At the end of the AIPAC policy conference, maybe during Joe Biden’s pandering speech, I sat biting into a napkin trying to keep from crying with a joyful sense of purpose that the conference had given me. This post is…
The Guardian says that AIPAC’s soft line on a two-state solution is putting it on a collision course with the Obama administration, which the paper says has the urgent aim of getting Palestinians a state. Here are key details of…
The big question about AIPAC in the wake of the formation of the Netanyahu government was: Israel has shifted right even as the US has shifted left; would AIPAC, which famously wants no daylight between the United States and the…
Some amazing new population numbers. First Ynet gives the “happy news:” Jews are an “overwhelming majority” in Israel. 75 percent. Not so fast, bub. You didn’t include the Occupied Territories, which Ynet charmingly describes as the Israeli empire. (And I…
Some amazing new population numbers. First Ynet gives the “happy news:” Jews are an “overwhelming majority” in Israel. 75 percent. Not so fast, bub. You didn’t include the Occupied Territories, which Ynet charmingly describes as the Israeli empire. (And I…
Hillary Clinton agrees with me. She has accepted the core lesson of the Iraq experience–and says that the U.S. must deal with one-time terrorist elements in working with a unity government the Palestinians form. The old No partner for peace…
Writing in the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah dissects two recent polls that claim to measure Palestinian attitudes towards the peace process and possible solutions to the conflict following the war in Gaza. He looks at two polls – one by…
“The mindset and basic values of Israeli Jewish society and Palestinian Muslim society are so different and mutually exclusive as to render a vision of binational statehood tenable only in the most disconnected and unrealistic of minds. The value placed…
“The mindset and basic values of Israeli Jewish society and Palestinian Muslim society are so different and mutually exclusive as to render a vision of binational statehood tenable only in the most disconnected and unrealistic of minds. The value placed…