Matt Yglesias

What We Could Do for Palestinians

Amjad Atallah, director of the Middle East Task Force at New America and someone who deserves to be more prominent, has a very interesting BloggingHeads appearance alongside David Frum focused on the Gaza situation. In this clip, he offers a concrete suggestion of a helpful gesture the United States could make to show to the world that irrespective of our broader strategic orientation we do care about the suffering of Palestinian civilians:

Much more good stuff if you watch the whole episode.