Available here. (Thanks to Mohammad of Vancouver) Oh and here is the full text as submitted to the UN by the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Rachel Maddow appears to justify the U.S. boycott of the U.N.’s racism conference in Geneva. Disappointed. Maddow comes out of my world: alt-privileged lefties in the northeast who don’t go in for Establishment values. Feels sellout-ish. Rachel, spend some political…
JTA says that the CQ story on the taping of Congresswoman Jane Harman’s phone call with an “Israeli agent” back in ’06, in which she allegedly offered to do her part to end the Justice Department’s espionage case against former…
Typically, because I saw so much wisdom in it, I pushed Bruce Wolman to publish the short note he sent me yesterday, It’s gotten a lot of comment, as you can see. Wolman is a more considered writer than I…
Anees writes from Jerusalem (where alas, he is a second-class citizen): I usually avoid reading Thomas Friedman, but I was intrigued by the title, “In the Age of Pirates”. He does not specifically say it, but what he writes can…
The chief purpose of this website rightnow is to defenestrate the piece of propaganda that Mort Zuckerman published on the supine Huffington Post yesterday with the headline, “The Story You Aren’t Hearing About Israel.” Below are 5 critiques of the…
Oh me of little influence– I saw the significance of Trita Parsi’s book Treacherous Alliance 18 months ago. Well Laura Rozen at Foreign Policy says that the book’s sales have spiked lately because of Roger Cohen’s superb endorsement in the…
By James North “Orientalism” is much more than just prejudice against Arabs and Muslims. Edward Said, who did more than anyone to explore the ideology, explained that Orientalism can include a genuine interest in the languages and (ancient) history of…
This mock-realist piece by David Samuels on Slate arguing for an Israeli strike on Iran is outlandish in a number of ways. Most outlandish: Samuels’s assessment that it is a “fiction” that there would be a “mass public outcry” in…