Apropos of my post of earlier today, Normblog, offers one of his periodically superb guest posts from Eve Garrard: Israel, human decency, common humanity. Garrard scores writers Fintan O’Toole and Iain Banks for their own indecent attacks on Israel by running through the litany of human and national indecencies that enemies of Israel purposefully ignore. […]
Politics as a Continuation of War by Other Means
Clausewitz has been upended. In On War, he famously wrote, War is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means. However, he also said, The aim of war should be the defeat of the enemy. But what constitutes defeat? The conquest of his whole […]
Obsessive-Compulsive Israel Disorder (OCID) and Mass Hysteria
These are real phenomena, and we are seeing them acted out in growing frenzy before our eyes. Richard Landes at the Augean Stables had a crucial post last year demonstrating the astounding dissonance between world trouble spots and their attendant casualty figures and media and political-class attention to Israel. His post was based on numbers […]
Shame and Folly
It may be that one of the benefits of having, finally, to die is that in addition to deliverance from the prospect of eternal ennui, one no longer has to be embarrassed by the human species. The folly that so many today commit, and the shame in which they cover themselves, surely provides embarrassment enough […]
Hamas Must End the Blockade of Gaza Now
The Hamas apologists showing up in such great numbers over the past thirty-six hours must contend with what Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said just days ago in Buenos Aires. They are running an authoritarian, fascist system and it’s for this reason that leaders of Hamas know they are losing the support of the […]