One of Israel’s leading historians, Benny Morris – a fine scholar who now represents the bigoted underbelly of Israeli society – knows how to solve the Middle East conflict: Morris concludes that a majority of Jews during the Mandate and Israelis in the years since have come to accept the notion of two states for…
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This is a plan guaranteed to lead to violence
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…
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…
The growth of the non-state actor
Hezbollah’s No. 2, cleric Naim Qassem, speaks to the Los Angeles Times: The more we clarify our image to the people of the West, the more pressure they will put on their governments to stop supporting Israel… In recent years, the Western perception of Hezbollah has changed. Even governments have started to look for reasons…
How to fight those non-state actors
Just because Israel lost its 2006 war against Hizbollah doesn’t mean that Washington can’t learn valuable lessons: A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon, one that could alter how the U.S. military fights in the future.…
How many own goals can the lobby have?
Just another day in the life of the extreme Zionist lobby looking like fools by pressuring the Canadian government to bar George Galloway. Will they ever learn that they simply come across as insecure Jews fearful of open debate?
Using the Palestinians
Azadeh Moaveni, Washington Post, Janaury 25: During a recent trip to Tehran, I noticed that the Benetton shop in my old neighborhood of Darrous was closed, its windows papered over. In the past, fundamentalists offended by the shop’s immodest displays had decried its immorality and spread rumors of “Zionist ownership.” This time, however, they set…
Mis-calculation on all sides
The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram quoted Hamas’ political leader Khaled Meshal on Tuesday as saying his Islamist group was surprised by the force Israel recently used against it in the Gaza Strip. Meshal, who was speaking at an Arab conference on Gaza in the Qatari capital Doha, reportedly told a closed forum that Hamas had believed…
Victory in blood
With the war against Gaza entering a new phase – partial “peace” though Israeli troops still occupy the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state claiming/hoping/praying that its actions will deter Hamas/Hizbollah/Iran – allegations such as these will only continue to grow: Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour…