Reality Check: Contemplating Gaza James Campion August 6, 2014 Columns In the spring of 2003, a few months after the release of my third book, Trailing Jesus, I spoke to CNN Radio in New York City on the second floor of 1 Penn Plaza. It was another in a seemingly endless but exhil...
Between & Beyond: Israel Michael Lutomski July 23, 2014 Columns If you are a person who claims to be concerned about foreign policy and the affairs of governments in general, you can’t get very far into this kind of awareness without encountering a stance on Israel. I recal...
Deleted Scenes: Hey, By The Way, War JJ Koczan November 21, 2012 Columns Blah blah blah Israel. Blah blah Palestine. Blah missile strikes. Blah blah outrage blah. Blah dead kids blah blah blah. Ground invasion possible blah blah blah, blah blah more dead kids. Blah blah bloodbath...
The Freak Show: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice Hal B. Selzer October 5, 2011 Columns The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, recently presented his case for recognition of Palestine as the United Nation’s 194th member state. It is currently being discussed by an admissions c...
The Freak Show: A Middle East Quandary Hal B. Selzer June 1, 2011 Columns 4 It’s strange times in the Middle East these days. The so-called “Arab Spring” continues, with the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, while in Libya, the civil war rages on with assistance to the r...
Yael Naim: iPop George Steffani May 4, 2011 Goings-On She's the first Israeli solo artist to have a top 10 hit in the United States, and you might know her from the early 2008 Apple commercial for the MacBook Air, which featured her hit single “New Soul.” Yael Nai...
Karzai, Musharraf, Netanyahu: With Friends Like These… James Campion April 9, 2010 Columns 3 Rumors of Afghani President Hamid Karzai’s drug use in the wake of his inflammatory anti-American comments are highly suspect. While it is true that Karzai has an insatiable appetite for chewing pure hashish br...
