Uri Avnery on Netanyahu’s forthcoming speech, “his resounding response to Obama’s speech in Egypt.” Everything has been done to put the two events on the same level. Obama spoke at Cairo University? Netanyahu will speak at Bar-Ilan University, the religious…
CBS News is reporting that Israeli officials were “insulted” by the photo to the right. In it, Obama is talking with Benjamin Netanyahu on the phone, with his feet up on his desk. As much as Israel prides itself for…
Jasmin Ramsey at Pulse: I sat down with a group of Jewish Canadians who were conversing about Israel’s current government. They agreed that while there are not many significant differences between the actions of parties like Kadima and Likud when…
Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from Jerusalem: On Wednesday, June 3, I went to the Knesset to speak to two of the deliberative body’s most ideologically opposed members. First, I spoke to Alex Miller, a backbencher in Avigdor Lieberman’s incipient…
Max Blumenthal’s latest video has created much controversy and debate that we’ll try to cover here on the site. F.E.Felson sent us one response: Not surprisingly, the skeptical response to Max Blumenthal’s latest video has been one of casual dismissal:…
Important piece in Foreign Policy on the desecularization of Israel. In 1960, Palestinian Arabs and Orthodox Jews made up a combined 15 percent of the country’s primary students. Today the number is 46 percent and by 202o it will be…
As if the Israeli settler movement couldn’t alienate themselves any further from US popular opinion, they are now kicking off a campaign against “the most anti-Semitic American president” Barack Obama. The Ha’aretz article reporting on the effort shares some pretty…
By Max Blumenthal The Israeli government has repeatedly announced plans to forge ahead with plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in direct opposition to President Barack Obama’s demand for an absolute settlement freeze. On May 27, Secretary…
On Monday George Mitchell met with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in New York to continue the ongoing US-Israeli discussion on settlements. Ha’aretz reported on an interesting moment from the meeting in their article “Obama: U.S. will be ‘honest’ with…