By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net – On the face of it that’s a silly question and the speculation it represents – that Palestinian “President” Abbas could replaced by an Israeli agent or asset – is not worthy of discussion. But before dismissing it readers might do what I did and consider two things. The first is […]
The annexation of Crimea may be problematic, but it is less problematic than the occupation of the Palestinian territories by Israel. By Gideon Levy. Haaretz – Saddam Hussein has already been executed, and so has Osama bin Laden. But all is not lost for the enlightened West. There is a new devil, and his name […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is an encouraging JERUSALEM POST news report. Until now, it has been widely assumed that John Kerry had fully and irrevocably bought into Bibi Netanyahu’s “Jewish state” gambit for ensuring the failure of the current ”negotiations” while shifting the blame to Palestine. Since the Palestinian negotiating position is fully consistent with international […]
By Juan Cole. This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page. TruthDig – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, D.C., this week was even more of a disaster for him than might have been expected. It did not help that the Crimea crisis had broken out, which rather cast a bad light on one […]
By Amira Hass. Haaretz – If the order was to escalate, the takeover of the village of Bir Zeit last Thursday by the Yamam counterterrorism unit and the Nahal infantry brigade was surely a step in the right direction. Israeli forces killed Muataz Washaha, a 24-year-old activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of […]
By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net – I have long thought that Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and the Palestine Legislative Council, is the most articulate spokesperson in Israeli occupied territory for her cause. Her latest comment is a bleak assessment of the prospects for getting a real peace process going. […]
By Alison Weir. Counterpunch – If things proceed normally, President Barak Obama will soon proclaim April 11, 2014 “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” Despite the innocuous name, this day honors the memory of a religious leader whose lesser-known teachings help fuel some of the most violent attacks against Palestinians by extremist Israeli settlers and soldiers. The leader […]
Part I — Donors Give More to Israel Than to Education By Josh Nathan-Kazis. Jewish Daily Forward – The American Jewish community’s network of charity organizations is a font of Jewish power, a source of communal pride and a huge mystery. We know that the network exists. We know that its federations, social service groups and […]
By Eva Illouz. Haaretz – Open Haaretz on any given day. Half or three quarters of its news items will invariably revolve around the same two topics: people struggling to protect the good name of Israel, and people struggling against its violence and injustices. An almost random example: On December 17, 2013, one could read, […]
Redress Online – Brace yourselves: Ukraine could end up with an Israeli president. The Israeli news website Ynet reports that Vadim Rabinovich, a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch who holds an Israeli passport and has lived in the apartheid state of Israel, has announced that he will run for Ukrainian president. He is one of four people to announce their […]
