Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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 ratio [...]
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The Israeli press is abuzz with reports about the arrest of the Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, an American Jewish fundamentalist who became a settler (and much else) in the occupied West Bank. In particular, he has murdered at least two Palestinians, sent a bomb to a Jewish family with whom he disagreed ideologically, tried to [...]
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In a recent interview, the brilliant Amira Hass (the only Jewish Israeli journalist to live as a full-time reporter in occupied Palestine) describes the current regime as a mixture of apartheid, military occupation, and classical colonialism. But the form of apartheid that exists in Israel/Palestine is not motivated by racism, she argues, as evidenced by [...]
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