The woman who Obama adviser Samantha Power (right) is listening to so intently in this picture is Maleeha Lodhi (left), a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., at a Harvard panel last month. The panel was absent neocons, and included…
Here neocon Ed Lasky, who deems Iraq a smashing success from his armchair, laments a report that Samantha Power escorted Obama to a recent realist-dominated dinner, a sign of her evident continuing influence, hosannah. Supporters of the American- Israel alliance…
Remember when everyone ran around after 9/11 saying, Why do they hate us? Well, are we still innocent? Ibrahim Kalin, an assistant prof at Georgetown, has this answer in a Turkish publication: After the 2009 Gaza massacre, the hawks in…
Turkey’s P.M. is about to meet with Ban Ki-Moon, who was stared down by Olmert yesterday. And thus American intransigence re the slaughter is undermining the authority of the international body.
A banner drop this morning over New York City’s West Side Highway, carried out by members of Jews Against the Occupation/NYC, declared “Jews Say: End Israel’s War on Gaza NOW!” Says the press release: “This action by Jewish New Yorkers…
A lobbyist friend of mine commented on the comparison between Gaza and Fallujah. He pointed out that while there are many similarities, at least in Fallujah Iraqis could escape, in Gaza the Palestinians have no where to go.
Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) speaking at a ‘pro-Israel’ rally in Washington, DC: “To misquote Shakespeare, something is rotten in Gaza and now it’s time to take out the trash.” (Another gem for the same article: “[Virginia Republican Congressman Frank] Wolf also…
Why isn’t this stuff in the New York Times? Yossi Sarid prays to Obama to impose a solution on two “prisoner” societies: And don’t get too upset by the Israeli lobby in Washington, whose voice is that of Benjamin Netanyahu…
LRB has a powerful collection of contributors condemning the slaughter. Excerpts: Yitzhak Laor: Israel is engaged in a long war of annihilation against Palestinian society. The objective is to destroy the Palestinian nation and drive it back into pre-modern groupings…