Ken Waltzer FACEBOOK Some thoughts on what the UN Security Council resolution 2334 might mean and about what is next. Meantime, despite all the good diplomatic action de-isolating Israel by initiatives involving Africa, former Soviet republics, some Arab states, China, even Russia, the UNSCR 2334 [...]
Archive for December 26th, 2016
It’s The Settlements Stupid
Americans for Peace Now Barak Ravid: “The U.S. warned Netanyahu for eight years that his policy would have a price, but he didn’t listen. He preferred pacifying the settler lobby instead of making a plan of action. He has only himself to blame . . . There are many precedents for American pre[...]
Weimar Republic
“Brüning was replaced as Chancellor by a man few Germans had heard of, Franz von Papen. Though he was a member of the Catholic Centre Party, his political experience had been largely confined to the Prussian Landtag. Far from being a typical Weimar deputy, he was a wealthy aristocrat and reti[...]
Fourth Night of Hanukkah
ANTISEMITISM, the Gift that Defines Hanukkah[...]
Michael Hood A real Haitian Christmas feast
I was surprised one day as I sat in the courtyard, moping over my text, to see my friend Juana come tentatively into the yard bearing a little covered stainless pot, the kind you might see on a hospital tray. Juana was my cook last year and though she spoke zero English, and I no […][...]