Juan Cole in Salon argues the inevitable: Saeb Erekat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization Steering Committee, said Wednesday that Palestine Authority president Mahmoud Abbas should be frank with the Palestinian people and admit to them that there is no possibility of a two-state solution given continued Israeli colonization of the West Bank. It is…
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Reporting Gaza, says al-Jazeera, must rely on new media
This week in Sydney the Media140 conference took place. One of the sessions was a presentation by Riyaad Minty, head of social media at al-Jazeera. Here’s a blog report about the event by Paul Farrell: Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media at Al Jazeera was the next keynote speaker, and delivered a case study about…
The wall that runs through the Palestinian homeland
A photo essay in Le Monde reflecting the struggle against Israel’s apartheid wall that snakes illegally through the West Bank. In related news, this video shows the protest in Nilin yesterday to mark the 20th anniversary to the fall of the Berlin wall, which has been declared an international day of action against Israel’s barrier.…
Washington Post accuses Arabs of being unreasonable, hold the phone
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting notes the almost daily bias in the American media against the Palestinians (it’s their fault that they dare call for a settlement freeze in the West Bank?): Today’s Washington Post (11/2/09) notes the White House’s apparent softening towards the Israeli side in Mideast negotiations (the headline is “Israel Putting Forth…
How much Zionist love can you handle?
When does “loving” Israel become a mantra for Zionists and little else?
How to kill all those Arab terrorists in one, painless attack
Aluf Benn in Haaretz needs to know whether America loves Israel for its brutal methods of managing “terrorism”. Please Washington, he seems to be saying, please love us. They already do, nearly to breaking point: It would be interesting to know if Obama, who is due to decide on the future of the war in…
Palestinian figure raises the spectre of a one-state struggle
The failure of the US to bridge the major gaps between Israel and the Palestinians (mainly because Washington is in bed with the Jewish state), led senior US-based Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to say this week: The alternative left for Palestinians is to “refocus their attention on the one-state solution where Muslims, Christians and Jews…
The New Yorker on Gaza and yet…
Finally, the New Yorker tackles the Gaza war: Gaza is a place that Israel wishes it could ignore: the territory has long had the highest concentration of poverty, extremism, and hopelessness in the region. Gaza makes a mess of the idealized two-state solution because it is separated from the West Bank, the much larger Palestinian…
When Operation Cast Lead just wasn’t enough
We have been warned. Over to you Haaretz headline: Israel preparing public for a new war in Gaza
Chomsky speaks on Israel’s decline
Moral clarity from a great mind (and the kind of Judaism that thrives on equality, not occupation): Israel’s greatest enemies are those who support its decline into moral degeneration and destruction, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky has told an audience in Dublin. Chomsky, who is retired professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of…