Sometimes, a story about Palestine speaks volumes about the ways in which Washington truly views the region (such as this classic 2008 tale of a US-backed, attempted coup against the ruling Hamas party). This piece in the London Guardian is both utterly unsurprising and brutally frank. This is the West’s vision for a Palestinian future?…
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The Israeli government’s elastic truth over occupation
The invaluable Gaza Gateway blog has new information, challenging the Israeli government’s spin on conditions in the occupied territories: On December 6th, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a newsletter highlighting the economic situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Though there are some miscalculations, for the most part the MFA’s data…
From the crazy file: Beijing has to stop Israel bombing Iran?
If true (and it’s impossible to know with anonymously-sourced stories), Israel is like a wild child that nobody can seemingly control (despite the fact that Washington pays to keep the lights on): U.S. President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian…
East Jerusalem rumblings will resonate far and wide
The ongoing troubles in East Jerusalem around Sheikh Jarrah – the forced removal of Palestinian families and the imposition of fundamentalist, Jewish settlers – are likely to massively explode at some point soon. It’s almost inevitable. Some recent reports about the reality on the ground are necessary. Here’s a story in Haaretz, on the ground…
Exporting bananas from Hebron will rot quickly
The British government is moving slowly to isolate products in the West Bank and label them appropriately. The territories in Palestine are illegally occupied by Jews, it’s as simple as that. Israel is fighting back (which is something the Jewish state is doing a lot of at the moment, when the global battle for legitimacy…
Are we gearing up for Gaza 2?
Another war against Gaza? Here’s what establishment figure Bruce Riedel thinks. His bio speaks for itself: He’s a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Brookings Institution. He advised Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama on the Middle East and South Asia in the National Security Council of the White…
Anti-Zionist computer fried by US-made bullets?
The new notorious tale of the Israelis destroying a nice, Jewish girl’s laptop as she entered from Egypt:
The Israeli reward for Gaza invasion
Comments made by Israeli OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant to IDF soldiers honoured for their “heroism” during Operation Cast Lead: In the tough hours of the trial through fire you bravely and resiliently persevered. You are a lighthouse of morality and values.
Why is Israel afraid of feminists who challenge its militarism?
Israel’s feminist group New Profile has been persecuted for many months over its supposed threat to the Jewish state. Now, in the latest twist, Israel’s Education Minister has barred the group from participating in school debates. Israeli democracy, up close and personal.
Shoulder to shoulder with the Strip
My following article appears in the British magazine New Statesman: Freedom marches have a noble pedigree. Hundreds of thousands marched for racial equality in the 1960s US; among them was Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the march on Washington in 1963. Now, thousands of miles away, the…