Ari Shavit in Haaretz: Few people are close to the prime minister, but among the few who are, some say he has indeed undergone a turnabout. Israel’s might, not the settlements or the settlers, is his top priority. Therefore, had there been a proposal on the table assuring Israel’s security in exchange for a painful…
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Jewish students in Canada won’t accept Zionist censorship
Aaron Lakoff is a communications student at Concordia University in Canada and a member of Not In Our Name Concordia, a campus-based anti-Zionist Jewish group: The Israel/Palestine debate has been a controversial topic at Concordia in recent years. However, there is a point when discussion on a controversial issue can be used as a pretext…
Jerusalem 2050
This project sounds worthwhile (though if anybody knows good reasons why it isn’t, let me know): Jerusalem 2050 is a visionary and problem-solving project, jointly sponsored by MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the Center for International Studies with the participation of Palestinian and Israeli scholars, activists, business leaders, youth and others. We…
The lack of gas in Gaza causes suffering for all
The latest news about Gaza from Gisha’s wonderful new blog, Gaza Gateway: The severe shortage of cooking gas in the Gaza Strip has attracted scant media and public attention over the past two months. Generally, since the closure was imposed in 2007, the average monthly amount of cooking gas that Israel allows into the Strip…
Extremists should not be welcome in Australia
The following statement was released yesterday by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Sector union: Kevin Rudd is set to host an Israeli delegation to Australia led by Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. Shalom is one of the most senior members of the extreme right wing Israeli political party, Likud, forming part of the…
From Dublin to Gaza
Irish film-maker Dearbhla Glynn visited Gaza in May and produced these powerful images:
Sri Lanka could teach a thing or ten to Israel
Israel, having trouble managing your Palestinian “problem”? Not to worry, copy Sri Lanka and simply murder civilians in the name of “fighting terrorism”. The face of modern Zionism (courtesy of the Jerusalem Post, of course): The Sri Lankans had more or less lived with this horror since 1983. Then 9/11 happened and a new dynamic,…
Some handy tips to break the Middle East impasse
Rami G. Khouri writes in Lebanon’s Daily Star with a suggestion to break the Middle East impasse: I have a suggestion. The Netanyahu move does not meet the legitimate demands of the Palestinians, the Obama administration, Security Council resolutions or international law and conventions, yet we should not merely dismiss it and remain diplomatically frozen.…
Palestinians without rights under the nose of Western backing
Former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni, a woman unafraid to take her country to task for its human rights abuses, unloads on her 81st birthday to Ynet: “We are a nefarious people. What we are doing in the West Bank is worse than all the pogroms done to the Jews.” But she qualified her statement by…
Not all Jews want never-ending war against Gaza
Congratulations to these Jewish brothers and sisters standing up for human rights, not simply Zionist loyalty: British Zionist activists reacted on Tuesday with “bemusement” to a letter cosigned by hundreds of pro-Palestinian Jewish compatriots urging Gordon Brown to adopt the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its operation last winter in…