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August 12th, 2011
In two articles from Mondoweiss, Paul Mutter derides and
deplores Netanyahu's ability to manipulate US
money and protesters' gullibility with house-building projects which amount to
a shift from occupation to annexation of the West Bank
August 12th, 2011
Mohamed el Mokhtar cries shame on all of us who allow drought
to decimate the people of the Horn of Africa, but in the new voice of
anti-ruler anger at the Arab ‘feudal sheikhdoms’ and ‘lethargic gerontocracy’
of Saudi Arabia – which could have done so much to assist Palestinians- he
contrasts their moneyed indifference to Israeli energy in rescuing the Falasha
Jews in the 1980s
August 11th, 2011
The arguments put forward by the US and Israel against the
PA both asking for and being granted UN recognition of Palestinian statehood
are utterly specious says Henry Siegman, President of the US/Middle East Project.
Here he refutes their case
August 10th, 2011
'Every rational discussion was smothered in a melange of
sentimental, patriotic, and nationalistic kitsch whipped up with
self-righteousness and victimhood' writes David Grossman, who discovers a fresh
and open togetherness on the J14 march after the post-Occupation years of
silent acquiescence in which one weak group after another was picked off.
August 10th, 2011
To accompany the review of Occupation of the Territories:
Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010 ('Who's the boss here?, this page) we
post an acccount of the weekly sit-ins in Gaza
by prisoners' families. The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled “family visits are
not a basic humanitarian need for Gaza
residents”.
August 10th, 2011
In his new blog, Micah's Paradigm Shift, the British Jew
Robert Cohen interviews a West Bank settler, and finds himself in the fairy-tale
world of Oz with people trying to find their way to a place that feels like
home - unlike the ethnically mixed homes they have left
August 10th, 2011
Arab protests at being de-housed are dismissed as
subverting the Jewish character of the state says Seraj Assi, while the Israeli
housing protesters strain to prevent their cause being widened to include any
factor which questions the character of their state. 2nd post here from blogger
Fatma Emam who is saddened by the hostile Arab reaction to the Israeli
protesters
August 10th, 2011
If a new Knesset bill defining Israel as 'the national home
of the Jewish people' is passed, Israel's Arab and democratic heritage would be
made subservient to Judaic 'tradition' An editorial in Haaretz, followed by a
report by Zvi Bar'el, express their dismay and anger.
August 9th, 2011
The tent city protesters insist that they are
'apoliitical', about the neo-liberal economy and the state-enforced Occupation.
But some sort of movement seems inevitable and Jeff Halper explores where it
might go
August 9th, 2011
One fifth of all members of Congress - more than ever
before - are going to Israel
in the summer recess, thanks to the American Israel Education Foundation. John
Hudson reports on the trip, quoting the delight of the American expat
israelmatzav blog - posted 2nd. Lastly Philip Weiss shows that 'liberals' are
among the biggest donors to Israeli junkets and other causes
August 9th, 2011
Anders Breivik is not a simple brute or nutter but a man
who wrote a long, literate document thus attracting intellectual as well as
news comment. Here Slavoj Žižek looks at the emblematic paradox of using modern
words to focus an old rage on the new enemy, traitorous Muslims and Jews
August 9th, 2011
Ilana Hammerman looks at the published evidence, which the
Israeli middle class won't read, talk about or listen to, on how their army is
controlling the OPT, and what this is doing to their own young people in the
IDF; Asa Winstanley reviews a new book on apartheid in Israeli prisons and how
Shin Bet works in prisons and universities to extend the rule of the security
services
August 8th, 2011
Veteran activist Uri Avnery admires the new social justice
protesters despite, or because of, the carefully observed distance between them
and the political Left. In the end, the massive cost of the Occupation will
have to be be acknowledged
August 8th, 2011
Nadia Hihab is co-director of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian
Policy Network and is on the advisory board of US Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation. The BDS campaign, initiated and led by Palestinian civil society,
is the best alternative to 'a sterile, U.S.-Israeli led process' and a means
for Palestinians to work together. All can support it, she argues, as a means
to Palestinian self-determination
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