25 April 2008

I don’t often give props to the Bush administration, but I must give credit where credit is due. After spending seven years in office while making much stink about the need for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, George W. Bush finally decided that paying the region a visit might be a good idea. So, kudos to Bush and friends on making the realization (albeit seven years late) that, in order to negotiate stuff with people, actually sitting down with them is necessary.

22 March 2008

WHAT WENT DOWN

24 February 2008

ALMOST TOO MUCH TRAGEDY FOR MY HEART TO BEAR

This month, I am a chronicler of death. There is nothing much to say here in the realm of subtle political analysis or historical criticism. Rather, there is death in abundance.

12 January 2008

DIVESTMENT, SOUTH AFRICA, AND PALESTINE

18 November 2007

LET THERE BE LIGHT

(24 October 2007)

Condoleezza does nothing

(21 September 2007)

Hip Hop in the Holy Land

When you think about Palestine, and about the suffering endured and the struggle maintained by the Palestinian people, hip hop probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. Nonetheless, there exists a proud and vocal contingent of Palestinian hip hop heads, both within the occupied territories and among the diaspora.

(21 August 2007)

Thousands of Palestinian prisoners remain locked in Israeli cages

(18 June 2007)
“There is no dialogue with those murderous terrorists.”
—Palestinian President and leader of Fatah, referring to Hamas, suddenly adopting the language of the West with regard to his own people

The five-day war? The three-state solution?

(19 May 2007)

Same old shit in the Gaza Strip

It occurs to me, as I sit down to write the latest Report, that news from Palestine is, in the long run, so frustratingly cyclical, so repetitive, that a commentator like myself could probably get away with reprinting previous articles, changing a few dates and numbers, and no one would be the wiser.