Between Dome of the Rock and a Hard Place
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Sometimes numbers are worth a thousand words. And if the numbers aren’t enough, the selection of maps on this website (which can be found under the Resources tab) can provide another couple thousand words worth of images.
Length of the West Bank-Israel border: 196 miles.
Projected length of West Bank wall: 437 miles.
Projected proportion [...]
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Proponents of Israel often tout the country’s judicial system as evidence of its cultural sophistication and commitment to democratic ideals. Well, a case that was decided last week significantly complicated this picture (as does, for example, an earlier ruling, which was the subject of this blog’s first post).
The case concerned a 17-year [...]
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In the recent past, it would have been absolutely inconceivable to see a reference to Israeli apartheid from a mainstream news source. Until recently, it would have also been taboo to question the viability of the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But change is in the air.
Today, no less than [...]
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As I wrote the post yesterday on the significance of the Daily Show’s interview with Baltzer and Barghouti, a part of me suspected that I would come to see my reaction partially as hype or misplaced optimism.
After further thought, however, I find that the opposite is true: I think the show is even [...]
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Muzzlewatch’s Sydney Levy hits the nail on the head with respect to the stereotypical demographic fear-mongering Jews that routinely do when assessing the two main options facing Israel: end ethnicity based exclusivism or end Israel’s pretense to democracy.
“But let’s focus on the present. The question on the table [at the J Street conference], [...]
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Amnesty International just released a report on water rights in Israel/Palestine.
Matt Yglesias gets to the crux of the matter:
“Israel is, of course, a democracy. And politicians in democracies are responsive to the interests of the electorate. Jewish settlers in the West Bank get to vote. Palestinians in the West Bank don’t get to vote. [...]
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Meet the affable Major Adrian Agassi, a senior Israeli judge in the military courts of the occupied West Bank. He is one of the most important officials in Israel’s judicial administration of occupied Palestinian territory, with responsibilities that include overseeing land conflicts arising out of settlement construction and serving as special judge for administrative [...]
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For the 45,000 Palestinian residents of the Beit Awwa municipality in the southern West Bank, the years since 2001 have been unusually difficult. In that year, one of the most popular and useful roads in the area was closed to them—and them alone. The Israeli military commander in the area had determined that [...]
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