Numerous headlines in mainstream American coverage of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip feature language about Israelis and Palestinians "exchanging rocket fire," which conveys to the American public the sense that it is a matter of a "battle" between two neighboring...
Playing With Fire, Both Israel and Ukraine Say, “No Truce for You”
The empire is in a particularly testy and truculent mood. Two of its appendages have, virtually simultaneously, eschewed ceasefires in their respective campaigns of aggression. Both have bombarded civilian centers with airstrikes, and Ukraine has been rolling in...
Five Broken Cameras
From Washington Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace: Five Broken Cameras Documentary Shows Israeli Incursions into West Bank Never Before Captured on Camera Busboys & Poets and Jewish Voice for Peace to sponsor special Peace Cafe discussion following July 15 showing at...
Newt Gingrich and Dave Weigel Will Bomb Knowledge Back to the Stone Age
SEE UPDATE BELOW. Dave Weigel is a history buff: [Newt Gingrich's] last full-on grapple with Romney came when the former governor attacked him, in a sort of more-in-sorrow-than-anger way, for saying that the Palestinians were an "invented people." That, said Romney,...
If That Ain’t (a) Country, It’ll Harelip the Pope
Noah Feldman discusses a possible outcome of the Palestinian statehood bid: He [Mahmoud Abbas] could also still do what most expected him to try this week: Take his request for statehood to the UN General Assembly, where the U.S. has no veto. A two-thirds vote there...
How to become collateral damage #37
Israeli military 'regrets' killing wrong man in Hamas raid, Unarmed Palestinian Amr Qawasme was shot dead during IDF operation to arrest militants in Hebron, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 January 2011 16.03 GMT OOPS! In the occupied West Bank, Israeli...
PR Advice to the Palestinians
I've heard a certain criticism countless times over the years, but after seeing it three times in two days on the same site, I decided to do a little research. From that vast repository of respectable opinion, The Atlantic, here are Jeffrey Goldberg, Andrew Sullivan,...
Jerusalem Post Cranks Out More Hasbara Fodder
In the course of approving news links this morning, I read this article from the Jerusalem Post that claims that Hamas has taken to seizing and selling truckloads of international aid "to the highest bidders." I looked for a few minutes for a mention of this in other...
The Spineless Huffington Post Gives ‘Equal Time’
Huffington Post was so very kind this week to give space to almost frustratingly moderate Palestinian intellectual Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi. In his well-reasoned article, "Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood," he supplied all the basic facts behind...
Say What You Will About Cynthia McKinney…
But no matter what one thinks of Ms. McKinney, she backs her convictions not just with her own money but her very skin: she went as a human rights advocate aboard a Gaza relief boat. And this morning, that boat was rammed three times by an Israeli patrol vessel, leaving it damaged and forcing it to take a detour in Tyre, Lebanon.