As the violence escalates in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians, the pressure for intervention by the United States or some other force increases as well. I listen mostly to NPR while driving, but the experts they have on repeat a drumbeat similar to...
Al Jazeera TV footage showed the bodies of five Palestinian men executed when Israeli soldiers found out where they'd hidden in a building in Ramallah on Sunday. They had feared for their lives and apparently had good reason to do so. Four were shot with a single...
The situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank territories deteriorated into virtually all-out war in the past week, with both sides escalating the rhetoric and the violence. The continued leadership of PLO Chairman Arafat seems doomed. The administration now finds...
The leering ugliness of the Israelis' Easter blitzkrieg is darkly illustrated by the news that, having marched into Ramallah, the IDF prepared a special Easter television broadcast for this historically Christian city: "Porn movies and programs in Hebrew are...
Is the statement, 'America's position as pre-eminent world power will not last indefinitely' a truism? That is to say, is this a statement too obviously true to be worth making? It was not blindingly obvious to Nately, Catch-22's embodiment of east coast rectitude and...
Sorry to disappoint some of my readers: terrorists haven't got me yet. Yesterday (Saturday) in Tel-Aviv they were close, but no cigar. A minute ago, my parents called from Haifa saying they just survived another attack. "May they move next to your home", an American...
What do we need an "Office of Strategic Influence" for when we have the Wall Street Journal? Not to mention the rest of the American media, which just can't be as gullible as they seem to be. The latest anthrax stories – Al Qaeda was mixing huge vats of the stuff...
The established Israeli "Peace Camp" – Peace Now, Meretz, parts of the Labour Party – is under pressure. The "refuseniks" movement – soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories – is growing steadily, in what seems to be the most...
IDF Soldiers fired live ammunition into the crowd of people, stalled cars, trucks, taxis, buses, and UN vehicles just south of the Deir al-Balah checkpoint in the Gaza Strip this morning. This is a "no news" day. I'm writing about it because I was standing...
Conservative columnist George F. Will is upset, claiming that "The war on terrorism is suddenly going terribly wrong." He thinks that "more than six months into the war on terror, terror is more indicated as a tactic than ever before." Will is...
