Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
From the category archives:
“They sat [the child] down and put his hand on the chair and simply broke it right there on the chair,” recounted a female IDF soldier.
The blogosphere is burning today with the recently published accounts of female soldiers in the IDF, who are expected to compensate for their relative physical weakness with extraordinary [...]
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Ehud Barak is one the last Labor people standing. He sold out what were the purported values of Israel’s center-left Labor party in order to gain a seat (defense minister) in the most right-wing government Israel has ever had (the current one). By doing so, he helped facilitate the unprecedented collapse of one [...]
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Dr. King, if only the world listened to your message instead of using you as a cheapened stage prop. That is the dream I have.
“A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human [...]
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One reason that Israel has such an easy time maintaining the occupation is because they don’t face the costs of doing so. Of course, the Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates that Israel must provide for the people living under its military occupation. But for over a decade now, since the Oslo Accords were signed [...]
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An outrageously large number of Israeli politicians express violently racist sentiments in public. What must they say in private?
Today’s case study in Israeli racism toward Arabs/Palestinians/Persians/Muslims (aren’t they all the same anyway?) comes from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who is the spiritual leader of Shas, a right-wing, religious party in Israeli with 11 [...]
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Next time an Israeli tries to tell me about how much Israelis love peace, I will hold them accountable for this. The Likud, which has been one of Israel’s mainstream parties for decades, the party of the current sitting prime minister, thinks the Oslo Accords were a disaster. (Editor’s note: They were, of [...]
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This is not a deep political point. Its nothing more than a simple comment about militarism and racism. Yesterday, an Israeli mental patient was shot dead by Israeli soldiers near the Erez crossing with Gaza after he tried to climb the fence into Gaza. Yes, the symbolism really is that ironic: a [...]
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Ephraim “Effi” Eitam is no marginal figure in Israeli politics, even if he relatively right of mainstream opinion. He is a decorated Brigadier General in the Israel Defense Forces, having won a Medal of Distinguished Service during the Yom Kippur War. He commanded the Givati Brigade during the first intiffada (1988–1993), a unit [...]
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Yesterday I posted an article about the evolution of Israeli responses to the currently tabled Palestinian threat to unilaterally declare independence. First, there was silence and confusion from Israel. Then, in sequence, the reactions moved from pleading with the Palestinians to threatening them if they took their case to the UN Security Council. [...]
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When Yaakov “Jack” Teitel was arrested a couple weeks ago, we heard endless preaching from the settler community about how he was an isolated and extreme case, as if the ethnic cleansing they perpetrate in the West Bank is not criminally suspect enough.
Today, we are provided with a 230-page guide from Rabbi Yitzhak [...]
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