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Posted on November 29, 2015 by sarahbenton
Marc Ellis has pushed the ethical tradition to a
point where many Jews fear to go, but have to in good conscience. For Ellis,
says Robert Cohen, ‘the Jewish “Progressives” duck the difficult questions. Was
Zionism flawed from the very beginning? Was Israel born in sin? Have we
liberated ourselves at the expense of another people whose needs we must now
forever suppress?’
Posted in commentary, News Tagged jews of conscience, marc h ellis, prophetic tradition
Posted on November 28, 2015 by sarahbenton
Most French and Belgian Jews are still in their home
countries. But according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) they should all
be hot-footing it to Israel
before they are engulfed by a rising tide of antisemitism. Yes, there are
serious antisemitic attacks in both countries and pro-Palestinian politics can
veer into antisemitism. But, unmentioned by the JTA, France
in particular fought a bitter war against the independence movements in N. Africa during which ‘Islam’ gained its political
identity. The French Dieudonné is exploiting this in his antisemitic
entertainments.
Posted in commentary, history, News Tagged belgian antisemitism, dieudonne, french antisemitism, role of jta
Posted on November 28, 2015 by sarahbenton
Here are another eight contributions from Palestinian
political intellectuals. They share the quest – for an authentic national
leadership – but not the answers which range from rejuvenating the PLO to
bypassing it altogether. They are responding to the challenge of young people,
but mostly don’t think this constitutes a national leadership as it is too
narrow in support and strategy.
Posted in News Tagged palestinian political parties, palestinian youth
Posted on November 28, 2015 by sarahbenton
Al Shabaka rounds up eight Palestinian political
intellectuals to debate the PLO: should Palestinians create a wholly new body
better able to represent Palestinians and advance the Palestinian cause, thus
countering the despair they feel? Or would losing the PLO mean losing the only
body with international recognition? Can it be reformed into a leadership body
without corruption? Al Shabaka starts the debate.
Posted in News Tagged Palestinian leadership, palestinian reform, PLO
Posted on November 27, 2015 by sarahbenton
In a further entrenchment of martial law in the West
Bank, IDF military commanders have been given the power to close down (lock in)
any Palestinian village they deem shelters a security risk.
Posted in News Tagged collective punishment, martial law, palestinian villages
Posted on November 27, 2015 by sarahbenton
The settler youth who assaulted Rabbi Ascherman of
Rabbis for Human Rights told Channel 10 it would not be legal to kill human
rights activists but “We need to deter them. They need to be made fearful. They
need to receive a blow.” Surprisingly he has been remanded to house arrest. But
then he has far-right, Honenu member Itamar Ben Gvir to plead his case.
Posted in history, News Tagged arik ascherman, fogel family, rhr
Posted on November 27, 2015 by sarahbenton
A petition is circulating for the Palestinian poet,
Ashraf Fayadh, born in Saudi
Arabia, but a citizen of no land. He has
been in prison since January 2014 when he was charged by the religious police
with “insulting the Godly self and having long hair”. The initial sentence was
four years in prison and 800 lashes. The prosecutor appealed and the death
sentence was imposed which is now being appealed. As a stateless person, like
many Palestinians, he has no government to intervene with the Saudi
authorities. Sign the petition.
Posted in News Tagged ashraf fayadh, capital punishment, petition, saudi arabia
Posted on November 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Amos Harel, Haaretz military correspondent, reports
that military intelligence thinks Palestinian unrest in the West
Bank is escalating and that increasing the controls, which already
Palestinians find humiliating and time-wasting, will only add to the tension.
The government is ignoring military advice, and the far-right want an absolute
security clamp-down.
Posted in commentary Tagged divided government, knife intifada, security controls
Posted on November 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Contrary to the emphasis of this report by Robert
Swift , polls show that the vast majority of Palestinians (82% -91%) do not
support ISIL or want it to operate in their territory. The notion that the
reverse is true comes from Israel
whose leaders wish to portray the country as a victim of ISIL, for obvious
reasons.
Posted in News Tagged hasbara, isil, palestinian polls
Posted on November 26, 2015 by sarahbenton
Uri Savir talks to unnamed sources in Palestinian
security and in the EU about how PA forces will be trained to manage the new
security threats in the MidEast. Netanyahu
declares that Israel will
maintain security control over the West Bank –
an unacceptable affront to Palestinians who say the main source of violence is
the Occupation and resistance to it.
Posted in News Tagged end occupation, security palestine, terrorist attacks
Posted on November 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
Some are quick to declare that Islam is at fault for
those who kill in the name of Islam. That IS perhaps their view of what Islam
commands . But religions are a great medley of different ideas, stories,
examples. And what of the mass killers produced by white, once-Christian
cultures? What do they invoke? Usually a grievance for their loss of status in
a world where their white maleness should have made them masters.
Posted in News Tagged isil, mass killers and religion, timothy mcveigh
Posted on November 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
In a bitter diatribe, primarily directed at what he
sees as the all-powerful USA,
Ramzy Baroud mourns the wreckage caused by western intervention and its
encouragement of Daesh which fans out to perpetuate the unending cycle of
death, violence and insanity.
Posted in News Tagged cycle of violence, daesh, iraq, western intervention
Posted on November 25, 2015 by sarahbenton
Nouriel Roubini provides an alarming analysis of the
‘arc of instability’ stretching from the Maghreb to Afghanistan, in its wake failed
states, a mass of refugees and the spread of jihadism. Diverting the $trillions
from bombing into building economies and infrastructure is the only hope.
Posted in Analysis, commentary Tagged jihadism, maghreb, oil supply
Posted on November 24, 2015 by sarahbenton
Rogel Alpher responds to the repeated Israeli calls
for all French Jews to go to Israel No, he says. ‘Stay in France. Fight
the just war – the one there is no choice but to fight. France does not
live by the sword, but uses it in order to live. Here, life is sacrificed on
the altar of the sacredness of the land
of Israel. This is
idolatry.’
Posted in News Tagged european jews, french jews
Posted on November 24, 2015 by sarahbenton
This ‘Analysis’ by JPost writers takes Netanyahu to
task for being unable to distinguish between Islamic groups and regarding them
all as posing an existential threat to Israel. The writers regard NGOs and
lawyers as for more of a threat.
Posted in News Tagged Islamism, jihadism, muslim brotherhood
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