Here is an update from Code Pink on the international delegations trying to get into Gaza. Phil’s delegation has not yet tried to get in. CAIRO – May 22 – As more than 160 Americans and other citizens from around…
It’s breakfast. Our group of 13 is getting ready to go to the US Embassy in Cairo to “waive our consular rights” while we’re in Gaza. If we get in. I don’t know if it’s possible to alienate your consular…
Ha’aretz is reporting that a ministerial panel has decided that a bill spearheaded by Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party to outlaw public commemoration of the Nakba in Israel can move on to the Knesset and cabinet for a vote. If…
One of the most impressive moments of the AIPAC conference was when they brought out 193 university student council presidents onto the stage. It seemed like a brilliant strategy to me; each of those presidents represented a relationship that AIPAC…
Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured two reviews of Israeli authors, both commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In one, Jeffery Goldberg reviewed Benny Morris’s latest book on the one state and two state solutions, and the other was a…
The Washington Post is reporting today that the Obama administration’s desire to challenge Israeli settlement expansion is being made more difficult by a “secret” deal the the Bush Administration struck with Israel 2004. Glenn Kessler and Howard Schneider write that…
I walked around Cairo yesterday jetlagged and overwhelmed by cultural difference. The plane takes nearly twice as long to get here as it does to England. We’re hundreds of miles east of Istanbul, and it sure feels like the orient….
A Mondo reader has alerted us to this appalling use of “jewish values” to promote war mongering with Iran. From the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s call to Help End the Iranian Threat: Ask Congress to Allow States to…
Jonathan Cook reports on the UN Committee Against Torture’s efforts to uncover details about Israel’s infamous “Facility 1391.” From Cook’s article in the National “UN torture watchdog demands access to secret jail”: According to the testimonies of the Palestinian cousins,…