flotilla: a torpedo, or harbour it?

From The  NYRBooks Jim Hollander/epa/Corbis The writer David Grossman, right, protesting with Palestinians and Israelis against the eviction of Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, April 9, 2010. From Peter Beinart’s essay “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in The NYRB, May 12, 2010 WHICH FREEDOM? FOR WHOM? POVERTY AND [...]

Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn: The Women’s Crusade

NYT Magazine, http://tinyurl.com/vaw21 The Women’s Crusade By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN The liberation of women could help solve many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to terrorism. August 23, 2009 on paper (oL since August 19) INCIPIT of a long essay (7 pp. online): IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount [...]

Qaddafi’s provocations taken at face value

QADDAFI IS almost RIGHT TWICE   Running the minor risk of being the only moderate political observer in Europe to agree with him, we explain here why we agree deeply (although with qualifications) with both the epater les bourgeois proposiitons held yesterday by Qaddafi in Rome: 1 – America has practiced terrorism (a self-evidence, that  [...]