Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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One terrible consequence of Israeli (and Western) racism toward Arabs is that a number of what should be unnecessary defenses of Arab behavior must be made. I don’t want to be in the position of defending Hamas, for example, and yet the absurd caricature of that complex organization must be countered.
Ditto on the recent [...]
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As I mentioned in my earlier post on Haiti and Gaza, Israel sent an IDF search-and-rescue team to Haiti to share “Jewish ethics” with the disaster-stricken locals. This is, of course, entirely unrelated to Israel’s desire to re-earn some of the brownie points lost in the course of, inter alia, its multiple year siege [...]
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Imagine if the US caught wind of a poll being run in, say, Yemen by that country’s biggest news network, their equivalent of a CNN or MSNBC.
The poll asks the following question: “Given the recent attempted terrorist attack on the US and the United States’ threatening statements in response, what do you think [...]
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There are few influential journalists as arrogant, deceptively violent, and insane as Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. I mean, what other pseudo-journalist could write an editorial about the peace plan he pitched to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah (in the early 2000s), which was nothing more than UN Security Council Resolution 242, which [...]
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If Israelis and Americans just understood better what Palestinian life was like under Israeli occupation, then there would be far less sanctioning and acceptance of the brutal, 42-year long occupation. Or so I have long believed. In particular, I have argued the US citizenry has a critical role in pressuring their congresspeople to, [...]
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If I was editor of the New York Times, the self-proclaimed “newspaper of record”, during a week when:
Jewish terrorist/settler Jack Teitel was arrested
The 14th anniversary of Yitzchak Rabin’s assassination by another Jewish terrorist was being commemorated
Netanyhahu’s wholesale subjugation to the settler movement was recognized as having killed Obama’s so-called peace process
The NY Mets [...]
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Last week I highlighted a recent essay in the New Yorker on Gaza. I had a number of problems with the details of the article, but despite those concerns I considered it one of the deeper analyses I had seen in a mainstream American media outlet.
What attracted me to the article? First, [...]
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Today’s Jerusalem Post carries the type of article that would never be published in a major US media outlet. The article examines Israeli social psychology around Operation Cast Lead and its aftermath. The article is so self-aware and penetrating, its worth an extensive quotation:
The kill ratio was 100-to-1 in our favor. The destruction [...]
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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 [...]
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When the US describes Israel’s policy of evicting Palestinians and demolishing their homes as “unhelpful” to the peace process [sic], they are using shockingly euphemistic language to characterize what is, in effect, ethnic cleansing.
What does that process look like? How do settlers go about stealing Palestinian land under Israeli law? Part [...]
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