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Haaretz’s publisher: US president can’t act against Israeli Apartheid
December 9, 2011Haaretz’s publisher Amos Schocken had a very strong op-ed this weekend titled “The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy.” Schocken is referring to the settlers’ ideology as “promoting Apartheid” and accuses all Israeli governments, except Rabin’s during Oslo and Sharon’s during the disengagement, of playing along. Schocken has also something to say about [...] Promised Land
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Haaretz’s publisher: US president can’t act against Israeli Apartheid
December 5, 2011Haaretz’s publisher Amos Schocken had a very strong op-ed this weekend titled “The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy.” Schocken is referring to the settlers’ ideology as “promoting Apartheid” and accuses all Israeli governments, except Rabin’s during Oslo and Sharon’s during the disengagement, of playing along. Schocken has also something to say about [...] Promised Land
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Israeli Diplomats Complain Foreign Ministry Abandoned Them During Siege, Mossad Agents Were In Cairo Embassy
September 20, 2011As they return to Israel, according to a story in Yediot Achronot, diplomats and their families who escaped the siege against the Israeli embassy in Cairo last week are washing their dirty laundry in public concerning their displeasure with their treatment by the foreign ministry: “While the riots raged in Cairo, Jerusalem abandoned us.” They are claiming [...]
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J14 and the rift between Israeli and international activists
September 8, 2011Former allies in fight against occupation are battling over the meaning of the tent protest. Can the relationship be rescued, and should it be? The tent protest, also known as J14, already had an effect on many groups in Israeli society, forcing them to re-examine their political positions and alliances. And while [...] Promised Land
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Glenn Beck impunes Israeli protestors for seeking social justice
August 17, 2011After making “social justice” his sworn enemy in America, Glenn Beck is now turning to help the Jews purge these “Marxist code words” from the land of his Lord and Savior too. Beck on Israel’s largest citizen mobilization in a generation: “They are a group of Leftists that want to take down Netanyahu’s government and [...]
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Arad Exposed Secret U.S. Agreement to Jump-Start Israeli Civilian Nuclear Power Industry
May 19, 2011Yesterday, I reported a story from Yediot that claimed Uzi Arad had given a U.S. diplomat a copy of the secret Lindenstraus report on the second Lebanon war. Turns out, there were two accurate claims in the report–that it involved the U.S. and a secret report. But the rest was wrong. Today, a different story [...]
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Idea of an Israeli attack on Iran losing popularity?
May 13, 2011Mossad head dismisses thoughts of a military strike on Tehran’s nuclear facility as “the most stupid idea I ever heard” and even Defense Minister Barak sounds less confrontational than ever Last summer, American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg published a cover piece in the Atlantic which claimed that Israel all but made up its mind to [...] [...]
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The Israeli incitement problem: A personal look at a children’s book
April 1, 2011Israeli leaders and advocacy groups love to complain about Palestinian incitement, but militaristic and nationalistic indoctrination is all too common in Israel itself. Some personal reflection, following a mail from an outraged parent When I was a kid, I loved Danni Din stories. Their hero was wonder-kid Danni Din, which became the worlds’ only invisible [...]
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University of Pittsburgh Israeli Propaganda War Rages On
March 11, 2011Students for Justice in Palestine produced a video of their rude, immature protest of an Israeli speaker at the University of Pittsburgh. Their video was riddled with inaccuracies, out-of-context quotes and a general disregard for character or respect (not to mention shoddy camera work and even worse editing). This is their video, but edited with [...]
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Settlers Call for Palestinian Expulsion, Palestinians Call for Jewish Expulsion
February 26, 2011In a game of tit for tat, battling Israeli Jewish and Palestinian groups have called for forced expulsion of their opposite number from their native lands. Aryeh Eldad, a radical settler leader and Israeli MK has published an ad in Haaretz which calls for Jordan’s King Abdullah to accept the millions of Palestinians living within [...]
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Suleiman: Israels Pick for President
February 8, 2011It should help Egyptian interim strongman Omar Suleiman’s prospects of getting the nod to take over permanently for his mentor, Mubarak, after Egyptians read the glowing things Israeli defense ministry officials reported to U.S. diplomats in this Wikileaks cable, which resulted from Israeli consultations in Cairo in 2009. Here the defense ministry’s Arab affairs staffer [...]
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Yedioth: IDF Chief of Staff told US Israel has no military option against Iran
February 4, 2011According to reports in the Israeli media, a major reason for the bad blood between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and departing Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi was their differences of the issue of Iran, and especially what Barak saw as an attempt by Ashkenazi to bypass him Did the possibility of an Israeli [...]
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The Neocons Split with Israel Over Egypt
February 3, 2011Well, this is interesting. The neoconservative (or liberal interventionist) wing of American Jewish political thought (not that all neocons are Jewish, God forbid anyone should think that!) is cheering on the revolution in Egypt, while the Israeli government, and much of Israel’s pundit class, is seeing the apocalypse in Mubarak’s apparent downfall. Writing in The [...]
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Israel Decries Militant Arms Caches in Schools, Mosques: Pot Calls Kettle
January 28, 2011You know the drill: Hamas and Hezbollah commit the cowardly and unpardonable sin of hiding weapons caches in sites like schools, hospitals, mosques, ambulances. This not only justifies attacking sacred sites and any collateral damage to civilians (cf. if only they fought fair), it also serves to reinforce the brutal image of the enemy in [...]
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Gaza Doctor Whose Family Was Killed by IDF During Cast Lead on National Speaking Tour
January 15, 2011Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish Interview. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose wife and three daughers were killed by an Israeli tank shell during Operation Cast Lead, is in the midst of a national speaking tour and promoting a new book he’s written on his life and the lessons he’s learned from the tragedy. Though 1,400 were killed in [...]