Anees, our Jerusalem correspondent, offers this roadmap of the Israeli relationship to the Palestinian minority: Early 1970’s: “We have no solution… You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this…
AC writes, before the ceasefire: Video of Tzipi Livni being called a terrorist at her 1/16 National Press Club appearance has surfaced (shorter version). It was mentioned in the Israeli press. A couple of days ago an Al-Jazeera-English a reporter…
since beginning of the war and 230 are still in prison, reports Neve Gordon. The purpose: shutting down internal debate of the immoral assault.
A brilliant point at Tzipi Livni’s press conference in DC yesterday. Sam Husseini, media director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, makes the point (at about 8:30 or so) that the government of Israel states that it started the Six-Day…
Avi Shavit busts loose on the insanity of Olmert’s war. it is destroying Israel. Destroying its soul and its image. Destroying it on world television screens, in the living rooms of the international community and most importantly, in Obama’s America….
The Forward does a piece on Olmert “shaming Rice” (what Pat Buchanan has called the last “poodle” moment for Olmert and Condi): “I have no problem with what Olmert did,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “I…
The Telegraph: European human-rights leaders talk about war crimes. But Arab states are largely unmoved by Gaza’s plight because they fear Islamic militancy in their own states.
I think the idea of a Jewish state might be over. I hesitate to declare such things because I’m so far away, but certainly its international legitimacy has been dealt a serious blow. And here is Zionist Bernard Avishai saying…