Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Last night’s statement from the Obama campaign clarifying the candidate’s reference to an eternally undivided Jerusalem in his AIPAC speech yesterday, shows why he’s among the best politicians on the American scene; and why he just may become our next president.
In my critique of his speech, I singled this phrase out for special criticism as [...]

When you write regularly as a progressive Zionist about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict either as a blogger or journalist you invariably face tremendous opposition. You are always explaining and defending your positions to critics, sometimes extremely hostile ones as anyone who reads the comment threads here can attest.
That’s why I found Gershon Baskin’s Answering My [...]

Rachel Neuwirth is one of the two individuals likely to have engaged in cyber-harassment of me and numerous other individuals who embrace a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At 7:45 AM this (Sunday) morning, my wife was woken by Neuwirth’s phone call. She wanted to speak to me about things I’ve written [...]

This blog has seen all manner of subterfuge and odd behavior from pro-Israel rightists. There was the guy who was banned here, and then assumed the blog URL and name of a legitimate blogger to gain access to my comments section. Now, there’s a new wrinkle. Evelyn Gordon is a rightist Palestinian-hater [...]

You all knew that Bush believed this all along. And you half suspect that if Bush doesn’t have the “balls” to nuke the Eye-ranians that Israel will do it for him. Cheney has said as much. But you thought Bush would never dare reveal it publicly. Well, now via Maariv he has–sort of. This from the Jerusalem Post:

President Bush reportedly said he would “understand” a preemptive Israeli strike against Iran s nuclear sites.

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There’s the truth and then there’s the Jerusalem Post’s version. These two are often as mismatched as Beauty and the Beast. The Post, in typically sloppy journalistic fashion has published a misleading report on a meeting between Human Rights Watch bomb damage assessment expert Marc Garlasco and IDF Maj. Gen. Meir Kalifi, who [...]

The Jerusalem Post and Washington Post report that the House Foreign Relations Committee passed a modified version of Palestinian Anti-Terrorism bill (HR 697) in a 36-2 vote. While President Bush seems to have won significant easing of the restrictions on U.S. aid to the Palestinians and preserved some presidential flexibility in its disbursement, there [...]

Gershon Baskin says “only Hamas can do it” [make peace] (photo: Justvision.org)
Gershon Baskin, co-CEO of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information and a long-time expert on Palestinian affairs writes in the Jerusalem Post that the prevailing view among Palestinian, and even among Israeli analysts he speaks with is that Hamas will likely moderate [...]

Duncan Hunter: “give me just a few good men & we can unload our ports better those A-rabs any day!” (photo: Defenselink.mil)
There are, of course, many members of Congress opposing the Dubai ports deal. There are just as many saying patently stupid things about the deal. Members who I always thought were [...]