Palestinians believe in the American ideal
... just not our current regime. From Ha'aretz: GAZA - Palestinians held a symbolic funeral yesterday for U.S. student Rachel...
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2003 at 12:06 AM | Full Post
Israel's army and civilians
Ha'aretz has a good column by an Israeli on the deaths of civilians at the hands of the Israeli Army....
Posted Monday March 17, 2003 at 5:33 PM | Full Post
American peace activist killed by Israeli Army
I am so angry my hands are shaking. I do not want one more American dollar going to Israel. It...
Posted Sunday March 16, 2003 at 10:01 PM | Full Post
A happy story from Palestine
Palestinian-Israeli hotline melts hate Sammy Waed never thought he would become friends with an Israeli soldier, especially one who had...
Posted Sunday December 8, 2002 at 1:12 PM | Full Post
Barry vs. Joshua Michael Marshall
My letter, and Mr. Marshall's response, regarding UNSCOM weapons inspectors, is featured on the front page of Salon today. He...
Posted Friday November 15, 2002 at 11:20 AM | Full Post
UN Resolution
The BBC has a good summary of the timetable for the next steps, now that the Iraq resolution has passed....
Posted Friday November 8, 2002 at 12:44 PM | Full Post
Yikes! Who's in charge here?
From the London Times: Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Sharon ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called...
Posted Tuesday November 5, 2002 at 5:48 PM | Full Post
Depressing Afghan women post of the day
The Afghan Supreme Court has dismissed a female judge for not wearing an Islamic headscarf during a meeting with President...
Posted Sunday November 3, 2002 at 1:57 PM | Full Post
Homos more of a threat than terrorism?
Despite a shortage of qualified Arabic linguists in the intelligence and defense fields, the Army has fired a significant number...
Posted Sunday November 3, 2002 at 1:07 PM | Full Post
Human Rights Watch condemns suicide bombings
Just trying to be fair by making sure people see this. I have never argued that attacks on civilians are...
Posted Friday November 1, 2002 at 12:55 PM | Full Post
Ha'aretz has had it
The only Middle Eastern paper I read regularly -- Ha'aretz seems to have had it with the settlers and the...
Posted Monday October 28, 2002 at 11:15 AM | Full Post
Refuseniks
Photo of Israeli soldiers at the Supreme Court. They have refused to serve in the Occupied Territories....
Posted Saturday October 26, 2002 at 6:58 PM | Full Post
A feminist play in Gaza
A nice story out of Gaza for once: a feminist play with Palestinian actresses. Check out the photo -- great...
Posted Wednesday October 23, 2002 at 4:46 PM | Full Post
Remind me which ones are allies?
The Council on Foreign Relations, not exactly a left-wing group, has issued a new report saying that Saudi Arabia is...
Posted Thursday October 17, 2002 at 1:40 PM | Full Post
Weapons inspectors were not expelled in 1998
In These Times has an interview with Scott Ritter, who served as Chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998....
Posted Tuesday October 8, 2002 at 2:22 PM | Full Post
Anti-war rally
I'm getting a cold, so this is going to be a stream-of-consciousness post about the rally. There are some photos...
Posted Sunday October 6, 2002 at 11:44 PM | Full Post
Back from the anti-war rally
I'll post more in a little while -- just got home. We were there until it ended. I would estimate...
Posted Sunday October 6, 2002 at 6:34 PM | Full Post
Good report from BBC on American soldiers in Afghanistan
Titled Doubts set in on Afghan mission, it says that the Americans are looking increasingly like occupiers to the Afghans...
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 5:31 PM | Full Post
Don't vote for Democrats who vote for war
Choire says it better than my still jet-lagged brain can. Go sign Michael Moore's petition, and send some letters....
Posted Thursday October 3, 2002 at 11:10 AM | Full Post
Interesting summary of Israeli papers on the latest Arafat siege
Recriminations Among the Ruins -- from Slate....
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 9:56 PM | Full Post
The real goal is empire
Jay Bookman, one of the editors of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a very good column from a couple of days...
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 10:11 AM | Full Post
News log on Iraq
AlterNet has a War on Iraq newslog page....
Posted Wednesday October 2, 2002 at 9:58 AM | Full Post
Cheney doing business with Iraq
Here is an interesting link to a 2000 article in the Financial Times, courtesy of Mark Morford, about the fact...
Posted Sunday September 8, 2002 at 1:34 PM | Full Post
Is this what they mean by "going native"?
A U.S. Special Forces bodyguard assigned to protect Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks with colleagues after an assasination attempt on...
Posted Thursday September 5, 2002 at 5:27 PM | Full Post
A race to the bottom...
