Yesterday’s Jerusalem Post ran an important piece by Samuel Freedman on the likely end of the two-state solution and calls for democracy in Israel/Palestine. Last week at the 92d Street Y, another American Jewish journalist, Michelle Goldberg, said the same…
I disagree with just about everything Samuel Freedman, a parochialist, writes, but boy is he smart and sensitive. He knows which way the arrow’s pointing, as we say in college basketball. Writing in the Jerusalem Post: The two-state solution, to…
The New York Times covers Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s US barnstorming tour today. During a description of the mass house demolitions taking place in Palestinian neighborhoods Ethan Bronner quotes Yakir Segev, the person Barkat has put in charge of East…
Exclusive report from Mondoweiss: In a speech at a New York synagogue Wednesday night, Nadia Matar, a leader of the Israeli settlers’ group “Women in Green,” called for the assassination of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, as…
YNET is reporting that past Israeli foreign ministers do not think that incoming Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will hurt Israel’s international relations. They say relations are not based on Lieberman, but the government he is representing. Good point. Dovish former…
The JTA is reporting that Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is coming to the US to drum up support among American Jews for his plans for the city. He hopes to find Jewish “shareholders” for several special economic zones that will…
(Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers in a house in Al-Zeytoun from the recent war in Gaza. Photo: Rose Mishaan) Yesterday the LA Times ran an article by Judea Pearl entitled “Is anti-Zionism hate?” to go along side Ben Ehrenreich’s blockbuster…
Adam Horowitz, the co-editor of this site, has done a lot of speaking on Israel/Palestine and is regularly asked, “But Mr. Horowitz, tell us what you think of the two-state solution!?” Recently, for instance, he was asked this question by…
I haven’t always been the biggest fan of Uriel Heilman, but I have to say he does a great job in his JTA article “Who is Bibi trying to fool?”. Heilman presents a basic fact that the much of the…