My following article is published on US website Mondoweiss: It is easy to frame the conflict in Israel and Palestine as inherently unique. In many ways it is – decades-old occupation, US-supported racial discrimination and failure of Western journalism to hold the powerful to account – but other struggles have eerie similarities. This year Sri…
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New Delhi grows as a new Israeli partner in crime
Finding friends in new places: Israel’s army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, has left on a trip to India, the first time the head of the Israeli military is visiting the country, the army said on Dec. 6. Ashkenazi left for India late on Dec. 5 as part of a trip to Asia,…
Palestinian prisoners are irrelevant in the Jewish state
Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may soon be released in a prisoner swap with Hamas. The significance for the Israelis? The New York Times provides a revealing quote: Rabbi Weiman-Kelman of Jerusalem said that the controversy over Sergeant Shalit was precisely what made life so different in Israel from his native United States and to…
Swimming in the dirty sea of Gaza
This week’s news from the wonderful blog Gaza Gateway (here’s last week’s edition): It’s become almost common knowledge that on any given day, anywhere from 40-50 million liters of untreated or partially treated sewage flow from Gaza’s sewage treatment plants into the Mediterranean Sea, and an additional 20 million liters seep into the ground, threatening…
Gaza Freedom March less than one month away
The 4 December press release: The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on 31 December is an historic initiative to break the siege that has imprisoned the 1.5 million people who live there. Conceived in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and nonviolent resistance to injustice worldwide, the march will gather…
East Jerusalem is Palestinian, says EU
The EU takes a stand: European Foreign Ministers on Tuesday declared their support for the division of Jerusalem, saying that a way should be found to make Jerusalem the shared capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state. Sweden, which currently holds the EU presidency, presented a draft document last week supporting the division…
Gaza remains an isolated entity
While Israel has imposed an unofficial block on foreign officials entering Gaza – “There is no ban, but we feel at this point that Gaza is a territory being controlled by terrorists and should not be visited by foreign ministers or any high-ranking dignitaries” – let’s not think the Egyptians are any better: Egyptian security…
Bombing and starving Gaza is the only way forward (says settler group)
Pro-settler group Women in Green have a few ideas for Israel to become even more internationally isolated: Dear Friends, Interestingly, the freezing decrees against the Jews in Judea and Samaria came exactly at a time when, in Israel, one should have a huge outcry against the upcoming release of a 1000 terrorists in exchange for…
So, world, what are you going to do about settlement expansion?
Jewish colonists give the finger to the international community: The security cabinet decision to stop construction in the territories did not come as a complete surprise to the settlers of the Etzion and Talmon-Dolev blocs. In a race against time, the settlers managed to obtain construction permits and to lay the foundations for hundreds of…
Iran needs freedom from all of us
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kills dead the hopes of the Iranian democracy movement: “Iran is silencing all sources of information. Using the power of the Internet and of Twitter against the Iranian regime is a tremendous thing that the United States can do.” The prime minister added that the “deep hatred among part of…