Last night we did a post on the Israel Project’s adoption of the term “ethnic cleansing” as a talking point for American Jews in opposing the removal of settlements from the West Bank. Repulsive. Well Newsweek yesterday published the Israel…
Our West Coast correspondent Seham writes: Haaretz had this insightful piece today which describes how the Palestinian “diet” came about: Several months ago, ministry officials approached the United Nations to consult with them about their dietary plan for the Gaza…
J Street’s Isaac Luria called out the Israel Project today: Does likening the dismantling of illegal settlements in occupied territories – a policy supported by the U.S. for several administrations and enacted by the Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin governments…
A shocking interview of Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Uzi Arad, by the excellent Ari Shavit in Haaretz. The most shocking thing to me is the tone. Arad speaks in a smugly eloquent manner reminiscent of colonialists of 100 years ago,…
Joseph Dana has an interesting take on the report in Haaretz that Netanyahu has described Barack Obama’s top advisers, Jews Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, as self-hating Jews: There is a feeling among certain intellectuals and statesman in Israel that…
J Street is driving the wedge in the Jewish community, decrying a statement by the Israel Project that describes the removal of settlements from the West Bank as “ethnic cleansing.” Shocking that Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, the head of the Israel…
Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the US Army War College. He writes: Phil asked me to consider writing something about how I came to the Middle East conundrum…
The only way to read the following is in the light of a piece in Haaretz last week saying that the 11th commandment of Israeli life is Thou shalt not be a freier, and freier goes beyond its literal definition,…