Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
My aunt recently forwarded me an article by Haaretz’s Aluf Benn, which argues (correctly, in my view) that the US is engaging in possible war crimes during the targeted assassinations carried out by its remote control drone planes. The subtext of the article, of course, with which I strongly disagree, is that since the US [...]
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Yesterday the shambolic US Congress voted 344-36 to denounce the Goldstone report in a non-binding resolution that claims, among other things, the report is “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy”. As with the rest of the attacks against Goldstone, the House Resolution 867 does not debate any of the facts in the [...]
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Would you like to know why it was the Obama administration moved from demanding an unconditional end to “all settlement activity” this May to the present spineless pandering to the Netanyahu government? Yoel Marcus from Haaretz, a man I cannot ever remember agreeing with previously, explains: The [US] president, meanwhile, has learned a thing or [...]
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Many Israelis are frustrated with the US for its unconditional support of anything Israel does, including the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Although we don’t hear many of these voices in the US, they are much more widely disseminated in Israel. I hope to bring some of these perspectives to an [...]
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In the annals of American media coverage of Israel/Palestine, yesterday’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart was a watershed. On national TV, Jon Stewart interviewed Anna Baltzer and Mustafa Barghouti, advocates for equal Palestinian rights. They got on TV, they argued for equal Palestinian rights, they advocated for security and democracy for both peoples, they responded [...]
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If you want to understand better the more paranoid and totalitarian aspects of Israeli and Jewish thinking, the Jerusalem Post contains a shining example today, written by Harvey Schwartz, chairman of the American Israeli Action Coalition (AIAC), “an organization that seeks to represent the 250,000 Americans living in Israel”. Most American-Israelis I have spoken to [...]
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J Street is a fairly new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobbying group in the US, which positions itself a notch or two to the left of AIPAC’s “all criticism of Israel is anti-semitic” line. This week, J Street held its first national conference in Washington, DC, which was very well-attended despite being boycotted by Michael Oren, Israel’s [...]
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The Promised Land blog has an excellent post today about the recent political attacks against Peace Now. These attacks include being called “a virus, which causes the state great damage” by Moshe Ya’alon, former IDF Chief of Staff and current Knesset member. They also include Peace Now’s director-general being banned from entering Israel’s parliament by [...]
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