Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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J Street, the new Jewish lobbying group in the US, claims it is “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” Put aside for a moment definitional issues about what “pro-Israel” means exactly (Is it pro-Jewish ethnocracy? Is it democracy for all Israeli citizens?). Also put aside what “pro-peace” means in the context of a two-state agenda that [...]
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The war of 1948 and the associated ethnic cleansing, which the Israelis recognize as the War of Independence and the Palestinians consider the Nakba (catastrophe), is an absolutely fundamental topic worth a lot of attention. I plan to tackle this complex issue in many stages. But the Borderline Crimes blog has an excellent [...]
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This blog should have started on December 28th, 2008, the day the revoltingly named Operation Cast Lead began.
I had observed with a growing sense of horror the drumbeat for war in Israeli society. It reminded me of neoconservative hysteria in the run-up to America’s most recent war on Iraq. I had read with alarm the [...]
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