Today Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street, has an article in the Huffington Post that could have been ripped from the pages of Mondoweiss. In his post “Avigdor Lieberman’s Makeover Won’t Work” Ben-Ami addresses the wedge that Avigdor Lieberman…
Reem Salahi writes in Electronic Intifada about what she saw and heard in Gaza on a recent National Lawyers Guild delegation: But let us play the devil’s advocate and agree that the majority of Israel’s attacks were completely reactionary and…
Hillary Clinton just landed in Israel and the Israeli press is already pessimistic about what she’ll think about the state of Israeli politics. From the YNet article “Official: Rightist government may hurt US-Israel relations”: “Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s views on…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s possible coalition partners say the darnedest things. Although Avigdor Lieberman is getting most of the attention, there are other parties being courted that have equally disturbing things to say. In response to Peace Now revealing that the Israeli…
(Photo: Reem Salahi from the National Lawyer’s Guild delegation to Gaza, February 2009) One of the headlines coming out of the Gaza donors conference currently being held in Egypt is the US’s pledge of $900 million for the Palestinians. What…
From “Why isn’t Netanyahu backing two-state solution?” in Ha’aretz: Netanyahu believes Israel must insist on retaining 50 percent of the West Bank – the open areas in the Jordan Valley and the Judean Desert that are vital as a security…
And the Hasbara rejoinder: Also watch Elliot Mathias, the director of the Hasbara Fellowships, prepare students to combat Israel Apartheid week here.
George Mitchell should really travel to the Middle East more often. Every time he lands in Israel/Palestine there seems to be a blockbuster leak regarding the settlements. Akiva Eldar is reporting in today’s Ha’aretz that the Israeli civil administration in…
Roger Cohen’s recent editorial in the New York Times about Iranian Jews continues to reverberate. Below is a reflection by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb (pictured below). Rabbi Gottlieb led a delegation to Iran last April and visited again in December. A…