Let’s hope Obama treats this Israeli attempt to indefinitely postpone any negotiations with the Palestinians with the contempt it deserves. If not, a third intifada is far from unlikely: The new Israeli government will not move ahead on the core issues of peace talks with the Palestinians until it sees progress in U.S. efforts to…
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Talking won’t kill anyone
Let the usual suspects bleat, but this is certainly good news. It’s called acknowledging Middle East realities: The former Labour minister Clare Short has been embroiled in a row after inviting senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshal to address MPs in Parliament. Ms Short faced strong criticism from both the British and Israeli governments for her…
Leave the Nazis dead and buried
I generally agree with the comments by Muzzlewatch about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech in Geneva. Much of the talk was actually historically accurate and presented uncomfortable truths for the West and Israel in particular, but his Holocaust denial, aggression and defending of human rights was all a sick joke when one knows the reality…
A chance to discuss Israeli PR
Only on Al-Jazeera English. A necessary debate about the role of Zionist spin in the American media and the reporting of the Gaza war:
It’s time for Jews to answer serious questions
The attempt by supporters of Israel to smear anybody with the anti-Semitic brush will only increase as the Jewish state takes its place in the gallery of rogue nations. Take the London Independent columnist Howard Jacobson, who wrote in his paper in February that much criticism of Israel during the Gaza war was, you guessed…
One rule for him and another for the others
On Canada, George W. Bush, Hamas, supporting terrorism and George Galloway:
Watching the elites move their cards
Two opinion articles in today’s New York Times that suggest a noticable shift in that paper’s stance on Israel/Palestine (or at least providing space for more critical voices). First up, Roger Cohen writes in yet another piece that Obama cannot allow under any circumstances Israel to bomb Iran: “Israel would be utterly crazy to attack…
This is what the Jewish state faces forever?
Thomas Ricks writes the following on his Foreign Policy blog. Bleak beyond belief: Ariel Siegelman, an Israeli specialist in counterterrorism, offers the best explanation I’ve seen so far for what Israel was trying to do in the Gaza attack: For almost three years [after the 2006 Lebanon war], there were no illusions; we knew that…
Yes, destruction is a Jewish trait
This is the man, Danny Zamir, who was instrumental in IDF soliders coming forward to share their horrific stories over Gaza. And then he writes this offensive drivel in the Jerusalem Post: The guiding principle that directs IDF combat soldiers, both in their planning and conduct in combat, encompasses a balance between two needs: to…
Human rights justice for all
A necessary request from Israel’s leading human rights group, B’Tselem: B’Tselem welcomes the appointment of the jurist Richard Goldstone to head the fact-finding mission, called for by the UN Human Rights Council, to investigate the recent fighting in Gaza. Particularly welcome is the delegation’s mandate, which covers violations of international humanitarian law by both sides,…