It was the site of a 1948 atrocity. From Ha'aretz: The attack on April 9, 1948, killed anywhere from 108 to 254 [Arab] villagers - the number is still debated - and accelerated Israeli expropriation of land. One man's terrorist and all that...
I'm not sure if Christopher Hitchens has written a tribute to Edward Said yet. The Alex Cockburn article spotlighted on Antiwar.com today makes reference to Hitchens' recent ambush of Said. This essay from last week picks the ambush apart.
This Wesley Clark speech from May 2001 is one of the most disjointed, muddleheaded things I've ever read. It's also pretty enlightening. Gen. Clark not only wants the U.S. to keep pestering all the countries we currently pester, he'd like us to adopt Africa and work a...
From the Discovery Channel: The legendary Trojan War was won with the help of poisoned arrows, in one of the first attempts of biological warfare, according to the first historical study on the origins of bio-terrorism and chemical weapons. "In this celebrated epic...
Here's Fred Barnes slathering attention on Sen. Hillary Clinton on the Weekly Standard website: President Bush has a surprising defender of his contention that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction--Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York. "The...
I put this up as a comment on Gene Healy's blog earlier, so I might as well post it here, too. Healy wrote about Bush's recent interview with Brit Hume on Fox, and one of the funnier/scarier moments in the exchange when Bush said that he gets all of his info from Rice...
I'd rather see Congressman John J. Duncan (R-TN) in the White House. He has consistently opposed the war on Iraq, and for reasons I find more compelling. The speech linked to on Antiwar.com today is great, but it's what he's been saying all along. Check out this...
So a lot of readers are upset that we don't talk up the Kucinich campaign more often. Well, the Massachusetts branch of Kucinich for Prez is running my essay on Howard Dean from a few weeks ago, so I'll give them a little shout-out. Happy?
Faith Fippinger, a 62-year-old retired teacher, faces jail for travelling to Iraq before the war. On what grounds? For three months she travelled around Iraq, guarding oil refineries, teaching in schools and working in hospitals. But when she returned home there was a...
Gutsy essay in Ha'aretz about Israel's brutal youth. Batya Gur confronts a group of female soldiers harassing an elderly Palestinian: This was not one of the greater and more visible evils that take place around us daily, nor was it a disaster, only an insidious and...
