A few week ago we posted about ten billboards going up around Albuquerque, NM calling for congress to cut off aid to Israel. They were put up by The Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious coalition…
Michael J. Jordan has a great article over at the JTA talking about the contortions people are going through to avoid stating the obvious: Jewish and pro-Israel groups worked to undermine the Durban II conference. Although “it’s no secret who…
Norman H. Olsen, a former senior United States Foreign Service officer who served in the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, writing in the Christian Science Monitor:[Netanyahu’s] policies may be misguided, but his intellectual honesty may prove salutary. The Israeli right…
Writing on Time.com, Tim McKirk has a touching story about three Palestinian sisters – Jinan age 6, Dania age 4 and Noor age 2 – taking a trip to visit their father in an Israeli prison. Their father, Ali, has…
From Cohen’s new article “Clinton’s Mideast Pirouette:” I hear that Clinton was shocked by what she saw on her visit last month to the West Bank. This is not surprising. The transition from Israel’s first-world hustle-bustle to the donkeys, carts…
Journalist Noam Sheizaf writes for the daily Israeli newspaper Maariv and has a blog called Promised Land. His most recent post is a useful response to anyone who thinks that things in Israel/Palestine would be different “if only the Palestinians…
It seems like a version of this article comes out every six weeks or so. From the Reuters article “Israel strives to re-brand image”: Since its founding in 1948, Israel has placed a special emphasis on “Hasbara” a Hebrew word…
Not much to add to these two useful articles. First, from Are the Palestinians getting a hearing at the UN racism conference? on Reuters Global News blog: Although the U.N.’s racism conference in Geneva has been dominated by Middle East…
From CQ Politics: House Select Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes has told the panel’s staff to begin investigating an incident in which Rep. Jane Harman was recorded on a wiretap talking with a suspected Israeli agent . . . “In the…