Obama’s main man David Axelrod was on “Face the Nation” this morning, assiduously not taking a position against Israel. Transcript: And now, from Washington, substituting for Bob Schieffer, CBS News correspondent Chip Reid. REID: Joining us now from Chicago, David…
Adam Horowitz writes: Collective punishment is defined as, “the punishment of a group of people as a result of the behaviour of one or more other individuals or groups. The punished group may often have no direct association with the…
Where is the great Anthony Lewis? Here: Ezra Klein at TAP: There is nothing proportionate in this response. No way to fit it into a larger strategy that leads towards eventual peace. No way to fool ourselves into believing that…
between this latest suicide bombing in Pakistan–further destabilizing that country and terrifying my reform-minded Islamic friends– and the slaughter in Gaza?
Adam Horowitz writes: Day two of the Israeli Gaza assault has begun. The final casualty figures from Day one include at least 230 Palestinians killed and over 800 injured, while one Israeli was killed and 6 injured. More Israeli air…
It’s just a theory, and yes I’m an optimist. But the grotesque events in Gaza rise above, well, the previous grotesque events in Gaza. And here is the great Glenn Greenwald attacking Marty Peretz for his disgusting rationalization of the…
The discourse is changing under our feet. I keep saying this, people. It’s true. Here is the pioneering Greg Mitchell writing in Editor & Publisher–and vocalizing consonants and vowels that you only usually hear in the European press… And note…
This morning I was thinking that the Gaza slaughter is like Deir Yassin. For Deir Yassin was rationalized and still is as a security operation, eliminating a hostile village near Jerusalemm, and it killed a hecatomb, over 100 people. The…
Richard Silverstein on the religious/literary angle: It is the seventh night of Hanukah, and Sol Salbe tells me that the military operation’s name, Solid Lead (or “Cast Lead”), derives from Chaim Nachman Bialik’s children’s poem, For Hanukah: Teacher bought a…