C.A. Pinkham's saved articles

Your moving the goal posts in an attempt to be right about something, but it doesn't work. US policy has been to allow the settlements by doing nothing. Because we agree on a state department level with the UN's definition of illegal settlements doesn't mean policy and funding as dictated by Congress have done… Read more

Living in the tri-state area, I can tell you that bringing up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the best way to get seemingly educated people to start hurling violent vitriol at one another. Read more

Regardless of your opinion on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, if your response to someone who disagrees with you is to issue a death threat then you are wrong. Do you imagine that there are acceptable reasons to threaten a person/people with death? Like gamers are crazy to do it when games are criticized but serve… Read more

As residents of Squirrel Hill, my boyfriend and I saw this one coming from a mile away. Read more

Methinks you don't know what "typo" means. It wasn't a typo at all. Read more

I'm Jewish and I still don't get the whole 'self-hating jew' tag if you say something even remotely against Israeli policies in the Occupied Territories. In fact I can get flack just for calling them Occupied Territories. It's beyond frustrating, it's tearing apart the American Jewish community. Read more

They should serve every type of food, since there is always a reason for America to hate someone, even America hates America at times. Read more

No it isn't. It's a small but integral part of a larger story that doesn't get nearly as much airtime in America as the other side does. Read more

I'm a little late here but my boyfriend is wondering why I'm re-enacting the "why? Why?"scene from Steel Magnolias... Read more

Well, the US gives the Israeli military money, which the Israeli military uses to buy weapons from American corporations (among other uses of course.) Then the Israeli military drops some of those weapons on the Palestinians. That is pretty damn supportive. Read more

Pinkham, I like you more and more all the time. Read more

I think the point of Conflict Kitchen is to highlight the voices that Americans don't generally hear. It's smart to do that with food because it is something elemental and very regional but not necessarily nationalistic. The policy of the United States is to support the foreign policy of Israel, so Americans have… Read more

Well, when people make up their mind to live in literal enemy territory (and sporadic war zone), I doubt the main draw is a bigger garden, better schools, and a faster commute to work. Read more

Yeah, but you're self-hating. ;-p Read more

Unfortunately, yes, most Israeli perspectives are anti-Palestinian ones. This comes from someone who grew up with an Israeli father and an American Jewish mother, and I can say that without hesitation. My father/family believes that the only good Arab or Palestinian is a dead one, period. Read more

I'm just going to sit here and munch popcorn. I like to argue, but there are arguments even I don't touch. Read more

For a very long time, I had no real opinion one way or the other about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Like a lot of Americans, I grew up sort of defaulting to Israel being the good guys and the Palestinians being the bad guys, but that was more or less the end of it. Read more

Gaysian, maybe Behind Closed Ovens isn't perfect, but that's no reason to try to kill CA! Read more

Ubertrout, take a shot every time (feel free to add more as you wish):