Patrick Lawrence: “Israel does ‘the wet work.’”
The notion of a distant ally serving as “an unsinkable aircraft carrier” seems to be nearly as old as aircraft carriers. It means a usefully located landmass, typically but not always an island, that cannot be scuttled and can serve…
Patrick Lawrence: Notes of a Non-Voter
Oh my, the elites of the Democratic Party, their clerks in media and “the donor class” began gasping as election night wore on and it came clear that they had once again mistaken what we call liberal America for America….
Patrick Lawrence: Portents of Chaos
Uh-oh. The New York Times is picking up its familiar theme now that the Nov. 5 elections are but a few days out front: Those mal-intended foreigners are again “sowing discord and chaos in hopes of discrediting American democracy,” it reported in a…
Patrick Lawrence: Israel and Its Neighborhood, An Interview with Ambassador Chas Freeman
Why have West Asian nations that long ago pledged their support to the Palestinian cause remained so silent amid Israel’s terrorizing assaults on Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon? Where have the Russians and Chinese been? Is this not…
Patrick Lawrence: Harris Comes Out of the Closet on Israel
Well, Kamala Harris has had her fun with all those “progressive” voters, in and at the edge of the Democratic Party, who were much taken—or taken in, better put—as the vice president played the empathy card in her many statements…
“Al–Mughayyir kindergarten.”
An update. I write to share with readers, especially those who have supported the al–Mughayyir kindergarten project, news of the current state of play. The situation in the West Bank is such that construction of the playground has been put…
Patrick Lawrence: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
I read the other day the latest paper put out by those good people who run the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute. It is called “United States Spending on Israel’s Military Operations and Related U.S. Operations in…
“Land and conquest.”
Where there is no law. My first impression of Israel, as I sat in a taxi and looked out the window on an early evening in April of this year, was shock. Much of the land I rode through on…
“On tax resistance.”
Breaking the law to observe the law. Over the past year, the United States and Israel have been committing genocide in Gaza. By these actions, both have proven themselves to be illegitimate states. This imposes a rare responsibility on Americans….
PATRICK LAWRENCE: De-Westernizing Ourselves
Embarking on a process of personal, individual “de–Westernization” is absolutely essential if we propose to defend the humanity of humanity. This is an edited version of the second of two lectures the author gave recently on “Defending the Humanity of…