Ynet says a member of the KKK who was on the lam from the States was arrested in Israel after taking up residence in Tel Aviv last year. US national Micky Louis Mayon, one of the FBI’s 100 most wanted…
This is a video of Medea Benjamin at the border in Gaza last month, talking about Hamas and about women’s rights in Palestine. I showed my wife and her friend this video and asked them their impression. “Sincere,” was the…
(Settlers are shown a court order by the IDF on Hilltop 26. Photo by: Laura Weisman) Antony Loewenstein writes: Dining at a hamburger joint on the weekend in Jerusalem with a few members of Israeli peace group Ta’ayush,including Joseph Dana,…
Notes a wise friend: Good analysis by the superb Akiva Eldar, who wonders, Why is Obama talking to Netanyahu rather than Abbas about exceptions to the settlement freeze? (Query whether Obama sees Netanyahu as holding in this crisis a position…
Last winter at the 92d Street Y, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street complained that he had never been invited to a Federation meeting, the Jewish Establishment, and when he did get invited to a meeting of the Jewish Council for…
My friend JK writes: Have you seen today’s Washington Post story about the purported “huge embassy” Iran is building in Nicaragua? The only problem: there is no monster Iranian embassy in Managua. But that didn’t stop Secretary of State Hillary…
Conn Hallinan at Counterpunch says that Obama’s voters have his back if he really wants to get tough on “settlements.” does he have the political backing to make it stick? On the last point, the answer would seem to be…
A member of Knesset is now demanding that the Israeli cell phone company pull the disgusting McCann/Erickson ad that uses the wall as a ha-ha prop. Thanks to Rob Browne.
Amazing video, apparently smuggled out of you-know-where, captures the mood of the “Spirit of Humanity” as it grinds from Cyprus toward Gaza and is intercepted by several Israeli ships nearly two weeks ago. Note the warnings in English that the…