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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

The Law in These Parts

Selma Dabbagh Reads Out of It at BookCourt Saturday

Tears of Gaza

Captain Arrested by Greek Authorities as U.S. Boat to Gaza Attempts to Leave Athens

The journey of The Audacity of Hope, the U.S. boat which was going to join an international flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza this weekend, appears to have been very short lived. Not long after attempting to launch from Athens, the Hope's captain has been arrested by Greek authoriti ... More >>

New York to Gaza: Controversial Aid Flotilla Will Try Again After Last Year's Deadly Result

I covered a boat cruise around Manhattan last summer that raised money for the Audacity Of Hope — not Barack Obama's book, but the blockade-breaking aid ship for Gaza's Palestinians determined to actually land without the deadly violence surrounding the May 31, 2010, attempt by the "Gaza Free ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Waka Flocka Flame, Sharon Van Etten, Group Home, Unearthly Trance, and More

BOW-BOW-BOW-BOW. Photo by Donna Permell​In this week's Village Voice, the great Sean Fennessey explains why Waka Flocka Flame is yelling at you, Grayson Currin profiles local ethereal folk lady Sharon Van Etten, Phillip Mlynar on Group Home's tribute to their former mentor, Gang Starr's Guru, ... More >>

Natacha Atlas

Flotillas Gone Wild: Belligerent Gaza-Bound Love Boat of Hate to Make for Mischevious Mari-Time Later Today

​In what can only be described as one of the more aggressively shit-starting plays in the history of humanitarian aid, yet another Gaza-bound activist-filled flotilla is headed towards an Israeli blockade in Gaza like, four days after the last "loveboat" got eight humanitarian activists killed ... More >>

Morning Links: President Obama to Meet Jan Brewer Today, Tony Hayward to Apologize Again, MTA Salaries on the Rise

​• Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will meet President Obama today at the White House. She has said "she will paint a picture of her state as 'under siege' by Mexican drug cartels and illegal immigrants." • Government officials say no to nuking the leaking oil well in the Gulf. Apparently it ... More >>

Morning Links: Scary Sinkhole in Guatemala, BP Losing Value Like It's Losing Oil, Real Housewives DWI Bust

​• In the wake of Tropical Storm Agatha, there is a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City, and it is terrifying. "It may look like it's impossible to fix, but we've done it before," says David de Leon, spokesman for the Guatemala disaster response agency. Video of the sinkhole here. • BP has l ... More >>

Morning Links: International Criticism Mounts Against Israel, Hurricane Season Begins, Quit Facebook Actually "Update Your Status" Day

AP​• Israel is holding more than 600 activists from the Gaza convoy, and international criticism of the country is mounting, with the UN condemning the acts that on Monday killed 9 civilians -- many of them Turks, a country that had once been a friend of Israel -- aboard the flotilla that ha ... More >>

Reggae's Civil War

Why Mavado and Vybz Kartel might be the Biggie and Tupac of Dancehall

Caryl Churchill's Controversial Seven Jewish Children Gets New York Hearing

Photo from the Royal Court's February production in London For a minor playlet, Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children has certainly generated quite the brouhaha. In seven brief scenes, the 10-minute piece tracks 80 years of Jewish history--from the Nazi era to the recent Gaza invasion--in the fo ... More >>

Drama at the Food Coop

There's drama at the Park Slope Food Coop over a proposal to ban Israeli food products to protest fighting in Gaza. [NY Post]A new study finds that living in a neighborhood with a high concentration of fast food restaurants may increase your risk of stroke by 13 percent.[U.S. News & World Report ... More >>

The mark of cane: Governor Paterson keeps getting blindsided by personal shots

From the New Yorker's "Your Eustace, 2009," the mag's annual contest for the best new version of Rea Irvin's classic cover, this entry (one of 12 winners — and my favorite) is "Eustace, the Undead New Yorker," by David Cook of Suwanee, Georgia. Further proof of the schizophrenic media cult ... More >>

Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

Bin Laden Back, Calls for Jihad; Nude Celebrity Angle Found

It's been a season of comebacks: Mickey Rourke, Kurt Warner, and now Osama Bin Laden. A voice that "resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages" has told followers via audiotape to prepare "for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza." The alleged Osama further claims that Israel is trying to " ... More >>

