‘NYT’ finally describes the power of the Israel lobby in an editorial, saying that it may have cost George H.W. Bush his job after he opposed Israeli settlements. Next they’ll tell us that the lobby helped start the Iraq war.
Israel is “proud” of being “called weird,” but it is also a “normal country living in an abnormal neighborhood” — the baffling and widely-mocked video that Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy minister for diplomacy, put out for the New Yea
Israel has begun to deport an all-female crew of sailors with the first two women returning to London hours ago after Israeli commandoes seized the Women’s Boat to Gaza, an activist ship skimming towards the Strip’s maritime borders yesterday.
When AIPAC came “begging” for Bill Clinton to speak at 2010 conference, he and his wife were against his doing so, and her aide expressed annoyance at the invitation; though then Secretary of State Clinton did address the pro-Israel group, and gushed over its leaders.
A Spanish High Court of the Asturias region upheld a decision last week declaring a Langreo City Council agreement to boycott Israel illegal. And last month the UK government’s Department for Communities and Local Government published guidance for local authorities stating that “using pension policies to pursue boycott, divestment and sanctions against foreign nations and UK defence industries are inappropriate”.
Israel has seemingly altered its reaction policy to rockets from Gaza; it now responds with immediate, massive seismic missiles aimed at Hamas-affiliated targets though it is known that Hamas was not involved in the most recent attacks. It did so again today, striking targets in Gaza in retaliation for a rocket fired at an Israeli community.
“Deeply troubling… disheartening” and a contradiction of Israel’s vows not to extend a “perpetual occupation”– the latest State Department statement condemning a new Israeli settlement is its strongest language yet.
An all-women crew sailing toward the shores of occupied Gaza were taken into Israeli naval custody this afternoon, ending their month-long sea voyage to “break the siege on Gaza.” The Israeli military said the vessel was still in international waters at the time of the “uneventful” interception, around 35-nautical miles from the Israeli port of Ashdod.
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Pro-Israel activists at a NY synagogue say that 10 percent of Americans love Israel, another 10 percent don’t, and the 80 percent in the middle can be reached via progressive messaging aimed at stopping BDS. But the Jewish participation in the ’60s civil rights movement is not going to thrill young people today.