The belief that the US and Israel share common values seems to be unraveling in the wake of Avigdor Lieberman’s success in the recent Israeli elections. Two days after former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer admitted it would be…
The coalition building fracas continues in Israel with the Likud and Kadima fighting over who can bring Avigdor Lieberman into their coalition. Lieberman has put forth several demands including creating a citizenship bill that requires loyalty as a condition for…
Daphna Baram has a great article on the Guardian website today – “It’s time to rethink Zionism.” Similar to the recent LA Times editorial questioning Israeli democracy, Baram starts out by stating the obvious: The results of last week’s parliamentary…
In Haaretz. I guess this is real progress since 1948… He was talking to the rightwing Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. What will Obama do?
Tzipi Livni just said that Israel must give up “half of the land of Israel.” Good for her; and why are you expanding settlements? But she says that Israel must control the planning re two states. “Any plan put on…
The rise of Avigdor Lieberman is raising fundamental questions about Israel and Zionism in the US media that have long been ignored. While Israel expansionism in the occupied Palestinian territories has been justified over the years as a “security issue”…
It is hard to imagine that after all the coverage of Gaza you could go into an event in New York and walk out stunned, but such was my experience hearing Mustafa Barghouti this afternoon at Columbia University. The Palestinian…
[Photo by AnomalousNYC from a demonstration in Union Square in New York in July 2006 during the Lebanon war that the Israeli “left,” Meretz and Labor, supported] Today’s Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Lincoln’s achievement was chiefly political: he took a…
Tonight at Harvard they had a panel on the “road to peace after Gaza,” with former State Department official Nicholas Burns, who described the Israeli elections as a “hung election,” moderating between Shai Feldman and Rashid Khalidi. Khalidi said there…