Netanyahu senior aide Ron Dermer on the plane from Washington DC to Tel Aviv: “This idea of two states for two peoples is a stupid and childish solution to a very complex problem.” Another top Netanyahu advisor referred to the…
On Tuesday, Benjamin Netanuyahu left his ambiguous meeting with President Obama behind him for greener pastures – the US Congress. There has already been speculation that Netanyahu is planning on using the Congress to block any challenge from the Obama…
Lots more to come on the Obama/Netanyahu meeting. Here is a transcript, here is a video, now for some more initial impressions. One moment that stood out was Netanyau’s answer to the direct question whether he supports the two-state solution….
Reuters has a good article today on what should have been obvious to Ethan Bronner – it is the Israeli occupation that is running Palestinian Christians out of the West Bank. From the article “Israeli barrier bites into Palestinian village”:…
This site has talked about how informal social pressure works to enforce consensus on Israel within the Jewish community. The following piece shows how this currently works in Israel, which is beginning to look like a police state to Jews…
We’re only hours from the Obama-Netanyahu meeting and the advice is coming fast and furious. The New York Times is all over the place today with commentary from Ali Abunimah, Chas Freeman, Daniel Levy and Jeffrey Goldberg. The discourse is…
The following exclusive on an international report concluding that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories “has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid” was sent to us by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: “The…
The following is from David Hosey’s blog City of… [This] photo was taken by my Sabeel coworker Lydia on a trip we took last fall to what is today northern Israel–northern Palestine in 1948. We were visited villages that were…
Today Palestinians across the Middle East, including inside Israel, commemorated al Nakba. Arabic for “the catastrophe”, al Nakba refers to the ongoing displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people that began in 1948 with the founding of the state of…