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This reminds me of slavery times when Southern postmasters refused to deliver “abolitionist” mail. Now, postmasters in certain zip codes may be looking for an excuse to treat in the same way mail with the taint of “Zionism.” From the “Forward”: The metropolitan Detroit regional office of the U.S. Postal Service issued a clarification to […]

is reserved from contributors to the “New York Review of Books” who write about Israel. Jonathan Freedland concludes a new piece on the “liberal Zionist” dilemma with the pontification: “They will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist.” No place for Jewish […]

Our Secretary of State is off to India to teach Hindus and Muslims how to live together. The fruits of his peacemaking in the Mideast according to the “Jerusalem Post”: A Hamas attack on IDF soldiers in southern Gaza, which occurred an hour and a half after the start of a humanitarian truce, ended with […]

New Gallup poll shows church-going Americans significantly more pro-Israel. Among denominations, Jews lead followed by Mormons followed by Protestants followed by Catholics (I suspect because of strong anti-Israel bias among Hispanics, possibly Hispanic immigrants, as revealed by other polls). See http://www.gallup.com/poll/174266/religion-plays-large-role-americans-support-israelis.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines

From the “Jerusalem Post”: While Obama suggested neither the US, nor the Israelis, are sure of exactly who perpetrated the attack– Hamas, so far, has denied holding an Israeli soldier in its custody – he said that Hamas’ ability to enforce a cease-fire relies on its ability to monitor the tunnels it has built to […]

The conservative columnist Ramish Ponnuro suggests Palestinian civilians are not “bad guys.” He erects a straw man by selectively quoting some speakers at pro-Israel rallies revving up the crowd, and then sort of accuses historian Benny Morris of being a barbarian for suggesting that Israel, somehow, sometime, will have to crush Hamas for the Jewish […]

An important, depressing piece by Benny Morris, founder of Israel’s Revisionist historians who no longer subscribes to pro-Palestinian Revisionism. I fear he’s right that Israel has already lost the current war politically, no matter the military outcome. I disagree only in that I think that the next war will involve a second front with Hezbollah–and […]

Congrats to Batya Ungar-Sargon in “The Tablet” for demolishing the agitprop widely circulating on the Internet absolving Hamas from responsibility for the kidnap-murder of the three Israeli boys that started the current Gaza War. See “Did Israel Say Hamas Didn’t Kidnap Its Teens? No,” http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/180617/did-israel-say-hamas-didnt-kidnap-its-teens-no?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=0abbc40465-Tuesday_July_29_20147_28_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-0abbc40465-207025897 Postscript: See on Hamas’ links of the kidnap-murderers, see the […]