Here’s a question we Israelis won’t ask ourselves about the Palestinians, especially not about Gaza. The question is taboo. Not only won’t anyone ask it out loud, but very, very few people will dare ask it in the privacy of their own minds …

… The question we have to ask ourselves is this: If anybody treated us like we’re treating the people in Gaza, what would we do? Read the rest of this entry »

Where to begin. Where oh where to fucking begin. Numero uno, I thought I already covered this, and wherever I have failed—and the possiblity exists, the reality exists, that and my public is the size of a pea—The New Yorker has nicely picked up the slack.

Surely these are not overly-complex ideas, people! Barack Obama ich bin ein politician. Yes, I understand, you liberals got yourselves all worked up by the fact that he reads books. Christ, he writes them, and by all accounts, not only very well but all by his talented self. I understand you got all your introjected hopes up—you know, the ones you’ve been saving since childhood, or at least adolescence: that the wise and kindly uber-parent would come along who would at last understand, er, I mean, whom you could vote for. Read the rest of this entry »