Yesterday’s great report on this site from East Jerusalem contained a shrewd statement about the power of the Israel lobby. Antony Loewenstein was interviewing Yehiel Grenimann of Rabbis for Human Rights outside the protest of the seizure of a Palestinian…
We’ve been following the news today that Israel has rejected the Obama’s administration’s demand to halt settlement expansion in East Jerusalem. Although this disagreement is taking place behind closed doors here in the US, in Israel/Palestine it is unfolding in…
Ira Glunts writes: The public disagreement between Israel and the U.S. over continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem has heated up considerably today. At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected the Obama…
Yesterday I passed along a report that New York Times Jerusalem correspondent Ethan Bronner’s son is in the IDF. Antony Loewenstein tells me he spoke to Bronner the other day and Bronner said this was inaccurate. Apologies to Ethan Bronner.
This is important. Gosh I wish I had the power to prick this balloon… Yesterday on her blog, Helena Cobban noted that David Makovsky, Israel lobbyist par excellence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and co-author of a…
Susie Kneedler, who lives in Ohio, writes: Have you been following the news of Netanyahu and Michael Oren’s gall in claiming the right to build in East Jerusalem? We need to “make” Pres. Obama stop the Billions for the IDF,…
Mairav Zonszein, Antony Loewenstein and Joseph Dana write: The occupation can seem predictably mundane from a distance. To most Israelis the settlement project is seen as a problem, but a problem happening “over there” and utterly removed from their lives….
Uri Avnery on the Breaking the Silence testimonies from Gaza: The generals went automatically into denial mode. Why don’t the soldiers disclose their identity, they asked innocently. Why do they obscure their faces in the video testimonies? Why do they…
And all must love the human form, In heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. William Blake, “The Divine Image” 1789 The Heart of Jenin, which appeared on PBS ten days ago,…