The following letter was sent to the New York Times on January 13 by Charles D. Smith, professor of Middle East History at the University of Arizona: Mark Landerler’s discussion of differing opinions among US Mideast experts vying for key positions in the Obama administration (“From US Experts on Mideast, There’s No Shortage of Advice”…
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Bombs won’t maintain the “dream”
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah warned on Monday that a 2002 Arab initiative offering peace with Israel would not remain on the table forever. Israel must understand that the choice between war and peace would not always stay open, Abdullah told delegates in Kuwait City at a summit focused on boosting economic growth and development in…
How to defend this?
With foreign observers starting to enter Gaza, it is undeniably clear that Israel committed war crimes over the last three weeks (including the bombing of nearly 70 schools). Plus this: Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children arriving with bullet…
Let’s hope I’m “problematic”
Should I be expecting a visit soon? The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German… During the war, we looked for a way to contribute…
And we grow in number
The Secretary General of the Foundation for Moroccan Jewish Heritage, Simon Lévy, has denounced the Israeli aggression on Gaza, and called on the international community to intervene to solve the conflict. “We are horrified by the carnage that can’t be justified and which killed around 1,000 people in Gaza,” said Levy in a statement to…
This is not being done in our name
I spoke at the Gaza rally in Sydney yesterday. My fellow Independent Australian Jewish Voices co-founder, Peter Slezak, was invited to address the Melbourne protest. His speech was an eloquent expression of Jewish dissent against Israeli crimes: We have a responsibility to turn our moral concern into meaningful action, because it is here, in the…
Sky News interview on Gaza
One day after the “truce” between Israel and Hamas, I was interviewed this morning on Sky News TV about the carnage in Gaza: [display_podcast]
Liberation is so sweet
Some Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip were wounded by a new type of weapon that even doctors with previous experience in war zones do not recognize, according to Dr. Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist who worked at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital for 11 days, during Operation Cast Lead… The unknown weapon appears to mainly affect…
J’Accuse: open letter to Kevin Rudd Prime Minister of Australia
The following statement is released today by the recently-formed Committee for the Dismantling of Zionism: Dear Prime Minister, We are part of an increasing number of people around the world of Jewish descent who are sickened by the coldly calculated massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza and who utterly repudiate Israel’s claim that it acts…
Best to protect their delicate eyes
Why aren’t the true words and feelings of Taghreed El-Khodary,… the New York Times stringer in Gaza, appearing in the pages of the paper? (Instead, the paper prefers to mock critics of its Middle East coverage. No wonder it’s financially screwed.)