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Related posts: Poll: Obama’s progressive base will support him in getting tough on Israel Despite tough talk on settlements, Obama seems to be continuing flawed Bush plan when it comes to Hamas things are tough all over. Read More »
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Now General Petraeus is ‘dangerous’ (Foxman on the case)
The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman is taking on General David Petraeus for what Foxman calls the “dangerous and counterproductive” linkage that Petraeus made between American support for Israel and the United States’ security. Read More »
What will happen in Bil’in today with the crackdown? Twitter @jvplive
As Rebecca Vilkomerson notes at theonlydemocracy , This week, the Israeli Army declared the villages of Bil’in and Na’alin closed military zones from 8am-8pm on Fridays for the next six months. Read More »
No nation can endure when built on hatred
Writing from Jerusalem on Tuesday as rioting left dozens injured, Bradley Burston said: Hamas has designated this day, in this place, its Day of Rage . Read More »
Goldstone report is Banquo’s ghost of international law conference
The American Society of International Law is featuring just one Goldstone panel during a conference filled with discussion of “International Law in a Time of Change,” a clear reference to the Goldstone effect. Read More »
Berkeley student senate divestment resolution
In case you’re interested, here’s the final text of the Berkeley student senate resolution that passed early this morning: A Bill to In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES Authored By: Emiliano Huet-Vaughn and Tom Pessah Sponsored By: Senators Gaurano , Carlton, Kwon, Oatfield 1. Read More »
Translating Obama, and Netanyahu
President Obama, having dared an unusual show of strength, declined yesterday to reproach Israel for any fault beyond a local violation of decorum. Instead, in his customary manner, he took one step back, one deep breath, and declared : “Israel’s security is sacrosanct.” The dictionary definition of sacrosanct is “most sacred and holy. Read More »
George Bush raised Corrie death with Ariel Sharon
Rabbi Brian Walt has sat next to Cindy and Craig Corrie in a Haifa courtroom during testimony in their civil suit against the Israeli gov’t in the killing of their daughter, Rachel, 7 years ago in Gaza. Read More »
Gen’l Petraeus and the American street
I gather that this Tom Ashbrook show on NPR was remarkably fair this morning, it included Mark Perry, the reporter who broke the Petraeus story–that the general believes Palestinian grievances are endangering Americans in the Middle East–along with the Inevitable Indyk. But check out the comments on this piece. Wow, Americans are aroused. Read More »
Berkeley student senate votes for divestment, 16-4
Apparently the vote took place at 4 in the morning after an endless meeting. Helena Cobban: Alan Dershowitz, eat your heart out, student senate at U.C. Berkeley voted 16-4 last night to “urge the University of California to divest from companies who have supplied the state of Israel with materials used in alleged war crimes. Read More »
This happened today in Palestine
Israelis prevented Palestinians from crossing checkpoint near Qalqilya so that they could get from their homes to school. Palestinians held the classroom at the checkpoint. Read More »
Palestinians should sit down and negotiate, even if Israel is building in E Jerusalem
In the talks that led to the Oslo Accords, which took place without Abdel Shafi’s knowledge, current Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) and Yasser Arafat agreed Read More »
Katrina to Birthright to Gaza–a young Jew’s progress
Morgan Elzey is a young restaurateur and activist in LA. Weiss met him at JFK last December en route to Gaza and Elzey told him about his progress. Convinced that Palestinian solidarity offers young idealistic Jews a way to be engaged in world problems, in a great Jewish tradition, Weiss urged Elzey, at left in Cairo, to write up his story . Read More »
Winds of change took 25 years
Gilad Isaacs, an NYU student who grew up in South Africa, spoke at NYU two weeks ago at an Israeli Apartheid Week event. Lately he posted a version of his speech . Read More »
NPR’s Robert Siegel opens a door I want to go through
Why is Martin Indyk saving Americans, and Netanyahu, too, from Netanyahu’s brother-in-law’s statement that Obama is “anti-semitic”? On NPR tonight, Indyk was interviewed by Robert Siegel, and described Netanyahu’s ” chevra – the people he lives with–” as hardline Zionist rightwing ideologues. Read More »
TNR says it’s Obama who’s endangering Israeli lives
