Advertisements In my latest piece for Babylon Times, hosted by Souciant, I use a recent piece by Jeffrey Goldberg to examine how it is that some ostensible two-state, anti-settlement, so-called “pro-Israel” types seriously distort the daily realities life under Israeli occupation for Palestinians, particularly on the West Bank.Continue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for Babylon Times is up at Souciant. In it, I examine a YouTube video put out in July by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. The video generated a good deal of controversy, but it seemed to me it was so silly that no one took the timeContinue Reading
Advertisements Virtually no one disputes the fact that the Netanyahu government has become the most isolated in Israel’s history. Whether one supports or opposes Bibi’s policies, and whether or not one thinks the global reaction either worthwhile or unavoidable, the question of how to raise Israel’s standing in the worldContinue Reading
Advertisements Many things are going to be overshadowed at least for a few days by the big news of Osama bin Laden’s death. One of them, though in the headlines in Israel, was already getting less attention than it deserved. The scandalous announcement by Israel’s Minister of Finance, Yuval SteinitzContinue Reading
Advertisements In Part I of this post, we saw the difficulty the State Department spokesman is having explaining how the Obama Administration can even consider vetoing a UN resolution that is so obviously in line with US policy. The letter below was signed by a very impressive list of DCContinue Reading
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