Apartheid (via Haaretz): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet decided unanimously on Sunday to extend the Citizenship Law restricting the “family reunification” of Israeli citizens with certain foreign partners for an additional year. The law denies entry or living permits to partners who are considered a security threat, among them Palestinians from the West Bank and…
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Obama apparently believes Israel is a neurotic child needing cuddles
The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg tells Haaretz as Barack Obama touches down in Israel: President Obama listened carefully to the things President Clinton told him. I believe he now understands that the Israelis are a damaged, lonely and neurotic people who face genuine threats to their existence, so they need love badly. Obama won’t embrace…
Wait, why is Obama really going to Israel again?
Barack Obama is soon to land in Israel and only a fool believes the US President is doing anything other than appeasing the Zionist lobby, occupation backers, the arms industry and other cretins and fools. Gideon Levy in Haaretz: Barack Obama has decided to punish the Israelis: He is talking to them as if they…
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on thankless task of reporting occupation
This Al-Jazeera documentary shows one of Israel’s courageous journalists, Haaretz’s Gideon Levy, as he documents his country’s brutal occupation and blindness towards it. As he says, Israel is that rare nation that practices apartheid and yet sees itself as the victim. Levy is one of the most inspiring reporters I know:
Hating Arabs is Netanyahu’s gift to Israelis
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: Benjamin Netanyahu’s children attacked an Arab cleaning man on the seaside promenade in Tel Aviv and caused him serious injuries. They attacked an Arab waiter in a Tel Aviv restaurant with chairs and their fists. They attacked an Arab from Upper Nazareth at the shore of Lake Kinneret because they heard…
“5 Broken Cameras” shakes up Israeli consciousness?
The Israeli and Palestinian film 5 Broken Cameras didn’t win Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars (Searching for Suger Man, a fine film, did). This piece by Barak Ravid in Haaretz is the perfect example of the liberal Zionist dilemma; frustrated by the occupation but seemingly incapable and/or unwilling to do anything about it: There…
Why Kafka lives in Palestine
Amira Hass in Haaretz: The Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli police in the West Bank will continue trying to convince the High Court of Justice on Monday that the routine of fear in which two elderly farmers live due to attacks by settlers is reasonable and proportionate. In the name of the IDF and…
Establishing Palestinian bantustans always the plan
Amira Hass in Haaretz: When Habayit Hayehudi party leader and rising political star Naftali Bennett calls for annexing Area C, the part of the West Bank under full Israeli security and civil control, he is following the logic of every single Israeli government: maximize the territory, minimize the Arabs. ”¦ Bennett can propose annexation because…
Evangelical Christians pouring millions into Israel and the Zionist cause
Here’s an interesting recent piece in Haaretz that should cause alarm to any human beings who reject fundamentalism. The sad reality is that far too many evangelicals back the most extreme forms of Zionism and occupation: With two mobile phones and a pair of sunglasses in one hand, a white handkerchief to wipe away sweat…
“The time for bombing is over”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation. Life is like that sometimes. But how to accomplish that? At first they tried doing nothing. For 20 years they were idle, and indeed nothing happened. They then tried rocks and knives, the first intifada. And still nothing happened, except for…