In this interview with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky points out that a great contribution of Jimmy Carter’s “bitterly-condemned” book was to publish Israel’s many exceptions to the Road Map, including no stop to settlement construction and so forth. Also that…
Last week we picked up Haaretz reports of a “secret deal” between Netanyahu and Lieberman to continue construction of a colony east of Jerusalem, known as E-1, that would all but bisect the West Bank. The Times of London has…
Yesterday we noted a murderous incident, Palestinian against settler, in the occupied West Bank. Well there’s a back story worthy of Dickens. From the JPost: Yair Gamliel, the seven-year-old boy whose skull was fractured by an ax-wielding terrorist in the…
This is how screwed up American Jewish leadership is. Democratic congresswoman Shelley Berkley says she calls Mort Klein of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) before she decides how to vote on bills about the Middle East. Well: Here is…
Susie Kneedler writes: NPR has never mentioned Tristan Anderson that I know of. A search of its website yields nothing, but today on “Morning Edition” has already announced the “axe-wielding” militant’s killing of the Israeli settler in the West Bank….
Jim Sleeper at TPM doesn’t like what I wrote earlier about Looking for Gandhi in Palestine: The blogger Phil Weiss, for example, has barricaded himself into an intellectual Masada that leaves no option I can find short of massive dispossession…
Surprise. The new Foreign Minister of Israel, one Avigdor Lieberman, has come out against the peace talks with the Palestinians conducted by his predecessor, Tzipi Livni, and said that any concessions to the Palestinians mean war. As for the lobby,…
Al Arabiya picks up this report from Haaretz, that Israeli soldiers dressed up as Palestinians to investigate a settler outpost– and were set upon by angry settlers. Six settlers were then arrested. None of them is now imprisoned. That’s the…
A lot of hasbara and “softening” in this Netanyahu piece in the LA Times– two Israel lobbyists quoted, David Makovsky and someone from the American Jewish Committee. Where’s Brian Baird, or John Mearsheimer? While in Israel, the left shouts, It’s…