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Jennifer Rubin comes up with the neo-con argument for one-state solution
February 25, 2011The Washington Post’s conservative blogger visited the West Bank and returned home convinced Israel should keep it. Many on the left would agree, though not for reasons that would please Rubin For some time now, settler leadership has been undertaking a PR campaign, designed to improve the way that Jews living in the [...]
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Netanyahu gets back at Lieberman, NGO probe dies in Knesset
February 22, 2011The Knesset delivered some good news yesterday: The decision to form an investigative committee that would look into the work of leftwing NGOs has lost momentum and is likely not to be implemented. It seems that the second vote, necessary to confirm the probe, won’t even take place. The NGO’s investigative committee won a [...]
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Novelist Ian McEwan plays for both teams in East Jerusalem
February 19, 2011The British author visited the Sheikh Jarrah protest – but also intends to receive the Jerusalem Prize for Literature from the patron of the city’s settlers, mayor Nir Barkat The celebrated British author Ian McEwan joined today the weekly protest in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families have been evacuated from their homes [...]
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Crazy responses in Israeli media to Thomas Friedman’s op-ed
February 16, 2011In his latest column, New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman attacks Jerusalem’s response to the Egyptian revolution. Friedman’s bluntly expressed opinions were the catalyst for a torrent of angry comments. “Court Jew” was just one of the expressions used For about a year now, Thomas Friedman has been driving Israelis crazy. Ever [...]
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Please, no more peace plans
February 14, 2011The Israeli leadership wants to hold on to the status-quo, the Palestinian leadership is split, and the US discovers the limits of its power. Under these circumstances, the problem is not the lack of solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the absence of political forces that could implement them. A response to Bernard Avishai [...]
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Would the incoming Israeli Chief of Staff favor an attack on Iran?
February 6, 2011Major General Benny Gantz spoke frequently on Iran, but his position regarding the military option remains unclear After an unprecedented series of events, consisting of a public dispute between the Defense Minister and the departing Chief of Staff and two canceled appointments to replace the latter, it seems that the IDF [...]
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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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No, Egyptian uprising won’t hurt the peace process
February 1, 2011(simply because there is no such thing) Yesterday, Politico’s Laura Rozen posted this tweet: On Isr/Egypt, official tells me while Egypt unrest demos status quo unstable, makes Isr hunker down, less willing to “take risks for peace. Hey, wasn’t that the Israeli reply to’
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Israelis are not hostile to the Egyptian revolution, they are simply anxious
January 30, 2011There are many Israeli positions that should make one angry these days. The reaction to the Egyptian uprising is not one of them This weekend, several writers on +972 Magazine claimed that Israelis are generally hostile to the Egyptian revolution and that they prefer to side with President Hosni Mubarak (examples here, here and here). [...]
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The Goldstone Report: more important than you think
January 27, 2011With each passing day, the publication of the Goldstone Report seems like a key event in shaping the political and diplomatic trends that currently dominate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new book ‘
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“Anybody, if they want to buy a ticket, should be allowed to do so”
January 26, 2011Following my proposal for artists playing in Israel to insist on Palestinian attendance at their gigs, one of the reader posted this video clip, showing Dusty Springfield’s 1964 refusal to perform in front of segregated audiences in South Africa. According to her Wikipedia page, Springfield ended up being expelled from the country. She did, however, outlive Apartheid.
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Condi Rice on the Naqba: “Bad things happen to people all the time”
January 25, 2011Like the Wikileaks documents, the Palestine Papers are interesting not just because of their revelations (some of these scoops were known before), but also, and perhaps even mostly, because of the tone and style of statesmen behind closed doors. This nugget is from the Guardian: PA leaders repeatedly threatened to abandon attempts to [...]
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Selling tickets to Macy Gray in Ramallah?
January 22, 2011The debate regarding the cultural boycott of Israel is framed around the wrong questions So Macy Gray decided to perform in Tel Aviv. After sharing her hesitation with her fans on Facebook, Gray apparently made up her mind not to cancel the gigs she planned to have in Israel. One of her [...]
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New army version on Bil’in death contradicts previous claims
January 20, 2011Yesterday evening, just in time to make the eight o’clock news, the IDF has presented another “official” version for the death of Bi’lin’s Jawahar Abu-Rahmah during a protest against the security barrier near her village on December 31st. This is from Haaretz: Abu Rahmah, 36, was taken to the hospital after she inhaled [...]
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Following the storm: Netanyahu is at the mercy of Lieberman
January 18, 2011Ehud Barak has ended his days as an independent politician, the peace process is officially over, and the fate of Netanyahu’s government is now at the hands of Israel Beitenu’s leader, Avigdor Lieberman. A few notes following the political earthquake at the Knesset 1. Ehud Barak. The former leader of Labor effectively joined [...]