Muslim Baiting: Peter King's Dangerous Obsession
In the last month and half, the Muslim world has been re-imagined in Western minds. On our television screens, at least before the upheaval in Libya, we saw women on the streets of Cairo, peaceful demonstrations, dictators overthrown. It was a different Islamic world than the one we'd been shown before, one that craves democracy, privileges peace; it was a counterpoint to Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," and it provided a recognition of shared values, shared hopes. The world we saw is imperfect, to be sure. Women are struggling to be equal partners in that peaceful revolution. ...
John Galliano, Anti-Semitism, and the Power of Words
In just days, one of the greatest names in modern fashion has seen his reputation scrambled, from cheeky enfant terrible to accused bigot. Last Thursday night, John Galliano, Christian Dior's star designer, was drinking at the Paris watering hole and fashionista favorite La Perle, when he allegedly tore into a 35-year-old gallery owner named Geraldine Bloch. He's accused of calling her an "ugly Jew face" with bad eyebrows and cheap boots and threatening her friend with equally noxious epithets (the friend, apparently, is Asian). At first, Galliano was simply suspended from the House of Dior, ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann, Stay Out of My Bra
Dear Representative Bachmann: I am part of the "nanny state." You don't know me. Nor, as far as I know, do you know any of the women I see each week at my daughter's preschool: moms of toddlers and infants, many of whom have had the good fortune of knowing their mothers' milk. Though, I'm sure, plenty of your constituents are me. I understand you, too, breast-fed. Mazel tov. I'm so glad it worked for you, for your children, for your family. But I can't help but wonder -- after you falsely claimed the government of buying breast pumps for everyone, and decried the new IRS tax deduction for ...
Israel Quietly Shuts Down Embassies as Sabers Rattle in the Middle East
As Days of Rage continue across the Middle East, and thoughts are far from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Israeli Foreign Ministry took the unusual step earlier this week of quietly shutting down four embassies and putting others on high alert. That's because as attention has turned to protests in Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Iran, sabers are rattling between Lebanon and Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that his nation could once again enter Lebanon, and Hezbollah once again promised to avenge its martyrs. That would be one martyr, in particular. At least this ...
Days of Rage: As Mideast Protests Spread, Peaceful Outcomes Are Up in the Air
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after an 18-day quiet revolution, but the region is hardly at rest. What started in Tunisia has spread thick and fast throughout the region. Algeria is simmering. Jordan is fitful. Iran and Syria are clamping down on protests. Bahrain and Yemen have protests in the streets. Eighteen days may have changed Egypt, but the rest of the Middle East has hardly returned to normal. Asked Monday if she had a message for protesters in the region, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton replied, "Remain peaceful, nonviolent. That is what worked so well in ...
IRS Says Breastfeeding Expenses Are Tax Write-Offs. Finally.
Everyone markets it as cheap and easy. As in, "You can whip it out at any time." And, "It doesn't cost anything." And, "There's nothing to warm up." To a degree, that's true. Traveling and doing it is liberating. And the middle of the night? You can do it in bed; you can do it while you watch TV. But "cheap" isn't really a good descriptor for something so time-consuming and ultimately, especially, but not only, for women who work or want to step away from their child, so many accoutrements. And cheap isn't a good way to applaud something that provides so many benefits down the road. Cheap ...
Henri Huet, 'Most Influential' Vietnam War Photojournalist, Finally Honored
You might not know his name, but you've seen his work. Haunting images of men up to their waists in mud, wading through South East Asian jungles. Maybe you've seen the series of medic Thomas Cole, himself bloodied and half-blinded, covered in a sagging, once-white bandage, tending to men strewn about a makeshift hospital, a clearing really, filled with the dead, the dying, the wounded. Forty years ago today, four photojournalists died when they were shot down over the Laos sky: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Kent Potter of United Press International, Keizaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek and the ...
Israel Tense as Egypt Slides Into Power Vacuum
Around the world, in the corridors of power and on the streets, the word is everywhere: Egypt. But perhaps nowhere is that word uttered with more trepidation, more grim uncertainty, and more mortal stress than in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israeli leaders are concerned about preserving the 30-year cold peace with Egypt, signed by Hosni Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar El-Sadat, the leader who paid for that treaty with his life. They are concerned about what the dissolution of Egypt's government means for the future of the peace process. As Egypt's immediate neighbors to the north, Israelis are ...
Cairo Is Not Berlin: The Folly of Mistaking Egypt for the Former Eastern Bloc
"Whatever the future holds . . . the tide can never be turned back." Words about Egypt's days of protest, which broke out last Tuesday? No. Written this week? No. The sentence comes from Page One of the Washington Post on Aug. 31, 1980. The country was Poland. The story was striking Lenin Shipyard workers. The demonstrators in the above-the-fold photo were cheering Lech Walesa. The analogy to the beginning of the end of the Iron Curtain is so easy; it's a language we all know: "This is the Arab world's Berlin moment," Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International ...
Secretary of State Clinton: End the Violence and Lift the Information Blackout in Egypt
As night fell on the Egyptian cities of Cairo and Alexandria, President Hosni Mubarak, the leader of the Nile River country for nearly 30 years, imposed a curfew on thousands of protesters clogging the streets. It doesn't appear to have been obeyed. Then again, the protesters, most of whom are calling for an end to the Mubarak regime, could say they hadn't heard the news: All Internet access as well as all cell phone networks have been blocked in Egypt. Observers are calling the move one of the most massive information blackouts in the history of social networking. In the meantime, rumors ...
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