Gideon Levy adds his voice to the Israeli media dissenters who question Israel’s performance in the aftermath of its attack against Syria last week. As I wrote yesterday, his, Yigal Laviv and Larry Derfner’s are still small voices in the sea of self-congratulation that constitutes Israel’s mainstream media. But it’s often that still [...]
Read full post...While everyone and their brother seems to be falling all over themselves to deny, deny, deny that such talks took place, Akiva Eldar, who broke the original story, has kept pace by breaking new ground yet again. He reports in today’s Haaretz that both senior U.S. officials and the negotiators themselves confirm that officials [...]
Read full post...I have been fulminating for several weeks about the betrayal by the Israeli mainstream left (Labor, Meretz, Peace Now) of its anti-war values in fulsomely supporting the Lebanon war. That is, until they didn’t support it (to paraphrase John Kerry). Until Olmert announced the expanded ground war in the last week or so [...]
Read full post...Let’s queue up a round of applause for Yossi Beilin who’s said what I’ve been writing here for a few days about the tepid U.S. efforts to resolve the Gaza crisis. It’s a goddamn shame how pitiful our response has been. Rome is burning and all Rice can do is sit and fiddle [...]
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On Saturday, the IDF fired rockets at a truck carrying Muhammad Dahdouh, an Islamic Jihad commander. He died at the scene (see video). Israel accused him of organizing the firing of Grad rockets into Israel. But the IDF rockets also killed members of a Palestinian family [...]
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