Yesterday this site slagged Mortimer Zuckerman (and got his name wrong, as Morton; sorry Mort!) for his deceptive suggestion on Huffington Post that the West Bank is part of Israel. Recently the Washington Post made the same error in an…
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai responding to George Mitchell’s current visit to Israel: The preferable course of diplomatic action at this time is two economies for two peoples and not two states for two peoples. The American emissary also knows…
Middle East envoy George Mitchell is returning to Israel this week for the first time since the election of the Netanyahu/Lieberman government. Ynet is reporting the the goal of the trip is for Mitchell to figure out if the Obama…
Ruth Hiller from the Israeli organization New Profile sent along this important petition. As this site has reported multiple times, there is an ongoing effort to push Palestinians out of the city of Jaffa and growing political repression against the…
Everyone talks about putting pressure on Israel. What does that mean? Here’s a sage post by Steve Walt on what Obama should do in the face of Israeli intransigence re the two-state solution. Besides ending tax-deductible contributions to the settler…
Jim Harb writes: Phil, the United Nations did not create Israel. I’ve noticed that you mention this from time to time, but it’s simply, historically, and factually inaccurate. This is not only a misstatement of historical fact, it is an…
The Times picks up Obama’s pointed reference to “Annapolis” in his Turkey speech, and says it was a direct rebuttal to Avigdor Lieberman’s prevarications about the two state solution. Writes Jeff Blankfort: The press is building up the battle to…
Bruce Wolman writes: This Haaretz author (Tzvia Greenfield) is not very enthralled with the “universalist left”– On the other side stands the universalist left, which is uncomfortable with the Jewish identity of the Israeli state. Too many in that camp…
Ha’aretz is reporting that the Obama administration is taking an “unprecedented move” by preparing Democratic congressional leaders for the upcoming clash with the Netanyahu government over establishing a Palestinian state. As Obama’s recent trip to Turkey has shown he views…