The IDF are “concerned” that soldiers are participating in settler “revenge attacks” (but are doing virtually nothing about… it): Mickey Haimovich [anchor]: The IDF is concerned by a phenomenon where soldiers who reside on West Bank settlements join acts of revenge and riots against Palestinians. Two soldiers were apprehended after they were spotted by IDF cameras.…
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How many Americans know they’re helping crazy Jews find God?
An important post by Richard Silverstein which investigates and questions the complicity of US, non-profit organisations in funding, supporting and sustaining the most extreme Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
Times changing rapidly in the Middle East
My following article appears in today’s Crikey: Times are changing fast in the Middle East. The legal affairs editor at Yediot, Israel’s largest circulation daily, wrote on the weekend that the situation in the West Bank is “apartheid”. One leading American commentator, Time’s Joe Klein, directly challenges Barack Obama to withhold US aid until Israel…
The West Bank paradise, claims Israeli leader
Benjamin Netanyahu, a man of peace, speaks at the Jewish Federations of North America: My friends, my government is working to advance peace and we are not just talking. We have removed hundreds of security checkpoints and roadblocks in the West Bank. I personally extended the hours of operation on the Allenby Bridge and I’ve…
What part of Zionist fascism don’t we understand?
The ultra-fundamentalist Od Yosef Hai yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar is infamous for its involvement in settler violence against Palestinians. Here’s a notorious rabbi offering a complete guide to killing non-Jews. This is what we are supporting in the Middle East.
Leading Israeli, mainstream commentator: apartheid is here
Times are changing and fast. Israel’s largest circulation daily, Yediot, featured yesterday a startling article that dared utter the “A” word, apartheid. The paper’s legal affairs editor wrote the following article (provided to me in translation via an Israeli source): Apartheid is here / The forbidden road Op-ed, Boaz Okon, Yediot, November 8 2009 Israel…
The life of separated Palestinians
Al-Jazeera reports on daily life for Palestinians in the West Bank. Israel is a democracy? In their dreams:
Jewish leftists are killing Israel, argues Zionist extremist
The Bureau of Counterpropaganda highlights a Jewish website that discusses the “Jewish Danger in Galilee”: If you read or see CNN or the BBC or even the more even handed FOX news, you may come away with the feeling that the government of Israel’s settlement policy is an illegal impediment to Peace… …the Arabs are…
Israel is falling apart; most Jews don’t want to know
Finally, the Americans are starting to tire of the Middle East conflict (even if they blame both sides for the impasse, oblivious to the clear power imbalance between Israelis and Palestinians). Here’s Thomas Friedman in the New York Times: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything…
Washington Post accuses Arabs of being unreasonable, hold the phone
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting notes the almost daily bias in the American media against the Palestinians (it’s their fault that they dare call for a settlement freeze in the West Bank?): Today’s Washington Post (11/2/09) notes the White House’s apparent softening towards the Israeli side in Mideast negotiations (the headline is “Israel Putting Forth…