And all must love the human form, In heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love & Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. William Blake, “The Divine Image” 1789 The Heart of Jenin, which appeared on PBS ten days ago,…
To fully understand the report from the West Bank above, consider what Helena Cobban reported from Washington today, from an Israeli lawyer, Michael Sfard (speaking at the New America Foundation and co-sponsored by Americans for Peace Now), saying that there’s…
I have a bit of a different take than Phil on Ehud Olmert’s oped in today’s Washington Post. I don’t see hints at the one state solution, but I do see Olmert trying the resuscitate one of the all-time great…
Update: Max Blumenthal crossed posted this video and story on The Huffington Post. Even though HuffPo promoted it this morning over their Twitter feed, it has been taken down without explanation. We’ll post more as we get the details. Max…
Rob Browne writes: The Bibi and Blair show, which was featured [credulously] by PBS’s NOW show last week, resumed today in Haaretz, discussing ways to improve one side of the Palestinian economy. Netanyahu has the nerve to tell Blair that…
(Settlers are shown a court order by the IDF on Hilltop 26. Photo by: Laura Weisman) Antony Loewenstein writes: Dining at a hamburger joint on the weekend in Jerusalem with a few members of Israeli peace group Ta’ayush,including Joseph Dana,…
Conn Hallinan at Counterpunch says that Obama’s voters have his back if he really wants to get tough on “settlements.” does he have the political backing to make it stick? On the last point, the answer would seem to be…
Yesterday we gave Newsweek a wet kiss for publishing the Israel Project’s sickmaking recommendations on how to sell settlements to the American public–the idea that removing them is “ethnic cleansing.” Well I’m having weird feelings the morning after, cause here’s…
Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an advertisement mentioning service to a number of…