The Post-Partisan Emporium

The ICC Warrants and the World They Announce Patrick Lawrence LONDON—There is an old, often-told story about a front-page article one of the big dailies here once ran as severe weather hit in these parts. “Storm in Channel, Continent Cut Off,” the headline read. Nobody is certain any newspaper ever published any such story with any such headline. The majority view is that it is an apocryphal tale meant to suggest the Anglocentric sensibility you sometimes find among the English. People cite some specifics from time to time: It appeared in The Times in the 1930s. No, it was in the Daily Mirror in the 1940s. “A common date and name I’ve seen,” a reader remarked some years ago in  AskHistorians , a portal carried on Reddit, “is The Daily Telegraph somewhere in 1929.” I have always been inclined to the view that there’s a home truth in this chestnut but no literal truth to it. With the reporting coming out since the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime...

The State of Israel as "Cartoonishly Evil"?  Ron Unz Itamar Ben-Gvir, Convicted Terrorist and Current Israeli Minister of National Security Last week I published  an article  on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place. Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing Republican candidate. But although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time: Politico  is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published  a ...