If anyone has a better idea, I’d love to hear it. First off, yes, Hamas are terrorists. They do bad, terrorist things. They also use human shields while they do bad terrorist […]
Here’s a novel idea, Israel. Stop killing people.
“World War Z”: Israel’s best foot forward?
Are zombies the key to peace between Israel and Palestine? “A Hollywood movie starring Brad Pitt posits a right of return for Arabs and Jews?” asks blogger levi9909 at Jews sans frontieres. […]
Let my people go
We have finally invented the internet. In current form, the internet allows for things like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the documenting of a tragic school building collapse in China. […]
Leveraging Operation Pillar of Defense into an attack on Iran
To the Netanyahu administration, attacking Gaza may be killing two birds with one stone. The Netanyahu administration stands poised to use Iran’s real or imagined influence over Hamas, as well as Iron […]
Jabari assassination brought Hamas negotiations to premature end
Israeli last to know that his negotiations with Ahmed Jabari were as doomed as the man. In an oped in the New York Times, Gershon Baskin, who negotiated with Hamas for the […]
Israel v. Palestine brings out the Jewish in me
Is holding Jews to a higher standard helpful to peace in the Middle East?
Nota Bene #111: Mmmmm… Beeeeeer
Sorry for the long absence. Let’s carry on, shall we? “If you listen to the guys up in the stands, pretty soon you’ll be up there sitting with them.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #54
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Shashank Bengali, McClatchy News, Israel’s destruction of U.S.-style school shocks Gazans: “It seems that targeting our school . . . was one […]
Nota Bene #53
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Bill Simmons, ESPN.com, the Sports Guy, on the airliner guided to a crash-landing in the Hudson River: And was anyone else on […]
The Zionist in my closet
Few conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem restrained by reason; worse, someone inevitably tosses out the word “Zionism” in some form or another. Things generally go to hell after that. “Antisemitism” follows […]
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