Mishegaas for Jan. 8, 2009

• The International Crisis Group weighs in on the War in Gaza. [International Crisis Group]
• I somehow missed this Dec. 8 piece on Rabbi Menachem Froman, the chief rabbi of the West Bank settlement Tekoah, who advocates for peace and reconciliation with Hamas. If you missed it too, I highly recommend it. [NY Times]
• Ross Douthat explores a debate between The Israel Lobby co-author Stephen Walt and his colleague Christian Brose at Foreign Policy about the Chabonian proposition of Israel losing the Six Day War. [The Atlantic]
• The conflict in Gaza has resulted in a swift uptick in antisemitic incidents throughout Europe. [AP]
• An observant Muslim protester in Florida told Jewish counterprotesters to “go back to the oven.” [Fox News]
• Even incidentally Jewish math bloggers are under attack! [Good Math, Bad Math]
• Saudi FM Prince Saud Al-Faisal says OPEC rejects Iran’s call to cut off oil supplies to Israel. [Reuters]
• Benazir Bhutto’s daughter explores her grief with homebrew hip-hop. [Buzzfeed]
• “As president-elect, one of Obama’s first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of America’s favorite lawyer to be the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama’s pick as deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension Act–the same law that [Larry] Lessig and his allies unsuccessfully sued to overturn.” [CNET]
• Brian Clark Howard, a friend of the blog, on why Sanjya Gupta is a poor choice for Surgeon General. [The Daily Green]
• A personal study of a-holes. [Flickr]

Tags: gaza, israel, palestine, War