The killing of a protester last week at Bil’in in the West Bank has apparently had this effect: Israel has come up with a new route for its wall through the village in an effort to comply with several High…
This is from the Ma’an news agency out of Palestine. And it underlines Trita Parsi’s point, and As’ad AbuKhalil’s too, that the powers of the Middle East have been playing realist footsie for a long time, notwithstanding the rhetoric. In…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Roger Cohen is walking our road. He has another fine piece in the Times today, on Jewish identity, the Holocaust/victimization, and the hateful occupation. A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until…
Parallel universe. The Zionist Organization of America is threatening to boycott Coca-Cola because it bought land in Egypt for a bottling plant that was once owned by a Jewish family, the Bigios, and that was stolen from them in 1964…
How many American publications are printing blunt statements about Avigdor Lieberman’s extremism? From Haaretz: The Netherlands must impose economic sanctions against Israel if the new government in Jerusalem thwarts the peace process with the Palestinians, the Dutch Labor party said…
The Times picks up Obama’s pointed reference to “Annapolis” in his Turkey speech, and says it was a direct rebuttal to Avigdor Lieberman’s prevarications about the two state solution. Writes Jeff Blankfort: The press is building up the battle to…
Rabbi Brant Rosen is one of the heroes of this site, for his courageous condemnation of Gaza. Today he demonstrates further intellectual leadership by examining the Jewish dismissal of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as a tool to change Israel’s policies–…
We have already spilled enough pixels on this site talking about the incoming Israeli government. Netanyahu will be the Prime Minster, Avigdor Lieberman will be Foreign Minister, and Ehud Barak has weaseled his way into remaining Defense Minister. This is…