Ma’an reports that an ethics committee from the Norwegian gov’t will be going to the West Bank at the end of the month to investigate what the government pension fund has invested in. It owns shares of the Africa Israel…
David Rose is reporting in Vanity Fair that back in 2004, nearly 3 years before the U.S. included Sunnis in efforts to end the insurgency in Iraq, Sunnis reached out to the Americans and were rebuffed. Rose says it was…
Bible Study For Atheists interviewed David Plotz, Slate editor, about Good Book, his book on reading the Old Testament: [Vast Left]: One thing I really wasn’t prepared for was how explicit the OT was about how the Israelites were to…
Pope Benedict XVI visited Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem today. The Pope chooses his words carefully. He gave an address that began, amazingly, by hinting at the right of return, and then spoke movingly of the lack of freedom in…
IbnEzra, an Israeli peace activist in the West Bank, writes about moving to Tel Aviv a couple of years ago and pledging to stay for three years, in exchange for generous financial gifts from Israel and an American pro-immigration outfit:…
I missed this: on its blog, The Times published the wonderful illustration of the West Bank Archipelago–the Palestinian areas shown as islands in a sea–drawn by Julien Bousac and published at Strange Maps, in a blogpost saying how difficult it…
I missed this: on its blog, The Times published the wonderful illustration of the West Bank Archipelago–the Palestinian areas shown as islands in a sea–drawn by Julien Bousac and published at Strange Maps, in a blogpost saying how difficult it…
More criticism of the New York Times article on Israel’s ongoing strategy to control Jerusalem from an insightful reader in New York who reminds us of the local angle: The New York Times failed to tell its New York readers…
David Bromwich shares my criticism of the New York Times’s article on the Israeli plans to take more land in east Jerusalem: A few details warrant further notice in the Bronner-Kershner story on the urban-renewal-by-monument-making that Israel has used to…