Category Archives: Israeli Government

Fear, the African refugees and the cost of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state

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Neta Golan was shocked, but not surprised, by the images of a Tel Aviv mob attacking African immigrants. As an Israeli, she was familiar with fear and anger being directed towards non-Jews in Israel and the occupied territories. She says this fear is the result of a never-ending demographic war seen as essential for maintaining Israel as a Jewish state.

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Netanyahu govt to impose fines on mayors of cities that employ migrant workers

The Netanyahu government will impose fines on mayors who hire migrant workers, pushing a slight tactical difference between him and the mob-riling Knesset members responsible for the violent attacks earlier this week.

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UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’

Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading

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And we live on…

In spite of the ‘birds of death, hovering two meters from our breath,’ the people of Gaza live on

Posted in Arab Spring, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports | 5 Comments

US official — we went to Israel first

US gov’t negotiators on Iran issue briefed Israel on recent talks before they briefed their own government

Posted in Iran, Israeli Government, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

Rafah march for deteriorating hunger strikers as family appeals for support

Hundreds of Palestinians, led by Scouts from throughout the besieged Gaza Strip, marched in Rafah today to demand that Israel release Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi, two detainees still on hunger strike.

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Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading

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Avigdor Lieberman to Jews worldwide: ‘You must love me’

Haaretz reports on Avigdor Lieberman’s trip to speak at a Jewish National Fund event in London. Lieberman has been taken aback by criticism of his invitation from Zionist activists in the UK: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Tuesday to a … Continue reading

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Why ‘Brand Israel’ is failing

Ambassador Michael Oren’s recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is timely – and appropriate. Israel is less popular among young Americans than ever before. And it will only grow more unpopular as more facts about the occupation make their way into the American mainstream.

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Israel Land Administration charged with race and gender discrimination

The Israel Land Administration (ILA), the powerhouse behind Israeli territorial expansion, is being challenged in Israel’s high court over race and gender discrimination. Currently, all of the council’s 22 members were Jewish men, and 10 are representatives of the Jewish National Fund.

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Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading

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Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case

Nearly a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the Israeli military with a weaponized Caterpillar D9 tractor, an Israeli judge will issue a ruling in August on the civil suit filed by the Corrie family.

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Israelis sling racial epithets to mark 45 years of a Jerusalem ‘unification’

On Sunday Israel celebrated 45 years of occupying East Jerusalem with thousands of jubilant right-wingers hurling racial epithets as they paraded through the Old City and Muslim Quarter during “Jerusalem Day,” a state holiday embracing the 1967 capture of the city.

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Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 83 Comments

Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi convicted by Israeli courts based on coerced testimony from 15-year-old boy

Bassem Tamimi was arrested in March of 2011, indicted on protest-organizing charges, and has spent 13 months in jail before he was granted bail last month. His trial has shed light on systematic violations of Palestinian minors’ right during police interrogations, and the use of their coerced confession to persecute political leadership.

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The Messiah’s Donkey: Settlers fire on Palestinian villagers as the Israeli military watches

B’tselem: On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village ‘Asira al-Qibliya, from the settlement Yitzhar.

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The Interior Minister’s call to expel African immigrants, in context

Eli Yishai, Israel’s Interior Minister, has a strong track record of racist anti-refugee remarks, and is representative of the “demographic threat” obsession that dominates Israeli politics.

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South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel

How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading

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‘King Bibi’ is ready for his close up, and ‘Time’ is willing to oblige

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Time magazine crowns Benjamin Netanyahu in its latest cover article, although he comes across as the leader of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

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New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric

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How long will Obama be able to honor Israel’s demographic concerns without sounding like a total racist?

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Censored children’s art show returns to California in San Diego exhibition

After being censored in Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art, the art exhibit “A Child’s View from Gaza” is scheduled to appear at the World Beat Center in San Diego on May 24, 2012 alongside the local premier of the film “Tears of Gaza”.

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Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine

Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack

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‏Inside, outside, Never Mind

Mohammed Al Nadi’s latest poem ‏Inside, outside, Never Mind.

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Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget

News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.

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‘The Nakba is BS’: Right-wing Israelis protest student-run Nakba commemoration at Tel Aviv U

Tel Aviv University’s student union disavows a Nakba commemoration event at the campus, which is built on the ruins of a Palestinian village. The students were joined by hundreds of right-wing Israelis and extremist members of the Knesset

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