It’s a boom time for settlements, and Palestinian prisoners threaten hunger strike By Kate February 6, 2011 0 and other news from Today in Palestine:
‘We yearn for a democratic Middle East’ — until we don’t, that is! By Philip Weiss February 6, 2011 36 Another Israeli is agonized by the democracy movement in Egypt. Donniel Hartman at first tries…
Searching for Egyptian unity in Ramallah By Linah Alsaafin February 6, 2011 4 The last few days of the solid millions of protesting Egyptians got me thinking how…
Israel’s Egyptian teachers By Shmuel Sermoneta-Gertel February 6, 2011 106 Recent events in Egypt have already provided Israelis with a number of invaluable lessons. The…
A proposal to integrate the opposition into the heart of the state By Philip Weiss February 6, 2011 17 As a foreigner who has absolute starry-eyed confidence in the youth committee that is at…
The existential threat to Israel is… democracy By Philip Weiss February 6, 2011 25 Adam Shatz in LRB rightly anatomizes Israel’s role in the counter-revolution, sees the geological shift…
Avnery says underlying cause of Egypt is… Palestine By Philip Weiss February 6, 2011 22 The ad below the excerpt is from Gush Shalom in Haaretz. And Uri Avnery gets…
If the ‘NYRB’ wills it, it is not a dream By Annie Robbins February 6, 2011 13 David Shulman reviewing both Sari Nusseibeh’s What Is a Palestinian State Worth and Occupation of…
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon em, and some have none of the above By Philip Weiss February 6, 2011 14 Robert Dreyfuss at the Nation has picked up Sarah Palin’s first comments on Egypt: And…