Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, tells the Guardian that the two-state solution should be dead and buried: Israel’s domination, he says, is now complete, while the Palestinians are fragmented into five enclaves – inside Israel, in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the diaspora. In this situation, the concept of…
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We at the Israel lobby are here to help 24/7
Two revealing examples of the Zionist lobby at work, obscuring, ignoring and denying reality. Here’s Al-Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros: I recently jumped at the chance to take an all expenses paid helicopter ride over Israel and part of the West Bank. The trip was courtesy of The Israel Project (TIP) which describes itself as a non-profit,…
Taking our moral lead from Palestinian BDS backers
Anybody who says the vast bulk of Palestinian civil society don’t back boycotts are being deliberately dishonest. It’s a visible, legitimate and non-violent way to resist Israeli occupation: In anticipation of Nakba commemoration day next month, Palestinian student and youth groups across the West Bank and Gaza signed a memorandum enacting a massive boycott of…
Why can’t students in the West Bank visit Gaza?
Not all of the Israeli Left is dead and buried. Now and then they breath a little: Ten Israel Prize laureates and more than 50 academics and intellectuals wrote to the Israeli Defense Minister today asking him to cancel the sweeping ban Israel has imposed, since 2000, on Palestinian students from Gaza studying in the…
Can somebody please tell Israel that she can’t occupy and be a democracy?
How long must we play this charade? The announcement of upcoming “proximity talks” between Israel and the Palestinians raises a number of questions – what exactly will they talk about? What else can be renewed in the peace process, where everything seems to have been tried while peace remains elusive? What trick does George Mitchell,…
Washington Post considers the argument for racial division in Palestine
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on another corporate media moment of ignorance and bias: The headline of this Washington Post piece today (4/26/10) is certainly not promising: “Sharing a West Bank Highway Proves a Tall Order for Israel, Palestinians” The highway in question was built by the Israeli government on occupied Palestinian territory. Since 2000,…
What is happening in the West Bank away from clueless journalist’s eyes
Day in and day out the sight of armed Israeli soldiers in the West Bank protecting settlers and destroying Palestinian land, all illegal under international law, continues. Most of the world’s media refuses to show these images. Poor, little Israel must be protected. Joseph Dana, an American Jew living in Israel, continues to blog about…
Obama is like Hitler for some West Bank settlers
Crazy rightist Jews burn effigies of Barack Obama in the West Bank. The interview between a reporter and a settler is instructive: Rino Tzror: Hello to Guy Varon, our correspondent in the territories. So they started to distribute effigies and pictures of Obama? Guy Varon: After we have seen right-wing activists burning pictures of Saddam,…
Watch the Zionist gate-keepers, Nick Clegg
Here’s how corporate and Zionist smearing works. British Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg is surging in the polls and this makes the old hacks, who can only imagine a two-party reality, nervous. Besides, anybody that dares challenge Israel and the US is clearly beyond the pale. For the record, Clegg is hardly some radical (for…
South Africa gives Israel a few handy tips about race
A country with a dark past reminds the Jewish state that its behaviour is worthy of a dictatorship: Israel’s Prevention of Infiltration Order 1650 caused the South African government to have “taken note, with the greatest concern,” over a policy a statement called a “violation of an individual’s human rights.” Moreover, the statement said, the…