Ralph Seliger has responded to Saif Ammous’s latest response to him re the right of return: Mr. Ammous obviously doesn’t want to come to an understanding with me. The fact that a Zionist like myself does believe in a moral…
Lately Ralph Seliger responded here to Saif Ammous on the issue of refugees from ’48, saying that the compensation envisioned by the Geneva initiative of ’03 is sufficient to extinguish the right of return. Below Saif Ammous responds. I’d offer…
On my way to the Brooklyn Friends’ meeting house last night for a presentation on a Palestinian village in the West Bank that has lost its land to the Israeli army, I talked by phone with a friend who sighed…
Last year Saif Ammous and Richard Witty had a dialogue about Zionism in this comment section. Now Ammous and Seliger are having a dialogue about the right of return, in posts, this being the last, from Ammous, yesterday. I’ll keep…
Notice that Desmond Tutu is saying that the west is salving its Holocaust guilt by enabling Israel in anything it chooses to do. This is wonderful and helpful, and echoes what Mike Desch has said in his landmark paper on…
Ehud Olmert says exactly what John Mearsheimer says: it’s looking more and more like a binational state. The prime minister told the committee that there is a concern over “the entrenchment of the narrative of a binational state, in which…
Honoring the 60th anniversary of the Nakba-era murder of Count Bernadotte with some quotations supplied to me by Nim Chimpsky, a primate who has brilliantly mimicked human speech, from the book Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations With a Militant Israel,…
As I wrote last night, Folke Bernadotte was killed by Jewish terrorists loyal to Shamir’s Stern Gang in Jerusalem 60 years ago. “When [Yitzhak] Shamir became foreign minister of Israel, he greeted UN official Brian Urquhart by saying that he…
Nakba-denying Commentary Magazine has chosen to expand and magnify its distortion of the Palestinian experience in its latest issue by printing Efraim Karsh’s response to a critical letter pointing out that Karsh elided Arab testimony about the events of 1947-48…