After the New York Times editorialised about the Middle East peace process and essentially repeated Obama administration talking points, the Los Angeles Times, while equally believing in the impossible two-state solution, challenges the Zionist spokespeople who claim Obama is anti-Israel: Evenhandedness usually is considered to be a positive attribute in diplomacy, but when it comes…
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How many elephants would the NYTs like to ignore in the Mid-East?
It’s a real achievement by the New York Times to write an editorial about the Middle East peace process without mentioning Hamas or Gaza.
Don’t suck the Obama lolly
Ali Abunimah on the illusion of the Messiah, aka Barack Obama: The Obama administration has used up its first six months negotiating a settlement freeze with Israel (with little to show). At this rate, how long would it take to negotiate the core issues in the century-long conflict resulting from the Zionist effort to transform…
Why us Jews do what we do
Joseph Dana and Mairav Zonszein, activists and friends in Jerusalem, are interviewed by Jew School on their incendiary and important video reports on mainstream Israeli attitudes: I never referred to myself as an activist as I feel like it is a bit of a dirty, dismissive word. Don’t get me wrong, Ta’ayush is engaged in…
Bring Bush back
A former worker in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, Gregory Levey, suggests that the Obama administration appoint George W. Bush as his Middle East envoy to pressure and cajole Israel. Clearly Levey has never spoken to any Arabs in the Middle East; Bush isn’t the most liked individual.
Hamas can only be ignored for so long
The split between Fatah and Hamas is spoken about constantly in Gaza. The vast majority of people I talk to say that they dearly hope ideologues on both sides take a step back and reconcile for the sake of peace. Israel and America have other ideas: A new report for the London-based Middle East Monitor…
Stand on your own feet
Israel clearly doesn’t like being pressured to change its behaviour, despite sucking on the tit of Washington: Israel alone in a poll of 25 nations has decreased its approval of the United States since President Barack Obama took office earlier this year, according to a recent survey. “The image of the United States has improved…
Obama is the devil, some Jews think
Yet another episode in the ongoing series we love to call, “mad Jews in Israel“.
Hope lives in Gaza despite siege, desperation and anger
My following essay appeared this week on Mondoweiss: The drive from Gaza City to Khan Younis takes around 40 minutes. The roads are rocky and the landscape barren, with destroyed houses and factories along the way. Cars and donkey-drawn carts populate the road. Last Friday I rode in a battered taxi towards the city to…