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Israel/Palestine

Steinhardt and Khouri agree: it’s not about borders, it’s about refugees

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

Rami Khouri, Lebanese editor, speaking on NPR, and Michael Steinhardt, the funder of several neoconservative outlets, writing in the Wall Street Journal, say that the big issue is not borders, it’s refugees. I can’t get the Steinhardt because it’s behind a fire wall, but it begins, "settlements are no longer the real issue that separates [...]

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Israeli insult to Biden should have been no surprise

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

Max Blumenthal puts the lie to the claim that the interior minister surprised Netanyahu with his announcement of further settlements with this report on a hoedown with John Hagee and Netanyahu on the eve of Biden’s visit, in which there was endless talk of further settlements:

Vice President Joe Biden was greeted in Jerusalem with the [...]

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‘To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain’

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

Akiva Eldar in Haaretz says that the US signed off on the East Jerusalem Judaization.

To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain. Therefore, he lauded Netanyahu’s assertion that actual construction in Ramat Shlomo would begin only in another several years.

Thus Israel essentially received an American green light [...]

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Palestinians not ready to play Broadway, need more time in dinner theaters

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

The Dubai insult is at last breaking down the doors of the American discourse. Maybe those Palestinians aren’t so crazy? Israeli Palestinian Ahmad Tibi is printed in the Times. Oh: that’s The Washington Times, breaking the news about Jim Crow:

We are entering a time period similar to that faced by the United States 50 years [...]

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Ahmed Moor: Why I am for academic boycott

by Ahmed Moor12 March 2010

The boycott of Israeli academics and academic institutions has always made me a little uneasy. We all read books by Israeli academics that at their humanist best elucidate and inform, and at their racist worst reveal something about the Zionist zeitgeist. I read Ha’aretz, Ynet and the Jerusalem Post on a daily basis [...]

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My nephew in Jerusalem is headed to Poland

by Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel12 March 2010

My nephew beeped me on ICQ last night. He’s in the eleventh grade at a Jerusalem high school, which means he will be going on a school trip to Poland. He wanted to hear family stories from the Holocaust and the names of relatives who had perished, which he will use in a [...]

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Many western Jews believe: We need a Jewish state

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

Haaretz:

Jewish extremists have urged supermodel Bar Refaeli not to marry her actor boyfriend, Leonardo DiCaprio, because it would dilute the Jewish race, according to media reports.

In a letter to Refaeli, far-rightist Baruch Marzel wrote on behalf of nationalist group Lehava, which aims to fight assimilation among Jews: "It is not by chance that you [...]

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Cindy Corrie reaches out to Middle Easterners who have lost family members to violence

by Philip Weiss12 March 2010

AP story quotes the amazing parents of Rachel Corrie, outside the Haifa trial:

Cindy: "It left an enormous void in our lives that can never be replaced. And I know that many many people in this part of the world have similar voids in their lives."
Craig: "The truth will not wound Israel, the truth is a [...]

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Israel indicts soldiers for using human shields, but says Goldstone had nothing to do with it

by Alex Kane12 March 2010

Wait a second.  I thought Richard Goldstone’s United Nations report on the Gaza assault was "a distorted, false, and irresponsible report."
From Haaretz:

The Israel Defense Forces prosecution on Thursday filed an indictment against two combat soldiers suspected of inappropriate conduct during Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2008.
The soldiers, who served as staff sergeants in [...]

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Biden to Bibi: You are endangering us

by Philip Weiss11 March 2010

The Netanyahu insult to Joe Biden is the greatest thing that ever happened. It has woken a lot of people up, maybe including Joe Biden, who is streetsmart, and will allow the mainstream press in the US to finally question the special relationship and what it is doing to the American interest. You say I’m [...]

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Sullivan says Israel doesn’t want a viable Palestinian state

by Philip Weiss11 March 2010

Sullivan again. And notice that he runs at the top of his post the little postcard that they hand out at Palestinian solidarity events showing the four-part dispossession of Palestinians on their land since 1946. That’s how Zionism works. Imagine if Pakistan had never gotten a state under partition, just been promised one, and there [...]

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Unending myth of two-state solution has helped to destroy two-state-solution

by Paul Woodward11 March 2010

Isn’t it time that the “two-state solution” be regarded as an object of the imagination no more real than the Tibetan kingdom of Shambala?
At the heart of this Middle Eastern fable is another Shangri-La: Jerusalem, capital of the Jewish state and a Palestinian state.
In reality, Jews in an unremitting march of expansion are taking over [...]

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Neocon suggests that Palestinians are grabbing Jewish neighborhoods in E J’lem

by Jeffrey Blankfort11 March 2010

How quickly, David Makovsky moves into the "damage control" mode for Bibi at the New York Times site, saying he was blindsided by his interior minister. If Netanyahu didn’t know about it, which I doubt, the interior minister should be fired. BTW, it is not generally known that virtually all Israel cabinet ministers are appointed [...]

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what recession?

by Jeff Blankfort and Phil Weiss11 March 2010

JPost says IDF raised $20 million at the Waldorf the other night:

There was scarce evidence of the global recession at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for the IDF in New York City on Tuesday night.

If the $5.2 million in tax exempt dollars raised on behalf of the Friends of the IDF in Beverly Hills last December 17 [...]

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