Matthew Yglesias posted the briefest of responses to the just released Pew poll on various international and Mideast matters, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is a pearl of a primer in slanted language and presentation – all in two sentences. I commented on it at Yglesisas’s blog. I told him he packed as much slanting […]
Hatikva at Bergen Belson: April 20, 1945
On April 20, 1945, only five days after their liberation and on the eve of the Sabbath, with dead still on the ground and with people dying daily, inmates at Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp sang the Jewish anthem of hope “Hatikva.” It was recorded by the BBC. The lyric for Hatikva was originally written in […]
It’s Work, Being a Jew
Did you see that? Did you see what I did? I’ve been blogging obsessively on the subject of “labor” and workers ever since Scott “I’ve got a baseball bat in my office, Mr. Koch – it is Mr., isn’t it?” Walker started trying to roll back the twentieth century in Wisconsin. It’s developed into something […]
Israel Responds to Time Magazine
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the following response from Ron Dermer, Senior Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, to the latest of Time Magazine’s increasingly and starkly biased reports on Israel is not how well-reasoned and clearly presented it is. What is most remarkable is how obvious the various counter points are to the […]
Palestinian Bad Faith
At Foreign Policy, Steven J. Rosen offers a clear statement of the present situation regarding Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. For the first time since the Oslo peace process started 18 years ago, Palestinian leaders are openly refusing to negotiate with the government of Israel, and U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration is doing very little about it. As […]