Helena Cobban has published an amazing report on an interview she did with smiling senior Likud security-affairs specialist Efraim Inbar, who surely has Netanyahu’s ear. Somewhat shocking. A lot of racism dignified as the “Zionist ethos.” Incredible arrogance, which I…
A Zionist friend told me recently that polls show that most Palestinians living in Israel would prefer to live there than in neighboring societies; they like the freedom. He offered this as the smoking-gun of Israel’s advancement. I asked my…
I’ve been very interested lately in how Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections is changing how Americans view and understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Richard Cohen’s column in today’s Washington Post is another sign Lieberman is helping people cut…
I write my stuff so hurriedly these days that I seem to miss everything. I would just like to note that in the excerpt I offered yesterday from Bernard Avishai, Avishai points out that a Palestinian scientist who participated in…
A number of folks have sent me the Times piece about the Caryl Churchill play on Gaza that the New York Theatre Workshop is thinking of staging, 3 years after it cancelled the Rachel Corrie production and created an uproar….
Jack Ross writes: Leaving all moral and ethical considerations aside, what Herzl proposed in 1897, that all of the world’s then-20 million Jews settle in a historic Palestine then populated by 1 million Arabs, while practically absurd, was theoretically viable,…
From the rhythmed flikr page: Mohammed Al-Majdalawi, a friend and Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) volunteer in Gaza, has shared some very powerful images from Gaza. He took these photos throughout the 22-day Israeli attacks on Gaza as well as…
[From Jiser’s photostream.] Israel is screwed up because Israelis by and large have no communication with Arabs. That’s a simple fact. They don’t know Arabs and don’t trust ’em. I saw that for myself. Works both ways. But America is…
AC writes: And they ask, with unctuous curiosity, where is the Palestinian Gandhi? From a demonstration on Dec. 28th in Ni’lin, where “Israeli forces shot 20 year old Mohammed Khawaje in the forehead with live ammunition as he was demonstrating”:…