Got to give CNN a little credit. Their reporters are actually challenging power for once. First you have Anderson Cooper providing quality reporting from Gaza, along with engaging in some seriously awesome (and I'm guessing stress relieving) pushback against critics who want the American media...
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Matt Duss and Aziz Abu Sarah talk about invocations of "providence" in the context of political disputes:
I guess Bryan Caplan isn't the only member of the plutocracy channeling Gilded Age Social Darwinism. See Mitt Romney speaking about the differences between Israelis and Palestinians today. Noting the.
Matt and Zack Beauchamp talk about Arafat assassination rumors:
Palestinian and Knesset member Ahmad Tibi takes Republicans to task for using increasing inflamed rhetoric against his people. He takes on Eric Cantor in an interesting way: A man living.
"Neocon Woodstock" is just a fabulous headline. Instead of a lot of young naked people frolicking under the influence of LSD, the Herzliya Conference has a lot of middle-aged nerdy.
I'd hate to see that bastard Pollard go free, but it's hard to justify keeping him if there's even a chance that the release could save lives: “Officials in Jerusalem are examining an initiative in which the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria will be...
If you are a Facebook fan or friend of Nicholas Kristof, and it happened to show up in your newsfeed (or, if you were set to "live feed" and you.
I'm guessing that this is going to make it hard to treat the settlements as "bargaining chips."
I agree with Ackerman and Yglesias that defining "pro-Israel" on the basis of belief in a particular narrative of national foundation is ridiculous and absurd. In addition to being practically nonsensical, such a metric would serve to throw a blanket on genuine historical scholarship of...
Spencer:But he [Avigdor Lieberman] also had a formulation that I haven't seen before: First of all, we really don’t have any intention to change the demographic balance in Judea and.
... Israeli settlements expanded. This make today like just about every other day since July 1967.