J Street’s statement about the Obama administration’s capitulation to Israeli demands reeks of desperation; what happens if Washington doesn’t deliver, people? Though we welcome the government of Israel’s expressed willingness to restrain settlement growth, we echo the Secretary’s statement today in Morocco that offers made to date fall far short of the Obama administration’s position…
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Terrorism is defined by the West Bank project
Just how many Jewist terrorists exist in Israel? As importantly, almost daily abuse of Palestinians in the West Bank by Jewish settlers is both ignored and defended by the Jewish state: A senior Shin Bet official said Jewish terrorists that have not been caught are still at large and may be planning future attacks, Israel…
Dispatch from J Street
My following article is published in the Huffington Post: The Obama administration’s National Security Adviser General James Jones told the “pro-Israel and pro-peace” Israel lobby J Street this week that America believes “Israeli security and peace are inseparable.” The comment received a wild cheer, although similar comments were made during the Bush years. The over…
J Street pushing a policy that leads to disappointment
My following article appears in today’s Crikey: Antony Loewenstein writes from Washington DC: During this week’s first J Street conference in Washington DC… ”‰—”‰a US-based, “pro-Israel and pro-peace” lobby group that aims to widen the debate over the Middle East… … ”‰—”‰an older woman stood up in a session titled “What does it mean to be pro-Israel?” and…
When two-states die, Israel has a slight problem on its hands
A recent piece in Israeli paper Ma’ariv by Avshalom Vilan, a former Meretz Knesset member, articulates the growing fear of some Israelis that apartheid in the occupied territories is simply unsustainable: Regrettably, however, it is more important to the Israeli leadership to safeguard the coalition than to safeguard the state. Instead of grabbing the bull…
Israel wants to sell this to the world?
Middle East Report Online on the political power of the fundamentalist Jewish settlers (as ever, the impotence of the Zionist Diaspora to condemn these fanatics is telling): At first glance, it is hard to explain the success of the West Bank settlers. Numerically, excluding the 200,000 settlers in illegally annexed East Jerusalem, they constitute just…
West Bank settlers should be hugged not shamed, say reporters
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting show how the US corporate media feel terribly sorry for those beleaguered Jewish settlers living illegally on Palestinian land but show less sympathy for the Arabs whose land is being stolen by said Jews: Ethnic cleansing could hardly hope for a friendlier hearing.
The conditions for another Palestinian uprising are there
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, and possible future Palestinian leader, speaks from an Israeli prison: The question that should be asked is why did the Al-Aqsa Intifada break out? Was it not because of the collapse of the peace process? Because the negotiation reached a dead end? Was it not because of continued settlement and…
Making occupied Palestinian lives bearable
Israeli peace group Ta’ayush, true heroes of the Middle East, were back in the West Bank this weekend: The residents of Krayot, a village of some 2,500 tucked in a hilly region between the settlements of Shiloh and Eli midway between Nablus and Ramallah, have destroyed the dirt mound blocking their access to the main…
The public face of Zionist colonisation
Illegal West Bank settlers tell an audience how reasonable and God-abiding they are: