Advertisements In my latest piece for Souciant, I explore the meaning of Iceland’s resolution recognizing both Palestinian statehood and the Palestinian Right of Return and Bernard Avishai’s recent piece on RoR, which I posted here. For readers’ reference, since RoR is such a controversial subject, my own view of theContinue Reading
Advertisements Harpers’ Magazine only put this in their print edition. I offer here a pdf file of Bernard Avishai’s piece exploring the question of the Palestinian Right of Return. I’m not sure about his proposed solution, but the very fact that the subject is being taken seriously in a mainstream US publication andContinue Reading
Advertisements When writing about President Obama’s speech on Thursday, I got one thing very wrong. I wrote: “Bibi will not have anything here to fight with Obama about tomorrow.” Well, that was wrong; but not as much as you might think. As MJ Rosenberg pointed out in his Friday column,Continue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for IPS News is up. It looks at the meeting today between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama and the fallout from it.Continue Reading
Advertisements Once again, history becomes the battlefield in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And as usual, both sides in the debate have their self-serving versions. In 2011, there is a lot less gray area in this history. Most of the history of 1948 is clear as far as the facts are concerned.Continue Reading
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