New York Jewish Film Festival Reflects a Semitic Identity Crisis

Joe the Plumber Says No One Should Report from Israel Except Joe the Plumber

There were protests over the Gaza incursion in New York this weekend -- a pro-Palestinian one at West 55th Street and Eighth Avenue, at which seven police officers were reported hurt and ten protesters arrested, and a pro-Israeli one near the UN. Meanwhile Joe the Plumber was in Israel, telling t ... More >>

'Times' declares war on news, gets right in your grille -- for a change

The Times as Jimmy Cagney and the reader as Mae Clarke. It's about time. A banner day for the New York Times. Newspapers that don't go out for blood are worthless. The Times often should be itself flayed because it so often doesn't take full advantage of its tremendous resources and usually und ... More >>

Palestinian Supporters, Jon Stewart Dis Mayor

A pro-Palestinian demonstration was held at City Hall yesterday, WCBS reports, and part of the entertainment was a chance to throw shoes at a picture of Michael Bloomberg. The larger point was to criticize Bloomberg for his implication that New York supported Israel in its conflict with Gaza. "He d ... More >>

Blintzkrieg in Gaza; Madoff covers up family jewels

"Gaza medics in the line of fire," from Al Jazeera Congratulations to the New York Times. The word "war" made it into a front-page story this morning about Israel's war on Gaza. Ethan Bronner's piece even sports the word in its headline: "Gaza War Role Is Political Lift for Ex-Premier." As I ... More >>

Jews v. Arabs: It's war, even if the 'Times' tries to avoid calling it that

Al Jazeera reporting on the war in Gaza Will somebody please call this a war? You won't find the word "war" in this morning's lede story in the New York Times on Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza. Is the Times afraid of offending New York's Jews, especially the right-wing Jewish establ ... More >>

News From All Over

Outside the New York perimeter, the world is, as usual, blowing up. Israel observed a brief truce to allow humatarian aid into Gaza, and then commenced to bomb the shit out of them again. Russia is doing its usual mid-winter nut-squeeze on the oil pipeline leading through the Ukraine to Europe, and ... More >>

Bloomberg Defends Israel Stance

Having this weekend visited Israel and strongly backed that country's incursion into Gaza, Mayor Bloomberg has reaffirmed his support, saying "This is one of those clear-cut cases. There's one terrorist organization that says repeatedly we're going to try to kill and maim as many innocent people as ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely

Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests the best title for the first movie spurred by Israel's current invasion of Gaza. On an overseas t ... More >>

amNY Finds Upsides to New Year, Which We Partially Endorse

You might expect us, as board-certified curmudgeons, to note the end of 2008 with bleak visions of a hellish new year. But our colleague Ward Harkavy has already posted the mother of all New Year's bummers ("Drop a ball on Times Square! Drop a bomb on Gaza!"), so we turn instead to such glimmers of ... More >>

Will the Latest Jerusalem Bloodshed Be Followed By Talks or Intifada?

The Cold, Cold Heart of Hamas

With new killings of Palestinians and Israelis, is a two-state solution gone?

TABLOIDED: The Mourning After Heath Ledger

School's a Blast in Middle East

Say My Name

Who's afraid of Rachel Corrie? Artists clamor for play to be seen

Rita, Katrina: Religious Fringe Sees Apocalypse Now

You say global warming, they say wrath of God

Letters

Morning Report 8/19/05
Dual Disloyalty: Feith and the Occupations of Gaza and Iraq

Standing Still Is Drama in Gaza

'Disengagement': Just Another Brick in the Wall

Meanwhile in Palestine

Obscured by an election, Iraq, and Sudan, Gaza smolders

Intrigue in Gaza

Was Ahmed Working for Al Qaeda or Israel?

Music

Battle of the Wombs

The Future's Numbers Game

Film

Letter From Gaza

The Land of Cabin Fever

Palestine 101

A Short Take on a Long History

Crime Scenes

Where the Hell Are You?

An Open Letter From Israel to American Tourists

Dove Tales

Uprooting the Olive Branch

Ongoing Israeli Repression Fuels Bitterness in Gaza

Shoot to Maim

Israel’s Favored Ammo is Crippling a Generation of Young Palestinians