Posted on November 8, 2015 by sarahbenton
Tempting as it is to close one’s eyes to the current
bloodshed in Palestine-Israel, these events are peculiarly personal, usually
initiated by a single young Palestinian who is immediately shot dead by
anonymous Israeli armed forces. Here are the latest lists from PCHR and the
Jewish Virtual Library.
Posted in Document Tagged knife intifada, named victims
Posted on November 8, 2015 by sarahbenton
An influential article in Foreign Affairs by Nathan
Sachs argues that Netanyahu does have a strategy – it is to wait for an
opportune moment for peace moves. Lara Friedman of Americans for Peace Now
disagrees: Israeli politicians are not waiting but actively building blocks to
prevent the possibility of peace with Palestinians.
Posted in Analysis Tagged settlements, strategic conservatism
Posted on November 7, 2015 by sarahbenton
Israel’s secret services, Shin Bet, Mossad, have been
equally feared and admired. They have not, before, been ignored by Israel’s
governments. They are today. Netanyahu has chosen to treat Palestinians as a permanent
threat to which the only answer is military repression. JJ Goldberg’s very
gloomy analysis.
Posted in News Tagged balfour declaration, iron wall, jabotinsky, military force
Posted on November 6, 2015 by sarahbenton
In a sort of guerrilla warfare, Israeli soldiers
shoot dead any Palestinian whom they think looks suspicious, and the small
number of Palestinian fighters stab, or car-ram any Israeli Jews they can.
Killers on both sides are glorified – the ‘terminator’ of the IDF – and the
Palestinian ‘martyrs’, for the stabbers invariably die.
Posted in News Tagged corporal t, kfir brigade, knife intifada
Posted on November 6, 2015 by sarahbenton
If PM Netanyahu had a reputation for negotiating one
might sympathise: who would he negotiate with during the current unrest? But
punishment and military force have always been his choice and he is now using
them against the young stone-throwers. Laws passed this year against
stone-throwers provide for a minimum of 3, and a maximum of 20, years in
prison. Bassem Tamimi meanwhile explains why he has turned to non-violent
action.
Posted in commentary, News Tagged stone-throwing, tamimis
Posted on November 6, 2015 by sarahbenton
It’s an ancient debate; does change come when those
in power act or when the powerless take things into their own hands (the two
are related)? Ben Caspit reports this debate at a cabinet security briefing and
pursues it in an interview about the baby boomers with right-wing immigration
minister Ze’ev Elkin.
Posted in commentary, history Tagged elkin ze'ev, palestinian demographics
Posted on November 5, 2015 by sarahbenton
A UN official visits Hebron, the current centre of the violent
hostility between young Palestinians and Israeli armed forces and settlers. He
reports ‘a complete generation has lost hope in peace’. More than 25 of about
75 Palestinians shot dead have come from Hebron.
Palestine’s biggest city has been flooded by Israel’s
soldiers, weaponry and checkpoints. The residents live in a state of fear.
Posted in commentary, history, News Tagged checkpoints, hebron, un mepp
Posted on November 5, 2015 by sarahbenton
Child labour is common across Asia as it was in Britain until
the raising of the school-leaving age. Settlements are different only in that
if the settlers had stayed in Israel
proper they would not be allowed to use child labour or the range of dangerous
pesticides and sexual assault the Palestinian workers are exposed to. Reports
from Human Rights Watch and DCI-P.
Posted in News Tagged child labour, settlements
Posted on November 5, 2015 by sarahbenton
According to Barak RAvid the EC is keeping its
guidelines so secret that few people know what they are despite desperate
efforts by Israel’s
European embassies to find out. They are due to be published on November 11th. Israel’s
opposition to them will range from likening them to Nazi actions to the harm
they will do to Palestinian workers.
Posted in News Tagged eu guidelines, Jordan valley, settlement products
Posted on November 4, 2015 by sarahbenton
If there is evidence, rather than supposition, that a
few Palestinians stab people because of incitement on Facebook the government
did not put it forward before embarking on a new bill against incitement. And
20,000 Israelis have joined a class action against Facebook for allowing
terrorist incitement. Anything rather than believe that those they rule hate
them for their rule – and what would they think if a class action were brought
for the many anti-Muslim and anti-Arab pages on social media?
Posted in News Tagged facebook, social media, terrorist incitement
Posted on November 4, 2015 by sarahbenton
The Al Aqsa/Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif compound has
long been the centre of violent conflict, overtly between Israeli forces and
Palestinians, more covertly between different Palestinian factions and Jordan.
Akiva Eldar says that Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement’s northern
branch, is now manoeuvring for it to become the dominant Palestinian faction in
charge of the holy site. There are few rational voices in this dispute.
Posted in commentary, history Tagged sheik raed salah, temple mount/haram aal-sharif, uri ariel
Posted on November 3, 2015 by sarahbenton
The violent attacks by individual Palestinians which
began in Jerusalem continue, but in Hebron. By killing the
attackers, armed forces create mass funerals for ‘martyrs’ which thus draw in
more Palestinians.Wanting to associate himself with this resistance Pres. Abbas
has moved this week’s cabinet meeting to Hebron where 25 young people so far
have been shot dead.
Posted in News Tagged checkpoints, funerals, hebron
Posted on November 3, 2015 by sarahbenton
The commemoration of Rabin’s assassination has been a
ceremony of regret, the last serious chance of peace wrought by a famously
inarticulate ex-soldier who saw that military action could not deliver a
settlement writes Avi Shlaim. Ian Black is less sure, quoting a Palestinian who
says this regret is wishful thinking. Rabin only wanted to tame the PLO.
Posted in News Tagged rabin assassination, rabin memorial
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