A Democracy For Some, But Not For All

02.20.2022 __ “Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right,” I remember P. J. O’Rourke, who died Continue reading →

Bye-Bye Hasbara: It’s not about Hamas

06.06.2021 ________________________________________ Public diplomacy in Israel, known as Hasbara, is a well-known and until recently successfully deployed PR effort to Continue reading →

Laylat al Qadr: The Day Israel “Jumped the Shark”

05.23.2021 ________________________________________ I remember an evening in New York City when some friends came over for dinner – Chinese take-out, Continue reading →

Jerusalem: Night of Power, Days of Rage

05.16.2021 ________________________________________ The last thing I expected this year was to be writing – on Eid Al-Fitr, the day which Continue reading →

Amritsar.Sharpeville.Gaza: Will It Never End?

05.20.2018 _________________________________________  Gaza is red with blood, dark in grief, mired in poverty and dysfunction, yet not without dignity. In Continue reading →

Black Swans Resist: It’s Their State, Too

04.28.2018 ________________________________________ ‘What? You’ve never seen The Maltese Falcon? I’ll lend it to you – you have to see it Continue reading →

Gaza: We Need to Let Suffering Speak

04.15.2018 _________________________________________ “We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima Continue reading →

‘How come he can’t see his own savagery?’

04.03.2016 ________________________________________________________ It’s Friday: Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter have passed; Passover approaches; in the distance Ramadan Continue reading →