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,…
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…
Reem Salahi writes in Electronic Intifada about what she saw and heard in Gaza on a recent National Lawyers Guild delegation: But let us play the devil’s advocate and agree that the majority of Israel’s attacks were completely reactionary and…
Everyone who comes to this site should be aware that right now the point of the lance is Times columnist Roger Cohen, who, “shamed” by Gaza, has done the best work on Israel/Palestine at the Times (I know, not a…
When we talk about the Israel lobby, we have to talk about the emotional energy that binds it. We must talk about the fact that Americans for Peace Now, a good organization with fair ideas about Israel/Palestine, has remained on…
Dennis Ross is a diplomat pretty high in the State Department under Hillary Clinton. He was lately appointed a special adviser on the Persian Gulf/Iran. Till lately, Ross was chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, an Israeli thinktank….
Hillary Clinton just landed in Israel and the Israeli press is already pessimistic about what she’ll think about the state of Israeli politics. From the YNet article “Official: Rightist government may hurt US-Israel relations”: “Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s views on…
Here’s Rbguy at Daily Kos urging people to weigh in with their congresspeople to back a more evenhanded policy in the Middle East and noting that SOS Clinton’s efforts are being supported by a wide-ranging set of Muslim, Christian and…
Shir Hever cites four articles in Israel that demonstrate the growing concern over the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. Here’s an excerpt of his piece, mentioning one of those articles: In 3 February, Nehemia Strassler, one of Israel’s most famous economic…