Do not be confused by the ceasefire, the siege of Gaza continues. From the Israeli human rights organization Gisha (emphasis their’s): On “the day after” the fighting in Gaza, the magnitude of the death and destruction continues to come to…
Anees, our Jerusalem correspondent, offers this roadmap of the Israeli relationship to the Palestinian minority: Early 1970’s: “We have no solution… You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this…
An exchange between Abe Foxman and Bill Moyers. The Foxman letter you’ve read 1000 times. The news here is Moyers’s letter: [A Norwegian doctor on CBS said,] “It’s like Dante’s Inferno. They are bombing one and a half million people…
Jeff Blankfort just emailed me to say I need a photo, and he’s right. I love Arab portraits because I know so little about Arab culture and want to know more, want to enter the dream of the Palestinian kids….
[A pool in Haifa. Before the Nakba.] My wife has picked up the refrain that I’m a post-Zionist. “You’re a post-Zionist! Let me explain why,” she declares. “Post- means that you’re not engaged in that old energy. Anti- means that…
From the YNet article “Testimony from Gaza: Will take decades to rebuild”- Abu-Dakka said that up until now his 70-year-old father has refused to leave his home, despite its proximity to the border fence with Israel and the IDF troops….
James Howard Kunstler is an important writer. His blog has a huge following for good reason. As Glenn Condell explained to me: I have been reading him for about three years; he has (equipped with the work of Nouriel Roubini,…
“Catastrophically misguided and incomprehensible policy,” the great Kushner tells Democracy Now, at a JATO demonstration last night in the cold in New York. It has gotten easier to speak out within the Jewish community in the last few years, says…
Safa Joudeh writing from Gaza for Al Jazeera: Jalal’s story echoes the accounts I have heard many times before from my grandfather and others who lived through the Palestinian ‘nakba’ or catastrophe in 1948. “We fled the bombing of British…