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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: My Bigotry Is Better Than Yours
Graham Platner, a combat veteran running a Democratic primary campaign for a Maine seat in the U.S. Senate, is getting hit with caricatures, which is the worst form of bigotry. Let’s look at him in 3-D. Jiminy Crickets. I hope…
“The ‘No!’ of Ireland’s new president.”
A critical mass gathers against the Zionist state. Catherine Connolly has such a sweet Irish face—broad and open, bright eyes with a touch of sadness about them, always either smiling or about to give the world one. She has Irish…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews
This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition. At last, at last, Jews with powerful voices have gathered en masse — a critical mass, I would say —…
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…