If true, an encouraging start, as settlements are the cancer in the Middle East: The United States has given Israel a six-month deadline to accede to its demand to freeze all construction in West Bank settlements, France’s foreign minister told his Lebanese interlocutors during an official visit to Beirut.
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Don’t bomb Iran, however…
MJ Rosenberg, the supposedly measured, progressive, American Zionist actor: It is simply no longer possible to argue with confidence that Tehran is rational and would accordingly refrain from using a nuclear weapon on Israel. The election fiasco put that argument to rest. Israel’s concerns are legitimate.
Fox News notes West Bank resistance
A Fox News report from the Palestinian town of Bilin, the site of weekly protests against the apartheid wall. The discussion is inane and the host back in the US can’t, like, totally understand that an occupation is taking place, but having such images in the mainstream media is certainly a positive development (thanks to…
The seducing power of powerlessness
Tony Karon reminds us that America can stop any Israeli attack on Iran. If it does not, Obama will have blood on his hands and credibility as low as George W. Bush: The idea that the U.S. can do nothing to stop Israel from attacking Iran, without provocation, in violation of international law and norms,…
A novel way to continue Zionism
Ladies, mad Zionism may just be for you: Have at least 12 children, do not use birth control, and continue having children after 40. This is the formula for overcoming sterility and long-term bachelorhood in the Religious Zionism movement put forth by renowned Rabbi David Batzri. The rabbi also spoke on the issue of abortions.…
Why Australia should do the right thing in the Middle East
Jake Lynch, director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about Israeli criminality: Days after the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was greeted in Israel and thanked for having been “alone in sticking by us” during Operation Cast Lead, the attack on the…
We stand for reason and true balance
An interesting example of an American Congresswomen not blindly following the hardline, AIPAC stance: At a town hall meeting in late June in suburban Maryland, Rep. Donna Edwards’s tight rope walk was on full display. Edwards had come to White Oak Middle School to speak with the gathered crowd about her recent trip to Israel…
How the Palestinians should not be ruled
The reality of the US “vision” for Palestine: Charity, checkpoints and client rulers. No wonder, therefore, that the Palestinian Prime Minister is so warmly welcomed in the US by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman:
Arabs live there, too
A small piece of good news from Israel. Anti-Arab hatred is resisted by at least some citizens: Their operation, which has taken place four times since May, is aimed at countering ultra-nationalist vandals who had defaced the Arabic lettering on Jerusalem’s street signs. Over that vandalism, the new vigilantes, with a more pluralist vision of…
Settlers are just like you and me
A former AIPAC chief lobbyist reveals the plans of hardline Zionist groups in the US. Basically, pity the poor, helpless settlers being threatened with evacuation: If you can’t convince ’em, accuse ’em. That’s the advice from The Israel Project (TIP) for pro-Israel activists answering questions about settlements. Rather than try to defend Israeli settlements, change…