Patrick Lawrence: Pardon Me?
Wandering among the media over the Thanksgiving weekend…. On Saturday I read that President Trump announced the previous day that he intends to grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, who has been serving a 45–year sentence in a…
“What Is This? Peace in Our Time?”
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers. All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft…
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them. When he looked back much later on the first postwar years—mournfully, a little nostalgically—Arthur Miller, the noted American playwright, wrote of “the beautifully…
Patrick Lawrence: The Knesset and the ‘Post–9/11 Method’
Maybe you saw the video that went public on Nov. 1 wherein Itamar Ben–Givr stands above a row of Palestinian prisoners lying face down with their heads in bags and their hands bound behind their backs. “Look at how they…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them. I never thought I would see the day, but the…
“78 years of betrayals.”
The long history behind the Netanyahu–Trump ‘peace plan.’ Like most others in the West’s paying-attention minority, we thought from the first the 20–point “peace plan” Bibi Netanyahu and President Trump announced with fanfare at the White House on 29 September had nothing…
“Stick, stones, matches, gasoline.”
The technology of ethnic cleansing. What follows is an updated version of a report published two days ago at West Bank Alerts, a newsletter devoted to reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Occupied Palestine. These Alerts are based on information sent to me…
“Starvation siege.”
Olive trees and the covetousness of West Bank settlers. Texts have arrived from Palestinian friends with increasing frequency these past weeks, each one documenting an upsurge in the destruction of olive trees by Jewish settlers and the Zionist Occupation Forces…
Patrick Lawrence: Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies
Well, the latest of these incessant polls concerning the Nov. 4 election for the mayoralty of New York are in, having arrived Thursday, Oct. 30, and if the story has changed it is only for the better. A new Emerson…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time in Ukraine?
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. There are any number of reasons you may not like, or may even…