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…
A month back I criticized Benny Morris, the Israeli military historian, for relying almost exclusively on Israeli sources for his Yale University Press history, 1948. I said that he should have looked at oral histories from Arabs who were expelled…
I was driving yesterday and heard Terry Gross interviewing presidential historian Michael Beschloss a year back about Harry Truman’s decision to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Beschloss puts Truman’s decision in his book on nine presidential decisions that…