While the world looks elsewhere, Israel continues its methodical assault on the West Bank. The video above was shot yesterday in the Palestinian village Wadi Rasha. The village is located north of Jerusalem and caught in the area between the…
Jeffrey Blankfort and Jack Ross have responded to Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent calling for the defeat of the colonization movement in the West Bank in order to save the two-state solution. Blankfort: I have a different take on Walzer….
Michael Walzer is a hugely-influential voice in the Jewish community. He can bring a lot of the New Republic crowd and the liberal interventionists and even leftleaning intellectuals along with him wherever he goes. Well, here is an important new…
Israeli home demolitions in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have finally been getting increased attention in the US press. The map to the right (click to enlarge), from the Foundation for Middle East Peace, shows the strategic importance of the…
Why is accused spy Steve Rosen leading the charge against Chas Freeman, Obama’s pick for the National Intelligence Council? Here’s a great piece in the New Jersey Jewish News yesterday by Douglas Bloomfield, a former AIPAC staffer, on what’s at…
Steve Rosen, the former AIPAC operative who is charged with being a spy for Israel, is pressuring the Israel Policy Forum to get rid of its policy analyst MJ Rosenberg because Rosenberg is standing up for a good man, Chas…
Ron Kampeas at the JTA thinks so. Kerry is back in DC after seeing the devastation in Gaza first hand. Now he’s talking about it and preparing policy recommendations for Obama. Kampeas refers to Kerry as “a stalking horse” in…
Yesterday I had an exchange with a good friend who said that he has friends living in Israel and while it might be the fairest way to go to have a one-state solution, it would involve great bloodshed. Steve Walt…
Jeff Blankfort got this map sent to him by the Jewish Week, as a form of email advertising for Chabad in New York. Blankfort writes: Like many other maps I have seen over the years issued by Jewish organizations, secular…