About Michael Weiss

From a former IDF solider: Dear Soldier, Here’s the thing. You’ve got to help the children. You’re not Hamas. You’re better than Hamas. So act it. I once asked Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, the late, unlamented Hamas leader, if he would help … Read More

The scholar of just war theory explains that the term "disproportionate" has been mistakenly used by commentators discussing the Gaza war; they’ve got it backwards: How many civilian deaths are "not disproportionate to" the value of defeating the Nazis? Answer … Read More

The Trade Union Congress is raising money for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Please note that the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions and the International Transport Workers’ Federation are not just independent entities–they are considered enemies by Hamas. Whatever your … Read More

My former employer Pajamas Media has decided to dispatch Joe the Plumber to Israel as a roving correspondent to, as he puts it, let "Average Joes’ share their story."  The inevitable fallout when a PR neutron bomb like this goes … Read More

From Haaretz: French public television network France 2 on Tuesday revealed they had aired photographs that allegedly showed destruction caused by the Israel Air Force during Operation Cast Lead, which were in fact taken during a different incident in 2005, … Read More

Foreign Policy blogger Marc Lynch (a.k.a. Abu Aardvark) has an interesting post up at FP’s new-minted digital playground, which has already drawn lurid attention to itself for its inclusion of Israel Lobby theorist Stephen Walt and his dubious "thought experiments." … Read More

I have already tried to show how Hamas has failed the people of Palestine politically, and how even the most optimistic appraisal of the organization’s supposed "pragmatism" has failed to pan out, even under exigent circumstances in which pragmatism should … Read More

Of course they have one. (For what it’s worth, so does the Multinational Force-Iraq): The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit is the Israel Defense Forces’ professional body responsible for media and public relations in Israel and around the world. This is our … Read More