A “formidable machine” that works for Israel inside US politics keeps the U.S. from being an honest broker on the Palestinian issue; but that issue is a “very, very big” factor in the unrest in the Middle East, says Lakhdar Brahimi, lately the UN negotiator in the Syrian civil war.
Glenn Greenwald’s latest revelation, that three former Treasury officials are involved in a neoconservative Zionist lobbying outfit, combined with David Brooks’s apparent belief that he’s an Israeli parent, shows how commingled the Israel interest is in our political culture, the type of sinister influence Lincoln and Burke both warned their democracies against
Violence / Raids / Clashes / Dispersal of protests / Illegal arrests — Jerusalem /…
From the New York Times August 19th, just brought to my attention, an article on…
It’s one country between the river and the sea and Israel’s religious state idea is out of step with the rest of the world, Patricia Marks Greenfield says in the Washington Post, echoing an argument put forward by Ali Abunimah and Tony Judt a long time ago
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution to end Israel’s occupation of the June 1967 territories, by ordering the immediate resumption of negotiations with a set time limit to demarcate the boundaries of a Palestinian state. He has put on hold the Palestinian accession to the International Criminal Court.
88 Senators warn Palestinians against taking unilateral actions against Israel at the UN. But Warren and Sanders don’t sign on for once, joining a refuser caucus that includes Tammy Baldwin, Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski
Netanyahu has boundary issues. Jews “always unite” to face challenges to “our country,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, utterly conflating world Jewry with the state of Israel
More fallout from Megan Marzec’s dramatic call for Ohio University to divest. State treasurer Josh Mandel says that Ohio is fully invested in Israel, which is “our friend, ally and beacon of American values.”
From Inside Higher Ed: Steve Cicala, an assistant professor of economics at the University of…