Air France fined for being sensible

This short article tells of Air France being fined for kicking a "flytilla" (remember that ill-fated non-protest?) activist off a...

Apartheid Palestine?

Anne Bayefsky speaks at Human Rights Council, Geneva, March 18, 2013:

"Shattered Arab dreams": for them, my heart bleeds (British irony)

"Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volati...

Peter Beinart on Chuck Hagel: deterrence and involvement

The article by Peter Beinart on the brand new secretary of defense only confirmed for me the two things I already knew: that I admire Peter...

Netanyahu’s political cynicism will backfire?

Much of what Isi Leibler says in his article (I stole the headline from him, adding a question mark) is true, aside of his prediction: ther...

Bibis' conundrum: a forecast attempted

First of all - a bit of funny political fantasy from David Horovitz. Funny, I said? Oh well... To be truthful*, I don't envy Bibi's...

Obama, Gore, stop whining about right-wing media - indeed

If I were a Republican... scratch it. If I were a Democrat... scratch it. If I were an American, I would print out this article and send it...

Why didn't al-Assad even throw a pebble at Israel?

Asks Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu : "Why didn't the Syrian Army, which has been attacking its own innocent people for 2...

Draft Josh Malina (Will Bailey, to West Wing fans)

This is for any West Wing fans out there: the White House position of liaison to the Jewish community is vacant. This is The Tablet's ...

Because our region is going to hell...

A set of dire (but not surprising) predictions by David Horovitz: Storm warning .

Chuck Hagel controversy and beyond

There is so much that was already said about the Hagel's nomination that the hearings in his case could be canceled in favor of quick ba...

"Da'am Israelis": bad pun warning, for English speakers

"Agbaria-Zahalka...could not disagree with [Haneen Zoabi] more. “We will not go together with the Muslim Brotherhood like she did on th...

Russia: already grieving about Chavez

Venezuelan vice president, Nicolas Maduro, is maneuvering between the pressure to tell some truth about Chavez' state of health and the...

Disagreeing with South Florida Sun Sentinel

A rather funny story and a rather imprecise coverage of it by a newspaper: The official portrait of Democratic women sworn into the U.S. Ho...

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget...

The rest of that psalm (the exact fate of the right hand) is disputed in its various English translations , but a recent case of forgetting ...

Palestine's strangely stubborn state of mind?

I think you all should read the three articles penned by Brian Goldfarb on the subject of the recent UN vote, recognizing Palestine as a ...

More doubters as to the real meaning of the "UN Victory"

"This year, when Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in October that he was “willing to go to negotiations right away withou...

Not everyone agrees that THAT UN vote was a disaster for Israel

Not everybody takes a pessimistic view of that UN vote: The Henry Jackson Society for one. And, by the way, who were the other 6 no votes, ...

The politics of petulance or march of the morons?

Watching (from afar, I haste to add) the primary elections in Likud, I haven't been able to get rid of a rising sense of unease. The fac...

With apologies to Akaky Akakievich

But I simply have to copy here this example of poetic prowess*, seeing as how a normal reader doesn't usually bother to click through: ...