The Israeli government’s move to clear the building permit and zoning requirements for the US State Department’s construction on a new embassy in Jerusalem highlights what happens to Palestinians when they seek to build in the occupied city: their houses are demolished. Building permits are “unobtainable” to them, human rights groups say.

David Halbfinger does his job for the New York Times by reporting Palestinian leaders’ discussion of a one-state outcome, and Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations and Nick Kristof of the New York Times jump in to suppress the report by saying one state is not in Israel’s interests, thereby denying the 70 years of erasure and discrimination Zionism has meant for Palestinians.

If you are going to make a list of crazy UN speeches, you really have to twist yourself into a pretzel not to mention Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC does the pretzel: she overlooks Netanyahu’s cartoon bomb and 44 seconds of silence, then cites Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, wearing a gun to the General Assembly in 1974.

Miki Zohar, member of Israeli Knesset in Netanyahu’s Likud Party, says two-state solution is dead, and under one-state solution, Palestinians can be Israeli citizens, but they won’t be able to vote.

Racism gets a platform at the New York Times. The paper runs a hideous op-ed by an Israeli settler suggesting Palestinians leave Greater Israel.

In a wide-ranging interview, Norman Finkelstein says the Palestinians are, at this moment, a defeated people, they should recall the success of the first intifada, and “I used to live for my teaching” but has not had a job in ten years.

NY Times article claims that a Palestinian basketball player is the only one of “Arab heritage” in Israeli league. But there are many, many Jewish basketball players with Arab heritage; and the Times is parroting Zionist dogma about nationality in making this claim.

Temple Israel of Great Neck, L.I., hands out a flyer celebrating Israeli soldiers’ massacre in Gaza at Rosh Hashana services, conflating Judaism and militant Zionism

Mondoweiss talks with Rep. Steve Israel, the former head of the DCCC and one of the State of Israel’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill about Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and how pissed exactly President Obama is with him for repeatedly stabbing him in the back.

Two days ago Israel’s foreign minister called for beheading Arab citizens of Israel who are “against us.” As of this morning the New York Times had still not covered the story, and neither has National Public Radio, which has given Lieberman a platform in the past. What would happen if a Palestinian politician called for beheading some Jews? How loudly would our media decry such statements?