Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, recently explained his role as training Palestinians to essentially manage the Zionist occupation. This is clearly the “vision” Barack Obama imagines for a supposedly independent Palestinian state. Now a profile in Israel’s largest newspaper worries that Dayton thinks very differently to the…
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Yes, we don’t trust your own whitewash
Human Rights Watch demands Israel behave like a civilised nation and allow an international investigation into its actions in Gaza: US President Barack Obama should endorse the comprehensive UN investigation, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, into violations of international law during the recent Gaza conflict, and should urge Israel, when he meets today with Prime…
It’s our side or nothing
The Columbia Journalism Review is currently running a series about this year’s war in Gaza (one piece is by the New York Times stringer based in the Strip and another comparing British and American media coverage). Lisa Goldman, an Israeli journalist, has written an essay that reveals the dark heart of the Israeli state: During…
A man for the ages
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza infertility specialist, suffered the death of his three daughters during Israel’s January offensive. His story was heart-breaking and inspiring. A man who had nearly lost it all yet refused to hate. Amazing. Now this: Four months later, far from voicing bitterness over his loss, Abuelaish is trying to turn his…
When the length of hair is relevant
Israeli army rabbis were condemned during the Gaza war for encouraging soldiers to kill Palestinians with impunity. They’re only Arabs, right lads? This story is therefore amusing, but hardly deals with the key issues at hand, namely the infiltration of religious fundamentalists in the IDF: The Israeli military has issued new regulations that impose greater…
What the US doesn’t want to see
A letter to Barack Obama from a Palestinian doctor in Galilee: The newly-elected prime minister of… Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, and his foreign minister, Mr. Avigdor Lieberman, plan evict me from my home and to take away my garden. These two persons and their fellow ministers were democratically elected to their positions and will use…
The threat of a guitar
Amira Hass in Haaretz: Israel forbids books, clothing and musical instruments to be brought into Gaza Strip.
We will isolate you
One more example of how the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel is gathering steam, mostly far away from the mainstream media. The Edinburgh Film Festival, after pressure from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) and film-maker Ken Loach, has decided against accepting money from the Israeli Embassy. Loach’s statement was strong: I’m…
They will never forget
Al-Jazeera English on the Palestinian day of mourning, May 15, reported from a devastated Gaza:
Please let us bomb Iran for the world’s sake
Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the neo-conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines his perspective on the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu: One of the difficult differences between Netanyahu and Obama concerns their fundamentally different views over the linkage of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to the containment of Iran’s nuclear…