An Israeli paper is reporting that the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank is now over 300,000. The daily Haaretz says the number of West Bank settlers is 304,569 – a 2.3 percent increase since January. It’s quoting statistics compiled by the military. The number of Israeli settlers has more than doubled since…
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Evil gone, reports serious journalist
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has spent the last while hanging out with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concludes the following: After spending a week traveling the frontline of the “war on terrorism” — from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan in the seas off Iran, to…
Why the web is breaking down Zionist tribalism
Following our recent video shot in Jerusalem on Americans, Jews, settlements and bigotry, one of the makers, David Jacobus, responds on Mondoweiss to some of the criticisms directed at us: As a contributor to the film Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama, I wanted to add some perspective on the debates…
Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama
The following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein and Joseph Dana write: With all the current rhetoric out of Washington regarding an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, we wanted to gauge public opinion on the streets of Jerusalem on a sunny, Sunday afternoon last weekend. What we found was…
In Bethlehem, students are warehoused behind the wall
My following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: “Signs of Hope Emerge in the West Bank” was a headline in the New York Times on 16 July. On the same day, the London Guardian headlined a similar story, “Allure of normal life triumphs in West Bank ‘ghost town‘”. Both pieces…
While the US and Israel spar over settlements, Israel continues ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem
The following story was recently published on Mondoweiss: Joseph Dana, Mairav Zonszein and Antony Loewenstein report from occupied East Jerusalem: Today [19 July] roughly one hundred people gathered to protest the eviction of the Palestinian Hanoun family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. They are the latest target of the…
Loewenstein: Looking for God in a West Bank colony, Jews shoot me death stares
My following article was recently published on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein writes from East Jerusalem: The occupation hits you from the very beginning. Arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, I caught a shared shuttle to East Jerusalem. I noticed an advertisement mentioning service to a number of settlements. It’s simply a normal part of…
So this is what the US means about balance
What matters in the Middle East conflict is arms and money. So: The US administration is going to increase defense aid that is given to Israel in 2010 to USD 2.775 billion as part of the gradual increase in aid to USD 30 billion over the course of a ten-year period. In the coming years…
Making occupation clean and friendly
Being here in Israel and Palestine, something I hear time and time again is the desperate need for life to be “normal”. Both sides want it, but only one is living under occupation. Due to Israeli human rights groups, the US and even Israeli pragmatism, the West Bank occupation is getting nicer by the day.…
When Jews don’t seem to like real debate
Who says America’s Zionist lobby isn’t afraid of the new kid on the block, J Street? Richard Silverstein reports.