“Surgical strikes.” Our foreign aid at work. Photos from Gaza by Eva Bartlett of the International Solidarity Movement. More fotos here. And if you find them disturbing, just imagine the effect across the Arab world. Also, imagine if 275 Israelis…
I asked Steve Walt about Gaza. His response: I keep thinking that what the US should do is work to get a sharply-worded UN security council resolution condemning the attacks. Let the French or the British sponsor it if we…
Adam Horowitz writes: The year in Gaza started on January 23, 2008. That is when, under the stifling pressures of Israeli, and internationally-supported, siege the Gazans broke out. Hamas was credited with blowing several holes in the border wall between…
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?