Dan Fleshler has an amazing post on the spin machine that Israel is mounting to justify the slaughter in Gaza. Couple quotes: I’ve been emailed advice, talking points and videos that are supposed to help me win the game of…
Obama has said that his role model is Abe Lincoln. Good. In the weeks after the 1860 presidential election, which Lincoln won with only 40 percent of the vote, on a platform against the extension of slavery, politicians worked to…
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…
The Union for Reform Judaism, fresh from its support for the Iraq war, is now cheering the Gaza slaughter as a proportional response to rocket fire from the blockaded territory, and celebrating the Bush administration for its support. Rabbi Eric…
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…