Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
It shouldn’t need to be said. Yet to a shocking degree occupiers seem genuinely surprised that the occupied, who live under their boot, at the sharp end of their gun barrel, on the wrong side of discriminatory institutions, are not more thankful for the occupiers’ generous behavior. I mean to ask: aren’t Palestinians thankful for [...]
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This story should probably be filed in the category of institutional and individual Israeli racism toward Arabs. But the Shaya family story is so compelling on a variety of levels, including the relationship between Israeli Palestinians, the Nakba, and the neo-fascism of Foreign Minister Lieberman, that its significance rises above the more basic (but still [...]
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Israel’s government has done just about everything it can to undermine the peace negotiations it claims to want so fervently. In desperation Palestinian Authority officials have argued that in the absence of a peace partner, they should take their case directly to the UN. Other Palestinian leaders, such as the currently jailed Marwan Barghouti, have [...]
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What is Jerusalem Syndrome? Its the curious affliction that infects some visitors to Jerusalem whereby they believe themselves the sudden implementers of divine will. According to Akiva Eldar, Israel’s leaders have been infected with this debilitating illness for decades now, “affecting their ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy”. For many of those affected by [...]
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Apicture is worth a thousand words, especially if the picture includes some words… Related Posts:Anatomy of a backfired smear campaign against Judge GoldstonePalestinian ‘Gandhi’ arrested as his Bil’in movement scores huge success Israel’s illegal administrative detention of non-violent Palestinian activist
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One aspect of the settlement project that must be grasped is the extent to which ideological settlers embody a perverse mixture of religious fundamentalist, terrorist, and anarchist. To help convey this point, I introduce the settlers’ “price tag” policy, an effort to create a heavy price for any Israeli state regulation of their illegal activities. [...]
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Is Israel unique in having serious social problems with racism, particularly with anti-Arab racism? Of course not. Just about every country in the world has racist undercurrents that occasionally bubble to the surface. But in what other ostensibly Western, democratic societies would the team captain of a professional sports need to apologize publicly to the [...]
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Where else in the world do you hear modern, educated, self-titled democrats speaking about the “threats” posed by minority groups, obsessing about their birth and death rates, scheming for ways to maintain demographic advantages? I can think only of the darkest and most jingoistic corners of the Western world. But such thought is standard fare [...]
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The Israel Land Administration (ILA) is the kind of government agency that would attract very little attention in most countries. In Israel/Palestine, however, this relatively innocuous sounding organization plays a pivotal role in the conflict. Why is it so important? Established in 1960, the ILA manages a full 93% of Israeli land, including land owned [...]
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Israelis talk often and loudly about their desires for peace. But its never been clear precisely what peace concept it is they desire. In particular, Israeli notions of peace have never gone so far as to grant the Palestinians the same national rights that Israelis claim for themselves. Well, according to a new poll by [...]
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