Syrian Ambassdor to Washington Imad Moustapha on Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show today, saying that the U.S. has sustained the criminal occupation. He’s cautiously optimistic with Obama, but: Moustapha warned that Mitchell will be more limited in peacemaking efforts between Arabs…
This photo (by Mamoun Wazwaz, for the Maan News agency) depicts Palestinian leader Mustafa Bargouti at a graveyard in Hebron, where several Palestinian gravestones were desecrated by settlers. The accompanying article describes more settler violence in Hebron: an ambulance stoned…
Ruth Hiller from the Israeli organization New Profile sent along this important petition. As this site has reported multiple times, there is an ongoing effort to push Palestinians out of the city of Jaffa and growing political repression against the…
I went to dinner last night at a good friend’s, and there were beautiful Easter foods. I was the only Jew there, but didn’t think about that till today. There were some Europeans, and a Muslim. A sense of American…
Lately Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon stuck to her guns in the face of an attack by the Anti-Defamation League and said that the school will keep Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its commencement speaker, notwithstanding his criticism of…
Having blown the Obama seder story once today, I want another crack at it. The Washington Post gets it right: this is a lowkey, familiar event. Just look at that picture again. It’s an intimate setting, and the people seem…
Earlier this week the Washington Post continued the plague of the neoconservatives by running a piece by Elliott Abrams in favor of the Israeli colonies, and including this ugly statement: Settlement activity is not diminishing the territory of a future…
Everyone talks about putting pressure on Israel. What does that mean? Here’s a sage post by Steve Walt on what Obama should do in the face of Israeli intransigence re the two-state solution. Besides ending tax-deductible contributions to the settler…
I missed a stretcher. Yesterday Clark University President John Bassett wrote a letter seeking to justify his censorship of Norman Finkelstein, who had been scheduled to give a speech on campus, and his letter included this statement: What especially exaggerates…