U.S. Moves Warships to Defend Israel in Case of Iranian Attack wsj.com/world/middle-e…

To celebrate the liberation of Haifa from the Ottomans by Indian forces I did a special, interpretive dance outside the Beit Hagafen Arab-Jewish cultural centre. The highly artistic fluid movements represent the galloping charge of Indian cavalry & the fleeing of the Turks

Ridiculous.

'The Iranian message was we will attack the forces that attack us, so don't f--k with us and we won't f--k with you,' one U.S. official told me

I talk to Bloomberg about Israel's man at the United Nations.

'Erdan’s two main tasks are to score public points against Israel’s detractors and to delegitimize criticism from all parts of the UN system.'
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This is beyond worrisome. Settlers already shooting and burning houses as forces looking for a young settler who disappeared. If he's kidnapped or found dead, this could lead to an equivalent of the Gaza war in the West Bank.

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

'Many people on the left were saying, ‘We’re so rational. Why aren’t we winning?’,' founder Michael Lerner said yesterday. 'And I would say it’s because we act as though people who are not yet with us are idiots,'. Sad to see Tikkun Magazine shutting down.
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Statement just released by the Iran-allied 'Islamic Resistance of Iraq' threatening that US troops will come under attack:

'We hold the Americans responsible if their forces or the (Israeli) entity commits any foolishness in Iraq or in the Axis countries and our response will be…

Seth Frantzman Crisis Group The choice is binary: let the civil authorities work & save lives, or continue to target them, fuel famine, & encourage social disintegration. There is no third option. It's not 'whitewashing' to say the police are vital to preventing mass death by starvation & disease (2/2)

My February essay critiquing the pro-Hamas left as it endangers the Palestine solidarity movement sadly has fresh relevance as Verso has just put out an essay calling on the international left to back “heroic”Hamas. It’s now been unpaywalled: compactmag.com/article/how-th…

“In February, the IDF began conducting airstrikes against the Hamas-linked police securing aid convoys, leading the force to stop protecting aid convoys, which Satterfield said “shut down assistance moves and spurred intensely violent criminal behavior.”” timesofisrael.com/its-an-establi…