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EU Threatens Suspending Palestinian Aid for ‘Unilateral Acts,’ U.S. Threatens Suspending $3 Billion in Aid for New Settlement
September 28, 2011Just testing to see if you were awake. No, Hillary Clinton didn’t threaten suspension of $ 3 billion in annual U.S. aid in response to the Israeli announcement that it would build 1,100 news housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo. She should have. But didn’t. But you can bet your Gilo apartment on [...]
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As UN Vote on Palestinian Statehood Approaches, U.S. Careens Toward Irrelevance
September 4, 2011I wasn’t going to write a blog post on this story, but I read one statement from a clueless U.S. official that was so galling I just had to, if only to express my outrage as a U.S. citizen at the increasing outrageousness and irrelevance of U.S. policy concerning Palestine. The NY Times reports that [...]
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IDF’s reply confirms collective punishment of Palestinian village
July 26, 2011On Saturday night, I posted a clip showing IDF forces shooting tear gas and throwing stun grenades at Palestinian houses in the middle of the night. The incident occurred in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, where unarmed protest against the confiscation of the village’s land takes place every Friday. Here is the [...] [...]
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Moti Fogel to Speak With Bereaved Palestinian on Yom HaZikaron
May 3, 2011Moti Fogel, whose older brother Udi was murdered in Itamar with his wife and children a few weeks ago, plans to speak at an alternative commemoration of Israel’s Yom Ha-Zikaron alongside a bereaved Palestinian woman, Siyam Abu Awad. Abu Awad’s brother, Yousef, was killed by IDF fire in 2000 in a village near Hebron. The [...]
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What the Muslim Brotherhood Stands For
January 31, 2011A number of Goldblog readers believe I’ve gone soft on the Muslim Brotherhood. This is not true. I know what the Muslims Brothers believe. And it’s not Unitarianism. I’m just unsure whether the Brotherhood will find its way to power in Egypt in the current situation. But as a public service, here are several statements [...]
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Al-Jazeera Equals Israel
January 25, 2011Sometimes the Middle East is too weird for words. Witness the anti-al-Jazeera demonstration in Ramallah: “Oh Jazeera, you are spies!” chanted men loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. They also lit on fire an Israeli flag with “Al Jazeera” written on it, and wrote in graffiti, “Al-Jazeera are spies,” and “Al-Jazeera equals Israel.” The [...]
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The Peace-Sabotaging Palestine Leaks
January 25, 2011Robert Danin: The documents were apparently provided to Al Jazeera by disgruntled Palestinians who set out to harm the PLO leadership and their peaceful path toward realizing Palestinian national goals. The Qatar-based satellite network has played along, insinuating that the documents show that the Palestinian leadership has proved weak and willing to capitulate to Israeli [...]
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When Israeli Police Become Criminals, Who Protects Citizens?
November 10, 2010In this blog, I focus less on purely internal Israeli politics and more on the bigger picture of Israeli democracy and relations with its Palestinian minority and the Occupation. But Eyal Clyne has written a riveting, tremendously comprehensive report on a massive pattern of corruption and violence by the police against the entire Israeli public. [...]
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New Facebook Images of IDF Abuse During Cast Lead
October 25, 2010On the heels of the exposure of the humiliation of Palestinian detainees by Eden Abergil and Avi Yakobov, Israeli peace activist Assaf Kintzer has a new Facebook gallery of humiliation featuring images of IDF soldiers preening for the camera in Palestinian homes during Operation Cast Lead, as if they were on their summer vacation. Not [...]
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Settler Rabbi: Celebrating Murder of Palestinians Great Mitzvah
October 16, 2010You may remember during the 1991 Iraq war that Saddam launched several SCUDs which hit Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli. There was dancing on the rooftops in the West Bank. Israelis were aghast and used that for years as an indignant proof of the brutishness of the Palestinian national movement. Now picture this, Palestinian [...]
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A Small Glimpse of the Messianic Age
October 12, 2010Palestinian Media Watch reports that a group of settler rabbis visited a mosque that had been the target of an arson attack by other settlers, in order to make amends. What is notable about this visit is not only that it happened at all, but that the Palestinian media covered it in a very positive [...]
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A child is dead: Charles Enderlin on the Al-Durrah incident, 10 years later
October 11, 2010Almost exactly 10 years ago, on the second day of the Second Intifada, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Durrah was shot and killed during an exchange of gunfire between Israeli and Palestinian forces in Gaza. Several other Palestinian children were killed by gunfire that day, and hundreds more in the months and years [...]
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IDF Military Simulation Anticipates Civil Unrest, Concentration Camps After Israeli Palestinian Expulsions
October 9, 2010Kol Yisrael filed a doozy of a report (Hebrew) yesterday noting the completion of a major Israeli military-police exercise simulating the civil unrest that would follow an imagined peace agreement, in which Israel would, according to the Lieberman population transfer plan, expel many of its Palestinian citizens. According to the scenario, Hamas incites tremendous civil [...]
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Aftermath of IDF Belly-Dancing Sex Abuse Video: New Courses on How to Avoid Cyber-Emarrassment
October 7, 2010In the aftermath of the revelation by Israel’s Channel 10 that an IDF soldier sexually abused a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman (see video) by belly-dancing and rubbing his body against her in a suggestive manner, the IDF has reacted in a classical fashion. No, it hasn’t scheduled any sensitivity training for its troops, nor [...]
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Knesset to Demand Loyalty Oath, Ratify Israel as Racist State
October 7, 2010Well, they might just as well do so. And this points to why the entire peace negotiation-settlement freeze is such a mess that it should die a sudden death. Bibi Netanyahu pulled a fast one on his Labor coalition partners, according to Haaretz, and introduced a new Knesset law that would require all citizens to [...]