Netanyahu’s speech in front of Congress was truly extreme. He said that Judea and Samaria (the Israeli phrase for the West Bank and occupied territories) belongs to Israel. He said the entirety of Jerusalem belongs to the Israelis. He said Israeli settlements are...
Benjamin Netanyahu will soon speak to Congress presumably to reiterate what we’ve heard from him and others for the past week: “no to Israel's full withdrawal to the 1967 borders; no to the division of Jerusalem; no to the right of return for Palestinian refugees; and...
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Muammar Gaddafi, his son, and his top intelligence man under the Rome Statute’s provisions constituting crimes against humanity. Good; they are sick murderous tyrants. But who should be next? The...
While there was nothing all that new in the President's speech on the Middle East, most of the discussion has been centered around the Israeli reaction, rather than the content of Obama's ten-page peroration. In tandem with the usual pledges to keep borrowing money...
The flap over IMF honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn's apparent rape of a hotel maid has the chattering classes nattering a mile a minute, and I've so far resisted the temptation to comment, but what's interesting is who's defending DSK. Leading the charge: Bernard...
In an appearance on Greg Gutfeld's "Red Eye" late night Fox News panoply of buffoons, neocon Godfather Bill Kristol exulted in President Barack Obama's conversion to the "democracy"-promotion foreign policy championed by the Bush administration, reports the Daily...
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in The Atlantic: "I was ... taken aback when I read a statement from Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday that he 'expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly...
Though my interaction with Alan Bock was fairly limited and strictly virtual—emailing occasional editorial queries or kudos after particularly strong pieces—I was a longtime admirer of his. I knew Mr. Bock's work before I had ever heard of Antiwar.com, as I had a...
Alan Bock, editorial writer and opion page editor at the Orange County Register's editorial page, and a longtime columnist for Antiwar.com -- died today, shortly after entering a hospice. He was 67. Alan was the author of four books: Ecology Action Guide (1970), The...
Following up on Justin's post on Alan Bock going into a hospice - Alan Bock has done great work for freedom. His jovial good nature is rare in this biz. He can be a hardliner without being abrasive or bitter. In the waning days of the last century (12/27/2000),...