Talk about defining deviancy down! Palestinian suicide bombers have nail bombs, Israel has dart bombs. Palestinian officials have condemned Israel's...
Posted Sunday September 1, 2002 at 12:26 AM | Full Post
Blair says Iraq issue 'must be tackled'
Is he insane? I can't imagine why any British PM would tie his fortunes so closely to the most ignorant...
Posted Saturday August 31, 2002 at 11:32 PM | Full Post
OK, I don't even like sports...
The Times has a front page picture and inside article about one of the doubles teams at the U.S. Open:...
Posted Thursday August 29, 2002 at 11:52 AM | Full Post
This is terrorism too
When it's tank shells (or F-16s) rather than suicide bombs that kill civilians, Americans seem to think it's not terrorism....
Posted Thursday August 29, 2002 at 11:28 AM | Full Post
Let's Make War
NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd announces, "I'm with Dick! Let's Make War." She admits she was dubious at first, but...
Posted Wednesday August 28, 2002 at 2:05 PM | Full Post
Those wacky christians: A followup
The Times has a followup article to the one I wrote about several weeks ago regarding monks fighting over territorial...
Posted Tuesday August 27, 2002 at 12:49 AM | Full Post
THANK YOU FOR FINANCING GLOBAL TERROR
I'm never at a gas station, or I would buy some....
Posted Monday August 26, 2002 at 5:08 PM | Full Post
More reports from Palestine
Just a reminder: James has more reports from our friend Steve in Palestine....
Posted Sunday August 25, 2002 at 1:08 PM | Full Post
Jews Against the Occupation - email reports
James has posted reports from friends with Jews Against the Occupation currently staying in the Occupied Territories....
Posted Thursday August 15, 2002 at 4:37 PM | Full Post
I'm surprised
To be fair (because I'm morally superior to Republicans1), I need to mention it when the Bush administration does something...
Posted Thursday August 15, 2002 at 4:29 PM | Full Post
Why would we fingerprint them?
Today's quiz: The U.S. is about to begin fingerprinting visitors from a list of Arab/Muslim countries. Which country won't be...
Posted Thursday August 15, 2002 at 12:33 PM | Full Post
I would have done the same
I know -- I'm getting a bit obsessed with the Middle East lately, but it makes me so crazy that...
Posted Tuesday August 13, 2002 at 3:00 PM | Full Post
Selective Memri
I have heard mention of Memri lately, a group whose purpose, according to its website, is to bridge the language...
Posted Monday August 12, 2002 at 9:14 PM | Full Post
More on Israel's attack on peace protests
James has more information including a quote from our friend Steve, who is headed there as a peace activist....
Posted Monday August 12, 2002 at 9:05 PM | Full Post
Remind me again which ones are allies and which are evil
Iran turned over al Quaeda members to Saudi Arabia in June....
Posted Sunday August 11, 2002 at 3:00 PM | Full Post
Israel is a disaster
It's not making itself any safer, or us, and it has almost completely lost any moral authority it once had....
Posted Saturday August 10, 2002 at 12:39 PM | Full Post
Israel.com
Why does it list Christianity before Judaism?...
Posted Saturday August 10, 2002 at 12:27 AM | Full Post
Those wacky christians
Monks Trade Blows in Unholy Row at Jerusalem Shrine The rooftop compound of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bore...
Posted Tuesday August 6, 2002 at 7:30 PM | Full Post
Israeli refusenik
The Guardian has a column by Shlomi Segall, a reserve staff sergeant in the Israeli paratroopers and a member of...
Posted Saturday July 6, 2002 at 1:45 PM | Full Post
This could lead to civil war
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said he would uproot 10 rogue Jewish outposts in the West Bank Sunday, setting the...
Posted Saturday June 29, 2002 at 7:22 PM | Full Post
Column on Zionism
Ha'aretz has a good column by Ze'ev Sternhell on the original basis for Zionism -- "an answer to an existential...
Posted Friday June 28, 2002 at 7:27 PM | Full Post
Israeli rights group reports on settlements
B'Tselem, the Israeli rights group, has issued an informative report on the settlements in the Occupied Territories -- titled "Land...
Posted Thursday June 27, 2002 at 11:45 AM | Full Post
Remember Lebanon
The Guardian has good article by Charles Glass, who was ABC's chief Middle East correspondent in the 1980s and was...
Posted Tuesday June 25, 2002 at 5:59 PM | Full Post
Depressing story
Juan Gonzalez has a column in today's Daily News about what happened to the only independent Palestinian public television station...
Posted Tuesday June 4, 2002 at 11:10 AM | Full Post
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