The issue of New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, and the now confirmed state of his son in the IDF, is causing waves across the web. The paper’s Public Editor comments: There are so many considerations swirling around this case: Bronner is a superb reporter. Nobody at The Times wants to give in…
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What happens in the Middle East
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East spread the message virally:
The Hague may soon be seeing some Israeli leaders
Trouble ahead for the Jewish state: The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday. A decision to bring the report on last year’s Gaza war before the court would follow a debate in…
Israel as a “fascist state under the cover of Zionism”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: How can we truly know what happened in the Gaza Strip without Breaking the Silence, and how can we know what is happening in the West Bank every day without B’Tselem? But Im Tirtzu doesn’t want us to know; it wants to cover our shame. That, to it, is patriotism, but…
Israel can act how it wants during war, writes Zionist elite
Giora Eiland, former chairman of Israel’s National Security Council, writes in Ynet that international law is “irrelevant” when the Jewish state behaves in Gaza.
Dershowitz on Goldstone
Alan Dershowitz has concocted a response to the Goldstone Report over Gaza. The Magnes Zionist blog dissects it and reaches a depressing conclusion; the Harvard Law Professor is incapable of finding any fault with Israeli actions.
Middle East news that falls through the cracks
Sometimes its hard to keep up with the disturbing news coming out of Israel and Palestine. So here’s a good summary of some recent reading: – Evicted Jewish settlers from Gaza recently found any crimes from the 2005 withdrawal wiped clean from the slate due to a bill in the Knesset. – Newsflash: some American…
America reminds the world who really controls Israel
Washington certainly has a strange way of showing its opposition to Israel’s Gaza policy: The United States has suggested to Israel that easing the Gaza blockade would help counter the fallout from the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead a year ago. … The Americans said they do not believe in…
South Africa may be Israel’s future
Everywhere one turns these days, the apartheid/South African analogy is growing in strength: A senior Israeli military official during last year’s war in Gaza has said that an independent commission of inquiry should investigate allegations that Israeli troops committed war crimes. Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was in charge of the Israel Defence Forces’ international law…