Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Fox News: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel would never make peace with Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, a stand that could undermine peace negotiations in the region. In an interview with FOX News, Netanyahu said Gaza can’t be part of a peace deal while Hamas…
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Only nice views in Israel, please
Free speech in Israel? In their deluded dreams, writes Amira Hass in Haaretz: A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead. “This is a time of war, and every incident harms the people’s morale.” This was not a sentence in a right-wing journal,…
Israeli asks the world to understand his pain and trauma
The New York Times has clearly taken the decision to not overly focus on the devastating UN report over Israel’s war against Gaza. Today they publish an odd piece by David Landau, the former editor of Haaretz: Israel intentionally went after civilians in Gaza — and wrapped its intention in lies. That chilling — and…
What the UN Gaza study says about Israel
There is so much fascinating analysis over the UN Gaza report. A choice collection below: Amira Hass in Haaretz: Like the Serbs of yore, we Israelis continue thinking it’s the world that is wrong, and only we who are right. Israel struck a civilian population that remains under its control, it didn’t fulfill its obligation…
There are millions of anti-Zionist Jews in the world
This Haaretz headline speaks for itself: Israeli Minister to Swedish Jews: Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism I guess that settles the matter then.
Gideon Levy, a Jewish beacon
Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy, one of Israel’s finest investigators of the occupation, is interviewed by In These Times and reveals once again why his voice is central to highlighting Israel’s moral decline: How did you get from there to where you are now: a journalist famous for ferociously speaking out for Palestinian human rights and…
Minute by minute planning to bomb the Islamic Republic
Amos Harel in Haaretz on the supposedly normal plans to bomb Iran: For an Israeli attack to be considered, Israel would need the tacit approval of the Obama administration, if only in the sense that it looks the other way. This is due above all to the necessity of passing through the Iraqi air corridor,…
Norway should go much further against Israel
Amira Hass in Haaretz: The question is not why Norway divested from the defense electronics giant Elbit Systems, but why only now, and why only from that company? The country that gave the name of its capital city to what the world thought of as a peace process is still invested in companies involved in…
Drop rose-coloured views to lift Gaza peace hopes
My following article appears in today’s Canberra Times newspaper: Hussam Abuayish lives in Gaza’s Johrel-Deik district near the Israeli border. With yellow teeth and nervous demeanour, the 24-year-old told me in July of an Israeli missile that landed near his family home a month before. His sister died and he remains in pain because of…
So the mad settlers now run Israeli policy
Amos Harel writes in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows his control over the land of outposts is flimsy. He is not the one who will decide how many caravans will be placed on hill 725, or how many Palestinian orchards will be uprooted near Yitzhar. A senior defense official told Haaretz: “Israeli law was…