This is how the editor of the Jerusalem Post, David Horowitz, views the recent oh so mild pressure from America: By deliberately inflating the [settlement] Ramat Shlomo issue into a public crisis of faith in its ally, the Obama administration has encouraged Israel’s enemies.
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The UN is sadly toothless in the Mid-East
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visiting the Palestinian territories: Let us be clear. All settlement activity is illegal anywhere in occupied territory and must be stopped.
CNN oh so briefly allows debate on US funding for Israel
This clip from CNN (via Mondoweiss) is interesting. Highlighting the undoubted anger in America over recent Israeli actions, it’s a small but significant debate over the amount of money Washington gives the Jewish state every year. Let’s have an open and public debate about the rights and wrongs of this or should Israel just be…
What will it take for the love affair with Israel to cool?
With Israel under intense pressure to wind back its colonial project, the role of dissident Jews is vital, to make the wider community knows that we don’t support the actions of the Jewish state. Jews don’t speak with one voice. It’s important, therefore, that the mainstream media is noticing. Take this piece in today’s Sydney…
Remind us who really likes and backs West Bank colonies
So: Almost half of all U.S. voters believe that Israel should be made to cease all settlement construction as part of a future peace deal with the Palestinians, a Rasmussen Reports poll said on Wednesday. The American institute claimed that a recent poll showed 49% of voters approved of forcing Israel to stop settlement construction,…
FInding a way back to endless talking between Arabs and Israelis
Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz that Washington must back its recent comments to Israel with more than words: Israel – addicted to the occupation, and showing symptoms of overdose and accumulated damage – has finally found a savior to rescue it from its plight. Israel’s redeemer hasn’t just stood idly by for 40 years, but…
Pressure on Israel grows, but what will be the real response?
The latest court gossip about the Israeli/American relationship. Wake me up when the Jewish state actually reverses any of its occupation. The Guardian: King Abdullah of Jordan added to pressure on Israel over its settlements policy today, demanding the international community take firm action over what he called the “red line” of Jerusalem. Abdullah, a…
IDF caught on camera abusing Palestinians (but this is not news)
The Christian Peacemaker Team have released the following video: On the morning of Thursday 7 January 2010, Israeli soldiers attacked and injured Palestinian shepherds from the Musa Rabai family, as they grazed their sheep in Humra valley, near the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. Five members of the family were hospitalized. Before…
The Israel lobby strikes back
Speaking of “journalists” who love Israel like an old wine; juicy if you know where to lick but corrupt to the core. Over to you, Murdoch columnist Greg Sheridan: The Australia-Israel relationship, normally a byword for geostrategic stability and enduring human warmth, has had some stormy passages lately. The use of Australian passports by the…
Yet more separation between West Bank and Gaza
A press release from 15 March: HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual, Gisha – Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, and 11 other Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations petitioned the Supreme Court today against the military and the Minister of Defense, demanding the revocation of an illegal procedure which prevents Palestinians living…