Sober Yossi Klein Halevi (a favorite of Isabel Kershner’s in the New York Times ) writing in the New Republic about the new blood libel, the idea that Israel’s brutal occupation is in any way, shape, fashion or form, endangering American Read More »
Switcheroo at Khalil Gibran school prompts call for Almontaser’s re-appointment
Communities in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy responds to the news that the current principal of the Arab-language public school, Holly Anne Reichert, is stepping down to make way for a principal at another public school to take over the job: Beshir Abdelatiff. Read More »
Special relationship is melting in the sun
Rasmussen poll, reported by Jay Bookman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution : 49 percent of Americans believe that “Israel (should) be required to stop building new settlements in occupied Palestinian territory,” while only 22 percent believe it should not. That represents a strong endorsement of the position taken by the Obama administration. Read More »
Mearsheimer: the lobby can’t hide the fact it is siding with Israel against the US president
John Mearsheimer at LRB says one great thing about the contretemps is that it has forced the lobby out into the open, taking a stand against the US president and still claiming that it is operating in the American interest: Siding with Israel Read More »
Gaza marks 1,000 days of siege
(Photo: Max Ajl) Max Ajl, from the blog Jewbonics , is in Gaza and wrote this brief report: an event on Thursday to commemorate 1000 days of siege, a siege longer than Leningrad’s. The director of the popular committee against the siege spoke and lit the brazier. There were 1000 candles on the ground. Read More »
Yes I am bad for owning the whole loaf but you are just as bad for dreaming you can own it
Did you listen to Ethan Bronner’s multimedia report on the article where you rightly point out that he only called Israelis ? He says that both sides have elements that oppose the two-state solution. And for both it is giving something up, and that for both the dream is the whole pie. Read More »
Bromwich: Hebron must remind Americans of Montgomery
David Bromwich ends a piece at Huffpo with stirringly homely excerpts of letters from Rachel Corrie, as he seeks to place the political struggle for Palestinian rights in an American context. On Hardball on March 9, Chris Matthews in Jerusalem interviewed Ethan Bronner, the New York Times bureau chief. Read More »
I guess John McCain won the last election?
A former member of John McCain’s braintrust, neocon RobertKagan is in the Washington Post to say that Obama’s alienating every other country, not just Israel. This is when my dual loyalty light goes on. Read More »
If you believe in two states, why aren’t you slamming Netanyahu?
People are talking about this inspired attack by Juan Cole on the “burly former Israeli military prison guard at the notorious Ketziot detention camp” — former IDF Corporal Jeffrey Goldberg. Read More »
More Moor on academic boycott
I received several different queries from friends about my recent post on academic boycott. Both Adam Horowitz and Sami Hermez, who has an excellent article about the difference between boycott and censorship at the Electronic Intifada, pointed out Read More »
Where’s Joe Biden?
Has the vice president gone missing? Or is he hiding in a secure undisclosed location? Strong words delivered by Joe Biden during his visit to Israel were widely reported last week. “This is starting to get dangerous for us,” Biden warned his Israeli hosts. Read More »
Lawrence Wright on linkage
Lawrence Wright authored ‘The Looming Tower,’ which is widely regarded as the definitive account of al-Qaeda. The book is called the ‘bible’ by intelligence operatives. Now what does this text say of the fateful triangle (Israel, Palestine and Islamic militancy). Read More »
The linkage fantasy
Israel-supporters in the U.S. know they will lose if the issue is framed as a linkage: Palestinian grievances are endangering our troops. Jeffrey Goldberg does some digging : “I called the White House to ask if Biden actually said this. It would be quite something, of course, if he did.” There’s no problem, man. The press misquoted Biden. Read More »
Who does the ‘Times’ call?
What follows is an abridged version of Times story on East Jerusalem tensions : the said at a news conference … In Jerusalem, Mr. Read More »
Howard Berman: Please– let’s get back to bashing Goldstone!
Ron Klein, a Florida congressman, puts out a statement saying , “I am deeply disappointed that even after the Israeli government apologized, State Department and White House officials have sustained their condemnations against the State of Israel, using harsh terms. Read More »