborhood and are staying with relatives in “safer” areas. Hundreds of residents, who are afraid to travel in…
Here is Joseph Massad at Electronicintifada, using the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as the role model: On 12 May 1943, after he received word that the resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto was finally crushed and many of its fighters killed, [Szmul]…
Current articles on the Jewcy.com homepage: Standing: Israel, Hamas and a Perverse Inversion of Reality [Noah] Pollak: It’s Time for Targeted Assassinations Hamas as a Political Failure Pride, Fury, Fire Letter from Beersheva Shmuel Rosner: The Two-Sided Argument Over Gaza…