When will American Christians get more engaged by the occupation? Here is a great piece from Reuters on a new Israeli road in the occupied territories that encircles a small Christian community that is too darn close to the Israeli…
This photo (by Mamoun Wazwaz, for the Maan News agency) depicts Palestinian leader Mustafa Bargouti at a graveyard in Hebron, where several Palestinian gravestones were desecrated by settlers. The accompanying article describes more settler violence in Hebron: an ambulance stoned…
Earlier this week the Washington Post continued the plague of the neoconservatives by running a piece by Elliott Abrams in favor of the Israeli colonies, and including this ugly statement: Settlement activity is not diminishing the territory of a future…
When I was in college, the social history of slavery began to appear. Scholars were writing about the world that the slaves made. Even in chains, they had music, story and custom that was different from the whites, and it…
Amir Oren in Haaretz says that Obama has accepted Israel’s view of the global danger of a nuclear Iran and may countenance an Israeli attack– and meanwhile won’t take any bull on settlements. Bruce Wolman writes: Wishful thinking by Oren,…
From the Jewish Week’s story: “Bibi’s Allies on the Hill are Gearing Up to Blunt Obama Moves”, which typically lays the power of the Israel lobby off on to Christians, but concludes: “Anybody who believes this administration will focus on…
Ira Glunts reports: This weekend the Israeli daily, Ma’ariv, published an interview in Hebrew with Professor Ben Zion Netanyahu, the 99-year-old father of the new Israeli prime minister. The elder Netanyahu is known for his outspokenness and extreme right-wing views–and…
Last night I went to hear Rashid Khalidi speak at the Brooklyn Reform synagogue, Beth Elohim. A gorgeous temple, and before giving Khalidi the microphone at the altar, Rabbi Andy Bachman went down the list of groups that had sponsored…
Where is Secretary of State Clinton? 150 armed settlers are reported to have attacked Palestinians in several Hebron neighborhoods and nearby villages yesterday, crying “Death to Arabs!” The scene, as Benny Morris reminds us in his new book, and as…