Carolick Glick, Jerusalem Post columnist, pro-setter, anti-Obama and hardline Zionist, tells us that Israel has no demographic issues and she kindly offers a “peace plan” of her own: Both the Fayyad plan supporters and the one-state solution crowd believe that their plans can indirectly advance the so-called peace process. In their view, frightened of both…
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Breaking down Israel’s wall
Freedom lives: Eighteen demonstrators were arrested By Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) today in the West Bank village of Deir Al Ghussoun, north of Tulkarem, after Israel’s Separation Wall was breached by Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters. The protesters intended to march to village’s lands that were left isolated behind the Wall, and managed to break…
Is Washington’s peace process over?
My latest New Matilda column is about the failure of the two-state solution: With hopes for a two-state solution waning, the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas is prompting new calls for a one-state solution, writes Antony Loewenstein The decision of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resign and not stand in proposed January elections is a blessing…
J Street broadens public debate on Israel
My following article is published today in Online Opinion: Distinguished South African judge Richard Goldstone wrote the UN report on Israel’s December/January war against the Gazan people. It detailed war crimes by both Israel and Hamas and demanded both entities fully investigate the serious charges of targeting civilians and infrastructure. “Pro-Israel and pro-peace” lobby J…
Dividing and conquering Palestinian lives is what keeps us up at night
Ben White writes in the Guardian on the Israeli-led separation between the West Bank and Gaza: Twenty-one-year-old Palestinian student Berlanty Azzam was seized by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank last month. Bound and blindfolded, she was forcibly deported to the Gaza Strip. Berlanty was in her final semester at Bethlehem University…
How two-state believers live in their own, academic world
Following the article in yesterday’s Australian newspaper by Philip Mendes and Nick Dyrenfurth – lovers of enforcing “acceptable” boundaries over Israel/Palestine – that claimed “fundamentalists” have hijacked the Middle East debate, I submitted the following, unpublished letter: Blind supporters of Israel have for decades framed the Jewish state as the victim of a vicious, global…
How many Jewish soldiers are helping settler madness?
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.…
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…