Ibrahim Khreisheh, Palestinian representative to the UN Human Rights Council, on war crimes and international law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjzS27ylCZ8 I'd never heard of Ibrahim Khreisheh, who is apparently the Palestinian Authority's repr...

Bradley Burston's historical sketch of how rockets explain the rise & fall of the Israel peace camp

The rockets really are a serious problem. Ha'aretz columnist Bradley Burston (whom Andrew Sullivan , no less, once called "the con...

Owen Jones, writing in the Guardian, demonstrates how to pretend you care about a war crime when you don't really give a damn

David Hirsh flagged an article by Owen Jones in the Guardian on Wednesday about the latest Hamas-Israel war which offers, I'm afraid, ...

What can we learn from reading history ...

... even if we forget most of the details? Dale Favier, who blogs as mole , offers some perceptive reflections on this question that I think...

Is Israel killing indiscriminately in Gaza? (William Saletan)

It feels almost ridiculous to respond to this particular charge, because it's such obvious bullshit. But a number of people have made t...

Is Hamas Trying to Get Gazans Killed? (Jeffrey Goldberg)

For some time now, John Rentoul has been running a nice series of " Questions to Which the Answer is No ". It's clear that thi...

An unusually reasonable discussion about the current Hamas-Israel war (Alan Johnson & Chris Doyle)

And it happened in Britain, of all places. This on-air discussion comes from the news service of the Telegraph (not a source which I would ...