The only way to read the following is in the light of a piece in Haaretz last week saying that the 11th commandment of Israeli life is Thou shalt not be a freier, and freier goes beyond its literal definition,…
Wow, Benjamin Netanyahu is really on a roll. First, his dad spills the beans on his true intentions for the peace process, then he gets quoted calling Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod “self-hating Jews,” and now this from Reuters: Hosting…
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing on his blog last November, when Rahm Emanuel was appointed: “Rahm, precisely because he’s a lover of Israel, will not have much patience with Israeli excuse-making. So when the next prime minister tells President Obama that as…
By Joseph Dana Yesterday morning, Nefesh B’Nefesh had the first in a series of summer 2009 celebrations greeting its charter flights packed with new immigrants from North America. Nefesh B’Nefesh is a non-profit organization that encourages and facilitates Jewish immigration…
Real journalism. A stunning report from Channel 2 in Israel on a confrontation between Peace Now activists and settlers in the West Bank. The activists are traveling into the West Bank to check the status of the “freeze” on settlements….
Joseph Dana shot this video on July 4 outside Tuba, a village near a settlement called Maon in the occupied West Bank. It is a grisly scene: Palestinian shepherds are forced off their lands when Israeli soldiers show up and…
Foreign Minister Lieberman tells Haaretz that because he’s a settler, he stays out of settlement policy. Sound unbelievable? Lieberman doesn’t seem to believe it himself. “I would not want to be accused of this when I have made it a…
Rob Browne writes: Here is an Agence France Presse article about groups in the settler movement trying to increase tourism to the settlements. The logic is, visitors will form such a strong attachement to these settlers and their settlements that…
Ira Glunts writes: The flap over the settlement freeze is an indication of the difficulty the U.S. will continue to encounter in any effort to obtain Israeli cooperation with Obama’s two-state solution plans. The Netanyahu government is not interested in…