Bernie Sanders could make political hay by pointing out the many occasions Hillary Clinton has criticized Obama foreign policy, on ground forces in Syria, on her bellicose comments about Iran, and in her embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu. He could articulate a populist foreign policy. But he’s been reluctant to do so so far.
Two horrible videos emerged from Hebron over this past deadly weekend. In one, after a 14-year-old girl was gunned down in the street, an ambulance waits right next to her as she bleeds and writhe on the ground, but soldiers prevent her from being moved. In the other video, a soldier is recorded callously pushing over a disabled Palestinian man in a wheelchair.
Recent endorsements of Hillary Clinton by Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem brought into focus a long-standing division between powerful, privileged white women’s feminism and intersectional feminism, with its focus on the necessity of analyzing overlapping and intersecting systems of oppression. Nada Elia writes that Palestine stands at the fault line between these two understandings: “Global feminist solidarity is necessarily an anti-colonial, intersectional practice, rather than a diamond-bejeweled white fist raised towards a glass ceiling which prevents privileged women from achieving the presidency of the world’s largest hypermilitarized imperial power.”
By reminding Israelis of the little horrors of the occupation, from child detentions to home demolitions, kibbutznik Amos Gvirtz is determined to prove to his society that they cannot claim later, We did not know! But this moral education stops at the idea of one state with equal rights.
Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening while exchanging fire with Israeli soldiers and police officers near the light-rail station in the Bab al-‘Amoud area in occupied Jerusalem. Their deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed on Sunday to five. Kilzar al-Uweiwi, 18, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Hebron on Saturday after stabbing an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian bystander near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Matthew Vickey reports from the West Bank village of Duma where 15-year-old Baraa Dawabsha tells him, “We don’t feel protected at all. The settlers have tried more than once to get into the village again after the attack. They even gathered near to here and Nablus, and were chanting in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, screaming at people ‘Dawabsha number two,’ threatening they will do it again.”
“Palestinians are divided into ID categories and limited in where they can live and travel, and by extension, limited in whom they can love,” the Institute for Middle East Understanding says in an infographic released on Valentine’s Day
After Robert Cohen put up Facebook posts critical of Israel, including a letter to Anne Frank, he was besieged by angry comments. Like: “Most groups have an extremist self loathing fringe…” He responded with poetry, “Other ways of being Jewish are available.”
In 2009, Mike Allen of Politico held an unseemly “secret contest” with White House and State Deparment officials to name the foreign policy column at the publication. Three of those officials have gone on to form a consulting group that sells neoconservative-lite ideas about US policy
Israeli forces shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian during clashes in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron’s al-‘Arrub refugee camp on Tuesday. Doctors at a hospital in Hebron identified the boy as Omar Yousef Madi al-Jawabreh