Author Archives: Anees of Jerusalem

Harman had close ties to Bush White House

From the Ryan Dawson’s anti-Neocons site, this is said to be a photo from 2006 of Congresswoman Jane Harman and Bush Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff, a former prosecutor, out for a jog. Anees of Jerusalem writes: What’s interesting about…
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Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East | 19 Comments

Friedman hints at bombing Iran

Anees writes from Jerusalem (where alas, he is a second-class citizen): I usually avoid reading Thomas Friedman, but I was intrigued by the title, “In the Age of Pirates”. He does not specifically say it, but what he writes can…
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Posted in Beyondoweiss, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine | 28 Comments

Think of all those images we’ve seen of vandalized Jewish gravestones as evidence of anti-Semitism

This photo (by Mamoun Wazwaz, for the Maan News agency) depicts Palestinian leader Mustafa Bargouti at a graveyard in Hebron, where several Palestinian gravestones were desecrated by settlers. The accompanying article describes more settler violence in Hebron: an ambulance stoned…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

‘Do we dare to celebrate Jerusalem in Jerusalem?’

Anees writes from Jerusalem: The compliant Palestinian Authority readily accepted Israel’s suppression of yesterday’s celebrations. They had known at least a week before that Israel won’t allow the main celebration to be here in Jerusalem, and the invites they sent…
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The unceasing smile of the 2-state blues

Hillary Clinton and Shimon Peres in Jerusalem today; Photo by Menahem Kahana for AFP. Anees of Jerusalem writes: Did you see TV footage of Clinton’s visit? I saw two quick clips. One in which, in a press conference type setting,…
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Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Politics | 15 Comments

But wait, given a choice, Palestinians would prefer to live in Israel over neighboring societies, right?

A Zionist friend told me recently that polls show that most Palestinians living in Israel would prefer to live there than in neighboring societies; they like the freedom. He offered this as the smoking-gun of Israel’s advancement. I asked my…
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Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Politics | 25 Comments