Adam Horowitz writes: Today the Christian Science Monitor has a piece by Alan Dershowitz defending Israel’s actions. I could respond to his article point by point, but it’s really just the same justifications for collective punishment that he and other…
Here’s the senior senator from Illinois, a good liberal. Email sent out by aide Max Gleischman. And if you think I’m not noticing the Jews, you’d be wrong. DURBIN STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN GAZA Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) released…
Today I got an email from a Jewish friend saying No, no, no, (Amy Winehouse style) Obama should not have let a Jew speak for him on Gaza– David Axelrod making the evasive Gaza statement of Sunday. Didn’t know what…
Jack Ross sent along this piece attacking Marty Peretz’s rebarbative response to young Jewish online journalists who are enraged by Gaza. Peretz called the kids selfhating Jews, or words to that effect: “hatred of their inheritance.” (Son, here is your…
A friend writes: War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, noted Ambrose Bierce. Unfortunately, Rand McNally is interfering with this grand American tradition. This weekend I purchased a $16 laminated Rand McNally world map for my nephew. After seeing…
From the New York Times article “Israel Rejects 48-Hour Cease-Fire Plan”: The Nakhala family, which lives next to the [government] compound [in Gaza City], was inspecting the damage on Tuesday morning and recounting the utter fear and panic they all…
The true and savage mystery of the New York Times is why the paper of record turned to Benny Morris yesterday to tell people how to think about Gaza. This is one reason why the internet is surpassing newspapers as…
Sandy Tolan in the CSM says Gaza is the crossroads for Obama, and he’s right. If Obama says the wrong thing, if he fails to condemn Israel’s disproportionate horrifying violence– as Miliband has condemned, in England– then he loses the…
Leon Hadar: After reading [Benny] Morris today [“Why Israel Feels Threatened,” a headline that will go down in infamy –Weiss] I recalled the advice that the late Israeli PM Levi Eshkol (who headed the Israeli government in 1967) had given…