Earlier today we posted Netanyahu’s equal-opportunity-sounding talking point, that Arabs can buy property in West Jerusalem, so why can’t Jews buy in East Jerusalem? Well Lara Friedman at Peace Now blows the argument out of the water: The problem with…
A report in Haaretz on a Cabinet meeting yesterday at which Netanyahu rebuked Shin Bet security service head Yuval Diskin when he started talking about the peace process and Hamas’s shifting public stance. The piece hints at a closeted Netanyahu,…
Netanyahu’s talking points to cover the settlements going up in East Jerusalem sound like he’s been talking to the Israel Project and Frank Luntz about how to market biblical expansionism to an American audience: Netanyahu told ministers at the weekly…
We’ve been following the news today that Israel has rejected the Obama’s administration’s demand to halt settlement expansion in East Jerusalem. Although this disagreement is taking place behind closed doors here in the US, in Israel/Palestine it is unfolding in…
Ira Glunts writes: The public disagreement between Israel and the U.S. over continued settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem has heated up considerably today. At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected the Obama…
Susie Kneedler, who lives in Ohio, writes: Have you been following the news of Netanyahu and Michael Oren’s gall in claiming the right to build in East Jerusalem? We need to “make” Pres. Obama stop the Billions for the IDF,…
If you need any indication that the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is changing in the US just check out this report from ABC News – Israel at War … Over Road Signs?: Israeli Transport Ministry Accused of Plan to…
Rob Browne writes: The Bibi and Blair show, which was featured [credulously] by PBS’s NOW show last week, resumed today in Haaretz, discussing ways to improve one side of the Palestinian economy. Netanyahu has the nerve to tell Blair that…
Notes a wise friend: Good analysis by the superb Akiva Eldar, who wonders, Why is Obama talking to Netanyahu rather than Abbas about exceptions to the settlement freeze? (Query whether Obama sees Netanyahu as holding in this crisis a position…