The Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman, Mark Regev, an Australian, tells a leading Australian newspaper that he is upbeat about the prospects of Middle East peace. It is a serious article.
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Locking up Arabs and throwing away the key
B’Tselem and Hamoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual release a report this week that shows the real burden of the Israeli occupation: Under international law, a state may detain a resident of occupied territory without trial to prevent danger only in extremely exceptional cases. Israel, however, holds hundreds of Palestinians for months…
When two-states die, Israel has a slight problem on its hands
A recent piece in Israeli paper Ma’ariv by Avshalom Vilan, a former Meretz Knesset member, articulates the growing fear of some Israelis that apartheid in the occupied territories is simply unsustainable: Regrettably, however, it is more important to the Israeli leadership to safeguard the coalition than to safeguard the state. Instead of grabbing the bull…
How do we survive love in a time of checkpoints?
A love affair between a Palestinian man and woman in the West Bank and Gaza. Life under occupation.
Come see Jewish only roads and enjoy the ride
Roll up for your relaxing holidays, people. Occupation is now a tourist attraction: The West Bank has a reputation for instability, military checkpoints and the ever-present threat of war with Israel. But the UK is to promote the region as a sun, beach and wildlife destination for British tourists. To the uninitiated, the image of…
A profound lack of Jewish imagination
Jews, in case you weren’t sure how to live your life, a Rabbi who moved to Israel tells you how to do it. Daniel… Gordis is a US-born Conservative rabbi: Loving Israel isn’t like an affair. It’s a totally different thing. In a relationship, the person I love and I both matter – more or less…
The truth of the matter in journalism
The following interview is published this week in the literary journal, Quill: SYDNEY-BASED ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN is the author of the best-selling book,… My Israel Question, a controversial discussion of one of the most important issues of our time, as well as… The Blogging Revolution, a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of…
Israeli school-leavers offer a moral lesson
It takes bravery to act this way in militaristic Israel. Bravo: Dozens of graduating high school seniors signed a letter on Monday declaring their refusal to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces. The missive, which was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, stated that…
Israel wants to sell this to the world?
Middle East Report Online on the political power of the fundamentalist Jewish settlers (as ever, the impotence of the Zionist Diaspora to condemn these fanatics is telling): At first glance, it is hard to explain the success of the West Bank settlers. Numerically, excluding the 200,000 settlers in illegally annexed East Jerusalem, they constitute just…