The UN has called on Israel to end house demolition in East Jerusalem, which has displaced 90 people this year, 400 last. Because of Israel’s control over building permits in the occupied territories, which includes East Jerusalem, illegally annexed, 60,000…
Hillary Clinton agrees with me. She has accepted the core lesson of the Iraq experience–and says that the U.S. must deal with one-time terrorist elements in working with a unity government the Palestinians form. The old No partner for peace…
Being Friday afternoon, it only seems appropriate to pass along this important rabbinical reflection. Rabbi Brant Rosen has done it again. Below is from a post on his blog entitled “Why I Didn’t Celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut.” Yom Ha’atzmaut is Independence…
Writing in the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah dissects two recent polls that claim to measure Palestinian attitudes towards the peace process and possible solutions to the conflict following the war in Gaza. He looks at two polls – one by…
Bruce Wolman writes: This morning’s Ha’aretz was more negative on Israel than Mondoweiss. Couldn’t believe how many articles you could post. Aluf Benn had an extremely scary piece on Netanyahu and Obama, Is Netanyahu bringing Israel closer to a ‘second…
It was inevitable. The Justice Department has moved to drop charges against two former Israel lobbyists of passing top-secret information to the Israelis, reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The gov’t acted because judicial rulings had set the bar too high…
“The mindset and basic values of Israeli Jewish society and Palestinian Muslim society are so different and mutually exclusive as to render a vision of binational statehood tenable only in the most disconnected and unrealistic of minds. The value placed…
“The mindset and basic values of Israeli Jewish society and Palestinian Muslim society are so different and mutually exclusive as to render a vision of binational statehood tenable only in the most disconnected and unrealistic of minds. The value placed…
The great challenge in bringing Iraq home to Americans is to show that we have supported a unity government in Baghdad that includes factions that once supported suicide terrorism. President Obama has this wisdom when it comes to the Palestinians….