The UNRWA is the United Nations’ relief agency for Palestine, a huge agency since the 1948 war. Trump had cut off US funding for the UNRWA back in August of 2018 to the usual disapproval from the left: “The United … Continue reading →
Not a Fascist in the economic sense (which isn’t how most people use the word these days, anyway), but in the “willing and eager to use the apparatus of the state to stomp on your liberties” sense. Why, Frederica Wilson, … Continue reading →
Trump loves to surprise people. That’s part of his power; he doesn’t like to do the expected. And the handshake with Kim Jong Un at the DMZ, and Trump’s stepping over the line into North Korean territory, certainly came as … Continue reading →
Trump announces new Iran sanctions: Today’s action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian regime in recent weeks including shooting down a U.S. drone,” the president said in the Oval Office, calling Khamenei “responsible for the hostile conduct … Continue reading →
[See UPDATE below] I happened to turn on my TV late last night to a cable news station and I immediately started hearing talk about how Trump was going to start a war with Iran. The line went something like … Continue reading →
Online you can easily find many clips from documentaries and newsreels about D-Day. If you do (as I did today), you may almost immediately notice—as I did—the narration. The voices used back then had an utterly different tone from anything … Continue reading →
This doesn’t appear to be some sort of spoof: A cotton plant growing at Campbell Elementary School [in Arlington, Virginia] drew criticism online today, but Arlington Public Schools said allegations that staff were going to make kids “pick cotton” was … Continue reading →
Rashida Tlaib has been getting a lot of flak, and rightly so, for some remarks she made recently about Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust. The context was a question about the one-state solution, and this is the part of … Continue reading →
A lot. Read the whole thing, but particularly note this: Hamas and Iranian-controlled Islamic Jihad launched over 600 rockets killing several Israeli civilians. The rockets were launched mostly from civilian locations in Gaza towards civilian locations in Israel. Israel retaliated … Continue reading →
Here’s how USA Today covers the Netanyahu election: The outcome would also affirm Israel’s continued tilt to the political right and further cast doubt on hopes of a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, partly because of Netanyahu’s close relationship … Continue reading →
Yesterday while looking at Ted Koppel’s Wiki entry for a comment I was writing, I came across this history: Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, England. His parents, German Jews, had fled Germany after the rise of Adolf … Continue reading →
For decades, North Korea has been an intractable problem. President after president, both Democratic and Republican, tried and failed to secure a deal that made sense, and yet deals that didn’t make sense were made. Of course, I’m not sure … Continue reading →