Ira Glunts reports: This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his outspokenness and extreme right-wing views–and…
The great Uri Avnery has a new column saying that it’s Lieberman’s government; he has the key bloc. And the only upside is that in opposition, Tzipi Livni may at last be forced to embrace a real road to peace,…
In this interview with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky points out that a great contribution of Jimmy Carter’s “bitterly-condemned” book was to publish Israel’s many exceptions to the Road Map, including no stop to settlement construction and so forth. Also that…
The AP from Jerusalem: two versions of the official Netanyahu cabinet photo were released. One is photoshopped to remove the two women in the cabinet, to placate the Orthodox objections to photographing women.
Last week we picked up Haaretz reports of a “secret deal” between Netanyahu and Lieberman to continue construction of a colony east of Jerusalem, known as E-1, that would all but bisect the West Bank. The Times of London has…
“For me, the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these, grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns. On a bus tour across the Galilee,…
Yesterday I said Obama will treat Avigdor Lieberman like a non-person. In my dreams. Hillary Clinton had a phone call with Avigdor Lieberman yesterday, congratulating him on his new job, Foreign Minister. Can you imagine any American official phoning up…
Here’s Abraham Foxman’s worldview: Israeli efforts to offer concessions to achieve peace have produced more extremism and violence on the other side. Is that what you want, America? Permanent war?
For the racism/Orientalism file. Daniel Pipes says that Avigdor Lieberman’s speech left him “elated.” It said, “Israel is back.” And this guy has standing? Yes. I saw him at a jammed Philadelphia synagogue that would never invited the great Noam…