One of the scariest things I heard in Gaza was when I was walking away from the tunnels with a pack of the tunnel workers, somewhat marginalized figures to begin with, but intelligent, canny, and one guy with a flashy…
A shocking interview of Netanyahu’s national security adviser, Uzi Arad, by the excellent Ari Shavit in Haaretz. The most shocking thing to me is the tone. Arad speaks in a smugly eloquent manner reminiscent of colonialists of 100 years ago,…
Joseph Dana has an interesting take on the report in Haaretz that Netanyahu has described Barack Obama’s top advisers, Jews Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, as self-hating Jews: There is a feeling among certain intellectuals and statesman in Israel that…
The only way to read the following is in the light of a piece in Haaretz last week saying that the 11th commandment of Israeli life is Thou shalt not be a freier, and freier goes beyond its literal definition,…
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing on his blog last November, when Rahm Emanuel was appointed: “Rahm, precisely because he’s a lover of Israel, will not have much patience with Israeli excuse-making. So when the next prime minister tells President Obama that as…
Any doubt that Israel under Netanyahu is off the rails? From Haaretz: Netanyahu appears to be suffering from confusion and paranoia. He is convinced that the media are after him, that his aides are leaking information against him and that…
Real journalism. A stunning report from Channel 2 in Israel on a confrontation between Peace Now activists and settlers in the West Bank. The activists are traveling into the West Bank to check the status of the “freeze” on settlements….
Ali Abunimah at EI, on Hamas’s softening, post Cairo: Another analysis of Hamas’ shift currently circulating argues that Hamas has accepted the Palestinian “consensus” position of a two-state solution on every inch of the 1967 occupied territories with removal of…