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…
David Bromwich comments on Michael Walzer’s piece in Dissent on the two-state solution: What must be done on both sides has been clear for a long time. Many Israeli commentators–among them Uri Avnery–have been saying it. Palestinians (both Fatah and…
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…
Paul Woodward at War in Context has a good rundown of all the Chas Freeman attacks and of Freeman’s defenders too. It is a great battle–a test of the power of the Israel lobby. The Saudi Arabia money is a…
A shocking story. 1. Emily McNeill graduates from Ithaca College last year and visits the West Bank with a Christian Peacemaker team. She writes a fine, earnest piece for the college’s official magazine about Israeli settler violence against Palestinians. Unchecked…
Something great reported by Haaretz and now JSF: the British Embassy has changed its plans, and will not rent space in a Tel Aviv building partly-owned by Lev Leviev, the diamond merchant who has financed colonies in the West Bank….
George Mitchell should really travel to the Middle East more often. Every time he lands in Israel/Palestine there seems to be a blockbuster leak regarding the settlements. Akiva Eldar is reporting in today’s Ha’aretz that the Israeli civil administration in…
Paul Berman’s comments on Z-word about Israel/Palestine are so troubling that I need to visit them again. You know me, I’m like a dog with a bone. Well this is what he says about the occupation: I know that a…
Ira Glunts sent along an open letter he wrote to Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations of Americans for Peace Now. Glunts wrote the letter in response to that group’s “action alert” praising the pro-Israel Rep. Gary Ackerman….