From the Israel Policy Forum site (quoting Yedioth Ahronoth): Ehud Barak is going to tell George Mitchell today that Israel plans to finish building 2000 units and won’t freeze construction in East Jerusalem. Oh–and freeze only lasts for three to…
From the Free Gaza Movement: [23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] – Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY (pictured right before leaving port), abducting 21 human rights workers…
Max Blumenthal has a great piece up on Huffington pointing out that even as the cable networks and MSM endlessly reprise the video killing of Neda Agha-Soltan in Tehran, they have ignored similar cold-blooded killings during protests in the West…
The other day I was having coffee with a well-connected neighbor, and going through the litany of Palestinian suffering in the occupied territories, when she nodded impatiently and said, “What’s the answer?” Then: “Do you believe there should be a…
Ezra Nawi will be sentenced tomorrow in a Jerusalem courthouse for allegedly assaulting a police office while attempting to stop a house demolition in the occupied territories. Today, The Nation has published an aptly titled article by Nawi – “Israel’s…
We’re in a conversation aimed at forming a new political combination. Inspired by Josh Ruebner’s tragicomic effort to pierce the veil on AIPAC’s influence in Congress, Grant Smith of IRMEP talks about the real nuclear “hegemon” in the Middle East…
A couple months back at the 92d Street Y, someone on a panel said that Bernie Madoff could have happened to any community. I mocked the comment at the time because it was willful indifference (on the part of a…
Dan Sisken reports on Congresswoman Donna Edwards’s town hall meeting earlier tonight in Silver Spring, MD: For the first hour or so, Edwards talked about how she had come to get involved in Israel-Palestinian issues and take a trip to…
Claire Messud has a short story in the New York Review of Books, set in Australia and the New Hebrides. I love the South Pacific. But I wonder how long before the NYRB takes up the leftwing responsibility of running,…