A Palestinian-American academic named Steven Salaita was offered a job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, IL. This offer was withdrawn when some of his anti-Zionist tweets got some heightened public attention. (They weren’t secret in the first place, … Continue reading
The main line of criticism of Obama from advocates of waging war against the Syrian regime, including Hillary Clinton and John McCain, is the U.S. failure to arm the anti-Assad/pro-American rebels. There is no reason to believe that insofar as such … Continue reading
All is not well on Planet Hillary. Her wretched interview with Jeffrey Goldberg will not only alienate some of the more alert liberals. It will, or it should, also anger President Obama’s most fervent supporters. She’s doing him like Bill … Continue reading
No daylight here between our next president and Bibi the Butcher. Her moral obtuseness is awe-inspiring. And she wishes Obama had jumped into Syria. So we’re in for a mixture of aggression, incoherence (help the Syrian opposition without somehow helping ISIS), … Continue reading
I’m no pacifist. Those ISIS fuckers can’t die fast enough. The problem is how it could get done, and at what cost to innocent people. It feels a bit like a replay of the Kosovo affair. The Clinton Administration cried genocide, and … Continue reading
We capture or arrest, they kidnap. We have soldiers; they have fighters. We are even-tempered; they are militant. Our bombardments are self-defense; theirs are aggression. Any civilian that we kill is actually killed by them. We left Gaza. Blockading it … Continue reading
Which totally did not target civilians. … Continue reading
What’s the minimum number of innocent Palestinians the Israeli Defense Force needs to kill per day in order to defend Israel? Looking for a number. … Continue reading
Don’t take my word for it. J.J. Goldberg in the The Jewish Daily Forward. Noam Sheizaf in 972+. Yossi Sarid in Ha’aretz. Alex Kane in Mondoweiss. Another former Shin Bet head going dovish. … Continue reading
