Polling and a ceasefire
The poll supporting a ceasefire, it is said, is only a snapshot of public sentiment and doesn’t capture the complexity of public sentiments and thus its results should be taken with a grain of salt. Even if that is true,…
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The poll supporting a ceasefire, it is said, is only a snapshot of public sentiment and doesn’t capture the complexity of public sentiments and thus its results should be taken with a grain of salt. Even if that is true,…
I honor my cousin Johnny today – Veterans Day – who after being sent to a staging base in Alabama in 1969 decided that fighting in Vietnam wasn’t his cup of tea and promptly went AWOL. He eventually landed in…
It’s not surprising the current conflict between Israel and Palestinians – Gaza is ground zero of this conflict for now – is generating antisemitism and Islamophobia across the world, including here in the U.S. Both should be challenged.
We lost 60,000 plus Americans in Vietnam over nearly a 10 year period; in Gaza 10,000 plus have died in less than a month. The pause, announced yesterday, will give the people of Gaza a little breathing space, but not…
Yesterday I wrote on fb that the “pause” was a fig leaf at best. I’m afraid I was right. Last night the Washington Post in a harrowing story reported that another hospital was bombed in Gaza. According to the Post,…