by Matthew Friedman | Aug 11, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I have Israeli friends. It seems strange to say that, since I seem to be setting up the classic bigot’s apologia: “some of my best friends are Jewish… Or Black… Or Gay… Or whatever.” Yet, I mention this only because many people don’t, and I believe that this is...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 4, 2024 | Gaza Journal
President Lyndon Johnson stood before the American people late at night sixty years ago today, on 4 August 1964, and lied. Two American warships, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy, had come under an “unprovoked attack” by North Vietnamese gunboats in international...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 28, 2024 | Gaza Journal
One of my great regrets is that I will never visit Eretz Zion. Make no mistake, I have never felt a great compulsion to visit the State of Israel, despite many opportunities. Part of the Diaspora Jewish experience is confronting, and often dodging, the offers of...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 21, 2024 | Gaza Journal
How does it end? I have been asking myself this question since 7 October 2023. In January, three months into the State of Israel’s War on Gaza, I mused, “This is the eleventh entry in my Gaza Journal, and I could never have believed, when I began, that I would still...
by Matthew Friedman | Jul 14, 2024 | Gaza Journal
From the outside, the War on Gaza has settled into those surreal doldrums that happen with wars. From the inside, the suffering continues, and the IDF continues to pummel the enclave with artillery, drones, and bombs, and Israeli soldiers stumble over the rubble of...
