Israeli anxiety over the Obama administration actually being serious about settlement growth seems to getting worked into a full blown lather. Ha’aretz is following the frenzy closely and reports on a meeting between George Mitchell and Israeli officials in London…
Max Blumenthal reporting for Mondoweiss from Israel and the occupied territories: TEL AVIV–Violence erupted in the Palestinian town of Safa today as fanatical masked settlers from the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin set upon a group of activists from the…
Bruce Wolman writes: President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority came to Washington yesterday to meet President Obama. As a warm-up for his big event at the White House, he sat down for an interview with the two editors of…
Yesterday, the well respected Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill ran an article entitled “Before Obama-Abbas meeting, members chime in.” The article, written by online editor Bridget Johnson, offered a state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict inside the beltway leading up to…
Back in January, in the wake of the carnage in Gaza, we posted a video featuring Ali Abunimah, Mark Green, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, where Abunimah challenged progressives to speak out more on Israel/Palestine. Green was defensive (and offensive) whereas…
One takeaway message from the Obama-Abbas meeting is that the realists are getting heard in the Obama administration. Much has been made of Hillary Clinton’s recent hardball approach with Israel regarding settlements. On Wednesday she told reporters that the administration…
First there was the Nakba law, then the loyalty oath, now the Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would institute a one year jail sentence for anyone who speaks “against Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state.” According…
This morning Joseph Dana (aka Ibn Ezra) sent us the following email: This morning the army dismantled parts of hilltop 26 (18), the place that we wrote the article about. Check out the news here (editor note: you can read…
The Obama administration is putting Israeli settlements front and center and Israeli politicians are doing their best to spin the issue. Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely has held her conference opposing the two-state solution where Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued…