When the Israelis killed the two-state “solution”

Well, there goes the neighbourhood: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Thursday that all of Jerusalem would always remain under Israeli sovereignty, in comments likely to spark consternation among Palestinians who hope to make the city the capital of a future state. “United Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. Jerusalem was always ours and will always be ours.…

They’ll turn the gun on their trainers one day soon

Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, U.S. security coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, recently explained his role as training Palestinians to essentially manage the Zionist occupation. This is clearly the “vision” Barack Obama imagines for a supposedly independent Palestinian state. Now a profile in Israel’s largest newspaper worries that Dayton thinks very differently to the…

Yes, we don’t trust your own whitewash

Human Rights Watch demands Israel behave like a civilised nation and allow an international investigation into its actions in Gaza: US President Barack Obama should endorse the comprehensive UN investigation, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, into violations of international law during the recent Gaza conflict, and should urge Israel, when he meets today with Prime…

So leave then

Fear works: Some 23 percent of Israelis would consider leaving the country if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University. This quote is the key: “The findings are worrying because they reflect an exaggerated and unnecessary fear,” Prof. David Menashri,…

Who is bombing whom here?

The Angry Arab: So Zionist and Saudi media are insisting that people of the world should feel threatened by the Iranian missile test. Saudi media (echoing as usual the Zionist handlers) are citing “experts” (typically in Zionist bastions in the West) to the effect that the missile test is a threat “not only to Israel.”…

Because it’s racist and should be opposed

A typical kind of column in the Boston Globe that blames the Arabs for the Middle East crisis. Why can’t those annoying Arabs just accept the scraps offered by Israel, asks Jeff Jacoby? A great response was posted on the paper’s website: Dear Jeff Jacoby, Your column in today’s Boston Globe defending Israel and titled,…

Will the true realists please stand up?

This week’s meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu has caused a flurry of thoughts, most of which simply rehashed old talking points. Witness the Jewish Forward’s editorial that continues yapping about time running out for the two-state solution and the concepts of a “Jewish state and a democracy.” Perhaps someone should remind the paper…

We can break your balls and nobody cares

Torture in Israel continues. A modern Jewish tradition? Following an item published on 15 May on the NRG website, B’Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel have called on the chief of staff and the judge advocate general to order a Military Police investigation. The item, “A Blow is Sometimes an Integral Part…

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