Netanyahu says that the Iran deal is a “jackpot” for Iran, which is an existential threat. But Iran says the real existential threat are the “hooded” men ravaging “the cradle of civilization”
Col. Yisrael Shomer shot and killed a stone thrower in the West Bank. If an investigation is ever opened in the incident, it will, of course, quickly be closed.
Rightwing pro-Israel pollster Frank Luntz sounds the alarm with a survey of elite US opinion…
Michael Oren’s book Ally is driving a wedge into the Israel lobby by demanding that liberal American Jews choose between loyalty to the Jewish people (and support for an intransigent Netanyahu’s racist Israeli policies) and their own belief in social justice
55 families live in Susiya in the occupied West Bank, and Israel is poised to remove them; only a coalition of human rights groups has prevented the action. But bulldozers have been moved into the area; don’t let this take place over the perilous July 4th weekend.
Jews are being counted on for “huge sums” by the Hillary Clinton campaign, Politico reports, and that’s why she’s waffling on the Iran deal and bragging on her relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu
Ginsberg’s poem America, written nearly 60 years ago in the year of his mother’s death, still has incredible power as a critique and guarded praise of the country he thrived in, Roland Nikles writes
A year after his murder, Muhammad Abu Khdeir’s class graduated from high school with an empty seat this year for him, even as the men accused of killing him have had endless court appearances without a result. Palestinians call the trial “a sham.”
Before sunrise 17-year old Mohammed Hani al-Kasbah went to morning prayers at a mosque one block from his house in Qalandia refugee camp in Jerusalem, which is separated from the rest of the city by Israel’s security barrier. By afternoon his remains were carried into the same building for a funeral after he was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Two older brothers were also killed by Israeli forces 14 years ago.
July 2nd marked one year since the brutal murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir at the hands of three Israeli settlers. The pain of Mohammed’s brutal murder has not subsided for the Abu Khdeir family. “They burned Mohammed once, but we burn every day,” Mohammed’s father tells Dan Cohen.