The essential Gideon Levy in Haaretz wishes Israel would finally come out of the closet and admit what it really is: Tomorrow will mark six months since the prime minister’s foreign policy speech at Bar-Ilan University. It’s now time for another historic speech. In the near future, the prime minister needs to convene the right…
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What reporters are not saying about Palestine
The pressure on media companies and journalists to cover up Israeli crimes is legendary (and something I examined in detail in My Israel Question). A new book by Emma Williams, It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street, is by an English doctor married to a UN official. She recalls her conversations…
A call to arms from a leading West Bank colonist
Pro-settler leader and Women in Green head Nadia Matar: There is nothing more sublime and holier than a national war.
The Palestinian prisoner’s movement may soon lead the country
Khaled al-Azraq is a refugee who lived in Aida refugee Camp (Bethlehem) before being captured and imprisoned by Israel. He has been a political prisoner for the past 20 years and is currently being held in Nafha (Hadarim) prison in southern Palestine. He writes about the poltical education he has gained during his years incarcerated:…
Israeli fascism is not accepted by all
The two sides of the Israel/Palestine divide. On the one hand, a minority of Israelis and Arabs are profoundly disturbed with the country’s decline: International Human Rights Day was marked in Israel for the first time on Friday when thousands of people participated in a human rights march that began in Rabin square in Tel…
Australia uses Israeli tools in its futile Afghan mission
From a state that knows all about bombing innocents to a nation that craves becoming more experienced in the art: Ten new Israeli-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will debut in Afghanistan in the coming weeks, after the Israel Aerospace Industries made the first delivery of the Heron UAV to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)…
The Torah says that Israel is ours
During this Jewish holiday of Chanukah, Aaron Zelinsky, article’s editor at the Yale Law Journal, reminds readers of the Huffington Post what they need to remember about Israel: Israel was an independent state when much of Europe was untamed wilderness. The Maccabee rebellion successfully re-established the independent state of Israel in 160 B.C. This highlights…
Only one Zionist view is acceptable, says Israeli spokesman
Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, on Israel lobby group J Street: …A unique problem in that it not only opposes one policy of one Israeli government, it opposes all policies of all Israeli governments. It’s significantly out of the mainstream…This is not a matter of settlements here [or] there. We understand there…
Jewish settlements are becoming Israel’s serious problem
Two pieces of news this week that signal growing global outrage over Israel’s colonisation program. First, in Germany: Twenty-four former German ambassadors urged the German government to take a harder position against Israel and to rethink its Middle East policy. In letters sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, they ask…
Jew-Z should take a permanent break
The need for some Jews to proudly display every cliched nature of their religious belief is given yet another run with this hip-hop parody sketch. Spare us: