From the Associated Press: A senior aide to Netanyahu, national security adviser Uzi Arad, suggested the Israeli leader might not yield to pressure from Obama for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. He also seemed to hint that…
James North writes: The New Yorker’s legendary fact-checkers must have taken time off recently, when Philip Gourevitch’s long look at Rwanda 15 years after the genocide (May 4) passed through their department. Not only is the article so one-sided that…
Last night demonstrators outside Radio City Music Hall called on Leonard Cohen to cancel a gig he has planned for Israel in September. The pressure will continue through Cohen’s tour this summer. From Adalah: “With the construction of the Apartheid…
Reuters has a good article today on what should have been obvious to Ethan Bronner – it is the Israeli occupation that is running Palestinian Christians out of the West Bank. From the article “Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village”:…
The New York Times halfway recognizes the Nakba today in a piece from Tel Aviv by Dina Kraft about (that cliche of the moment) competing narratives. Kraft can’t work herself up to actually say that Arabs were driven out of…
From Haaretz: Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with U.S. President…
From Haaretz: Israel has begun constructing a new settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, Army Radio reported. The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meeting with U.S. President…
This site has talked about how informal social pressure works to enforce consensus on Israel within the Jewish community. The following piece shows how this currently works in Israel, which is beginning to look like a police state to Jews…