Jeffrey Goldberg has a feeling he’d like to share: John Bolton thinks Israel might strike Iran before the end of the year. So do I, for what it’s worth. I sense a growing feeling among some Israeli analysts that a strike is almost inevitable.
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How many elephants would the NYTs like to ignore in the Mid-East?
It’s a real achievement by the New York Times to write an editorial about the Middle East peace process without mentioning Hamas or Gaza.
Letter from Gaza: Keep off the grass
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Freelance journalist and author Antony Loewenstein writes from inside Gaza: The American International School in Gaza was bombed on 3 January, completely destroying the institution. Today it is a twisted wreck of concrete, metal and burnt vans. Surreally, when I visited a few days ago I…
Stories from Gaza
My following video and article appears on Mondoweiss: The Western view of Gaza is of a desperate and violent place. Terrorism, extremism, Jew-hatred and poverty merge to create a dangerous brew. The Hamas-controlled territory poses a supposedly existential threat to Israel (and Jews everywhere.) But this is only one side of the besieged Strip. And…
The Jews who whinge for (often) questionable reasons
Has anti-Semitism risen in Britain, especially after the Gaza war? And how accurate are the Jewish organisations reporting on the supposed increase? Australian blog Bureau of Counter-Propaganda takes a look.
My kind of Jews get together
Self-hating Jews, sign up for the ultimate test: do you hate yourself enough? Joseph Dana investigates.
What we don’t hear in Palestine
Checkpoint 303 is found music, fragments, reflections and beats from the Palestinian occupied territories: The electronic experiment kicked off in 2004 when tunisian sound cutter SC MoCha teamed up with Bethlehem based palestinian sound catcher SC Yosh to form Checkpoint 303. The idea was to cut, track, fragment and reconstruct the audio soundscape from daily…
Don’t suck the Obama lolly
Ali Abunimah on the illusion of the Messiah, aka Barack Obama: The Obama administration has used up its first six months negotiating a settlement freeze with Israel (with little to show). At this rate, how long would it take to negotiate the core issues in the century-long conflict resulting from the Zionist effort to transform…
At least somebody in Israel is against the colonies
A new video from Israeli group Peace Now on the issue of illegal settlements: