Advertisements In today’s Ha’aretz, Avraham Burg apparently announced the formation of a new party. His description of it: “The party Israel Equality (Shivyon Yisrael ) – with the acronym Shai in Hebrew, gift – will fight for a state that will be a total democracy; everything else will be eitherContinue Reading
Advertisements A section of the Israeli right wing has now graduated from their unabashed opposition to advocating a one-state solution. This is not a passing affectation, I think, but a strategic choice that is gaining support, with good reason. The right-wing idea is built on the fatal flaw that progressiveContinue Reading
Advertisements Over at the Realistic Peace blog, Moshe Yaroni looks at the distasteful letters AIPAC directed members of Congress to send to the President. Just more evidence that politics comes ahead of national interests, but that’s one thing most people, on the left or the right, can agree upon. He alsoContinue Reading
Advertisements Some of my readers here, at least those of you gracious enough to have borne with me despite my lack of recent postings, will be aware that I have left B’Tselem and don’t really know where I’m going next. In the meantime, I hope to be posting more inContinue Reading
Advertisements It’s time to ask the question: what is happening to Israel? While the so-called “mainstream” Jewish-American groups work overtime to deny the frightening direction Israel is taking and screaming to the heavens about the “de-legitimizers,” the Jewish state is losing its democratic identity in large steps. Almost every day,Continue Reading
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