Category Archives: One state/Two states

A single-state vision must go beyond Israel vs Palestine, and be inclusive

A Mondoweiss commenter, Sumud, offers a vision that goes beyond Israel vs Palestine

Posted in Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, One state/Two states | 41 Comments

US continued arms shipments to Egypt despite proof they were being used on protesters

Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite the fact they were being used on protesters.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 11 Comments

The tax-deductible Occupation

There are good NGOs and bad NGOs in Tel Aviv’s eyes. The new Likud-Yisrael Beitenu NGO funding legislation is aimed at the bad ones. Bad ones criticize the Occupation. Good ones help it along. This bill will limit and tax … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 17 Comments

Netanyahu throws in with Lieberman on legislation targeting dissident NGO’s

Netanyahu aligns with the far right on bill cracking down on foreign donations to dissident organizations

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 7 Comments

A Warsaw Ghetto with guns (my recent trip to Israel/Palestine)

A visit to Israel and Palestine finds a militarized, bunkered Israel, with North Face logos, and a segregated Palestinian population that hates its affliction. But social media bring hope.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states | 111 Comments

Questions about Bernard Avishai’s ‘Harper’s’ piece

Bernard Avishai says Israel is ‘Hebrew haven in a heartless world’ for Jews, but how heartless has world been to him?

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | 27 Comments

Wait, did the South Carolina legislature pass a one-state resolution?!

South Carolina house passed law calling for one country in Israel (and Palestine) “governed under one law for all people”

Posted in Israel Lobby, One state/Two states | 28 Comments

‘NYT’ focuses on extremist attacks on Palestinians inside Israel

Extremist settlers have violently targeted Palestinians in the West Bank. Now they’re doing it in Israel

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states | 18 Comments

I hold my breath, Haaretz

Haaretz is out front in describing anti-democratic forces in Israel. Who will take up this journalistic challenge in the west? Especially as another Nakba is threatened

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

Bernard-Henri Levy insists settlements are not ‘colonies’ but minute ‘implantations’

Swiss coverage of new Geneva Initiative features Bernard-Henri Levy saying Israeli settlements are minimal ‘implantations’ not colonies

Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states | 27 Comments

Revival of Geneva Initiative features divisive figure: Bernard-Henri Levy

Swiss renew Geneva Initiative, but effort features a divisive figure, Bernard-Henri Levy

Posted in Israel Lobby, One state/Two states | 143 Comments

A poet visits his mother’s grave

A video interview of Saed Abu Hijleh, a poet and lecturer of political geography, at the grave of his mother Shaden, who was killed at 61 in 2002 during the Second Intifada. The scene is Nablus, in occupied Palestine. Abu Hijleh says that one democratic secular state is the only answer to unending oppression.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states | 5 Comments

Derfner slams Jason Alexander as yet another ‘evenhanded liberal failure’

Jason Alexander goes to Jerusalem to make peace. Jason Alexander fails because he cannot say that Israel is the rejectionist

Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics | 43 Comments

Dubious Charlie Rose asks Ehud Barak why not one state?

Charlie Rose asks Ehud Barak about one state solution and Barak responds with racial gerrymandering.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states | 57 Comments

Avigdor Lieberman’s PowerPoint for Diplomatic Success™

In four simple slides: Slide 1. Punish Ramallah. Slide 2. Topple Hamas. Slide 3. ???? Slide 4. Mideast Peace!

Posted in Gaza, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Neocons, One state/Two states, US Politics | 11 Comments

Vice PM Moshe Ya’alon: Regime change in Ramallah will ultimately be necessary for peace talks to progress

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon (Likud), former head of Israeli Intelligence in the West Bank and the IDF Chief of Staff during the Second Intifada, told Arutz Sheva that he does not believe that … Continue reading

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 105 Comments

“Anti-Price Tag Patrol” criticized by Israeli right; settlers demand stronger IDF response

In response to expected clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians over the UN vote on Palestinian statehood, the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and the Israel group Anarchists Against The Wall are launching their own patrol efforts around Palestinian villages. … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 24 Comments

Gideon Levy (unintentionally) lays bare the contradictions of liberal Zionism

Usually Gideon Levy’s razor-sharp commentaries in Haaretz get to the heart of the matter, but I think he blew a gasket with his latest, comparing the P.A.’s bid for statehood to early Zionist politics. Sure, there are a few tenuous … Continue reading

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Israeli Settlers: ‘Arabs’ attacked us first . . . with harsh language

Israel National News: “First Arab ‘September Attack’: Convoy Approached Negohot; September attacks have begun: Arabs in 40-50 vehicles drove along Jewish community’s fence, taunted and jeered.” Presumably, this will be used as evidence to suggest that the Arabs “started it,” … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 105 Comments

Rick Perry to appear at Likud rodeo in New York

Hoo boy. It’s going to be a real ultra-Zionist lovefest in New York City Tuesday as  GOP luminaries, Likud machers and members of the Israel lobby convene at 10am at the W Hotel near Union Square. Their rally/press conference will … Continue reading

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 34 Comments

Saudis to US: You’re sleeping on the couch tonight

Prominent Saudi officials have been wagging their fingers at the U.S. since 9/11, trying to convince Washington that Riyadh is as indispensable to the U.S.’s Middle East status quo as Tel Aviv is. One such prominent Saudi official, Prince Bandar, … Continue reading

Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 23 Comments

House reps reach across the aisle at last . . . to smack Ramallah and Geneva upside the head

If one thing has the potential to unite the fractious U.S. House of Representatives, it is the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN. First up, we have Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Chairwoman of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, … Continue reading

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 9 Comments

Zygmunt Bauman: Palestinian persecution echoes the Shoah, which began with discrimination, ghettoes and pogroms

Several weeks ago, the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman gave a stunning interview to the Polish journal, Polityka, on Zionism, the Holocaust, and Israel’s cult of war. In it he charges Israel’s leaders with actively discouraging peace, with seeking war instead … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics | 18 Comments

Slouching toward theocracy: Tehran and Tel Aviv may have something in common

A friend of mine who graduated from journalism school in Iran several years ago (and is now living and working in the U.S.) recently returned from a trip back there, only to learn this: Iranian University Drops 13 Humanities Majors … Continue reading

Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Politics | 36 Comments

IslamoMaoists! Progressives in disguise!

Twitter user “The Dersh” (no, not that Dersh) invented the word “IslamoMaoist” to describe “anyone who wants Israel to be a state of all its citizens with full & equal rights for everyone.” Journalist Joseph Dana, of +972 Magazine, has … Continue reading

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