Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief editor-at-large of Ha’aretz has written an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Why Won’t Obama Talk to Israel?”
The general position of the op-ed can be summed up from one line in the piece: “The Arabs got the Cairo speech; we got silence.”
Well, not exactly Mr. Benn. Israel continues to get something like three-billion dollars in military aid every year, while Gaza still smolders in ruins. That isn’t too bad of a deal on your end now is it?
You can read the whole op-ed here.
(hat tip NEF)
I don’t know where they found him, but the New York Times is making up for years and years of garbage commentary on the Middle East by bringing in Roger Cohen who in addition to the great Robert Fisk is the only MUST read being published regularly in English language newspapers.
As I have declared to many of my friends over the last few weeks, if the man does not win a Pulitzer Prize this year for his commentary on Iran I will personally lead a Journalism Green Revolution to get the Pulitzer Board removed.
Do be sure to check out his latest column on Iran where he writes about Iranian women as the vanguard of the recent uprisings. In his column he writes:
Images assail me: a slender woman clutching her stomach outside Tehran University after the blow; a tall woman gesticulating to the men behind her to advance on the shiny-shirted Basij militia; women shedding tears of distilled indignation; and that young woman who screamed, “We are all so angry. Will they kill us all?”
How can a revolution kill its children? The post-1979 generation has risen, not alone, but in the lead. Perhaps Iran cannot be an exception to the rule that revolutions devour themselves.
A friend told me he no longer recognizes his wife. She’d been of the reluctantly acquiescent school. Now, “She’s a revolutionary.” I followed as she led us up onto the roof. The “death to the dictator” that surged from her into the night was of rare ferocity.
…it’s really a shame that journalism and commentary like this are not par for the course here in the USA.
You can check out the complete column here.
