Advertisements Some interesting things happening in the background of the launch of the direct talks today… JTA is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to recognize the Palestinian claim to the land alongside the Jewish one. That’s JTA’s headline, anyway. The article itself indicates something rather different. It cites Bibi’sContinue Reading
Advertisements Recently, Norway announced that a major Israeli company and a subsidiary were to be excluded from its national wealth fund’s investment list. The reasons were past activity in building settlements in the West Bank and working on construction of the Separation Barrier. Before I go into what this meansContinue Reading
Advertisements I weigh in on the controversy over some Israeli performers’ refusal to perform in thee settlement of Ariel. Click here to read the piece at MeretzUSA’s blog.Continue Reading
Advertisements A video from 2001 is making the internet rounds these days, one that shows current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talking to a settler widow who had just lost her husband to a Palestinian attack at the beginning of the second intifada. In the video, Bibi says (in Hebrew,Continue Reading
Advertisements The spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office held a webcast today. Mark Regev, who is expert at talking with the media and is specifically geared toward English-speaking audiences, spent half an hour answering questions that had been submitted through Facebook. If Israel is smart, they’ll have Regev doContinue Reading
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