Advertisements [This piece was originally published at the Meretz USA blog] Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear, as if it needed clarifying, that he is uninterested in finding peace with the Palestinians. He did this by issuing an ultimatum to Fatah and its leader, PA President MahmoudContinue Reading
Advertisements One woman was killed and at least 30 injured in a bomb blast today near the central bus station in Jerusalem. But by now all of you know that. But while I was still gathering data and reports of the incident, I received an e-mail. This message must haveContinue Reading
Advertisements When I read about the horrifying slaughter of five members of the Fogel family, who lived in the settlement of Itamar, I had to ask myself why I reacted the way I did. Was the rage I felt, the intense moral revulsion, due in any way because these wereContinue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for the Meretz USA blog can be read by clicking here. I examine the deeper implications of the appalling video that some IDF soldiers seemed to think was just hilarious when they posted it in YouTube.Continue Reading
Advertisements I very much appreciate President Obama condemning yesterday’s murders of four settlers in the South Hebron Hills. But that condemnation would be an awful lot more meaningful, to myself and to many others I’m sure, if we saw similar outrage in Washington when Israel killed over 700 Palestinian non-combatants in OperationContinue Reading
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