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The pause in fighting by the Israeli army in Gaza is a joke. Yesterday you barely had time to burp before the Israeli bombing resumed. Now we know that a pause is a different species than a ceasefire. It strikes…
What Hamas did on October 7 has no justification, including the taking of innocent hostages. In demanding their release though we should bear in mind that 14,500 Palestinians languish in Israeli prisons – some of whom have never been formally…
What seemed likely is happening in real time. The Israeli assault on Gaza, destructive and deadly as it was, is only getting worse, much worse. The stream of ground troops in this besieged strip of land is turning into a…
The current crisis in the Middle East will test the durability and depth of unity and understanding of the anti-MAGA, anti-Trump coalition, as it tumbles toward next year’s election. I wish I could say that the divisions within the coalition…
The mass slaughter of 1200 or more people – overwhelmingly Israeli Jews – in Israel by Hamas in early October and the unrelenting bombing, unfolding military invasion, and rising death count, of Palestinian non-combatants, now approaching 9000, in response by…