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Here is something that Richard Silverstein, whose progressive Jewish blog I recommend (Tikun Olam, http://www.richardsilverstein.com) tried to say about the question Read More
Public broadcasting stars Terry Gross and Judy Woodruff have both now paddled Jimmy Carter for the “provocative” title of his book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. In each case the gentlemanly grandfatherly prez bore up beautifully under the treatment, stuck to his guns. I chose the title deliberately, Carter said, because Americans don’t understand the situation Read More
The midterm election was decisive—the election of 1874, that is. The Republicans went from a 111-seat lead over the Democrats in the House of Representatives to a 79-seat deficit. The Democrats also picked up numerous governorships and state legislatures. President Ulysses Grant still had two years to go in his second term, and the Senate Read More
I left Israel last summer with the awareness that the people there live in misery. I was moved by a friend’s grim summary of the situation: “The Arabs don’t want us here, they just don’t. So we have to accept that there will be one war after another.” One war after another? That’s misery.
David Read More
On Friday, the Nation magazine hosted Yizhar Be’er, who directs a media monitoring organization in Israel called Keshev. (The group’s president is David Grossman, the writer, who lost his son, a tank commander, in Lebanon last month.)
The theme of Be’er’s comments was the danger of unilateralism—the policy of going it alone in Read More
JERUSALEM, Israel, DATETK?–Fresh from the battlefield in southern Lebanon, disgruntled soldiers from reservist battalion 8101 camped out across the street from the prime minister’s office in a small park and trained their sights on Ehud Olmert.
They were there to demand resignations from Mr. Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and Army Chief of Staff Read More
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 18—The road to Damascus was bombed again early this morning, the seventh day of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah. And though it is still possible to get from Beirut to Damascus along secondary mountain roads, the perils of the journey have pushed the price of the trip up Read More
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 18—The road to Damascus was bombed again early this morning, the seventh day of fighting between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah. And though it is still possible to get from Beirut to Damascus along secondary mountain roads, the perils of the journey have pushed the price of the trip up Read More
In a pro-Israel rally yesterday outside the Permanent Mission of Syria to the U.N., Observer contributor John Koblin reports, Anthony Weiner and Eliot Engel both singled out Syria for enabling Hezbollah’s recent missile attacks.
Weiner began his speech to the crowd of more than 100 demonstrators by citing a Damascus connection to the missiles that Read More
PBS’s “Frontline” aired a documentary last night called The Dark Side about the manipulation of intelligence by the vice president’s office in the runup to the Iraq war. This is now an old story, but it was well-told. Frontline assembled a number of former intelligence analysts to show how the CIA’s usual standards of Read More
