The world barely noticed when Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan left the entire planet in the lurch by voting against Iran’s nuclear sanctions last week (ditto for Brazil and Lebanon). The world stared silently when Russian government-ordered raids slaughtered thousands of Chechens and displaced over 500,000 in two decades. The world entirely overlooked hundreds […]
Only two words describe this week’s public scapegoating of Israel following the Gaza flotilla incident. Sadness and antisemitism. Mainly, because all the other words besides the abbreviation, BS, are too vile to put in my blog. First, Israel, like any other progressive, democratic country, did not inspect the Mavi Marmara with intent to inflict casualties. […]
