Netanyahu claims Obama is un-American. . Netanyahu is trying here to explain a simple idea … that Jerusalem is the cpait5al of Israel and, therefore Israel has the right o allow its citizens ot build housing there.. both Arabs and Jews. The spin gets lost because Netanyahu is not acknowledgi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Being Bedouin in a Jewish State
The Apartheid Dilemma .. Lessons for the US from Israel’s Bedouins. The anti Zionist left castigates Israel for being an apartheid state. To some extent they are correct. Even leaving aside the harsh issue of the occupied west bank and Gaza, there is a real issue in Israel itself. How do[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]
Is Israel/Palestine Peace Possible?
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Israel Quietly Tends to Syria’s Wounded By ISABEL KERSHNER 8:33 PM ET As the civil war in Syria rages, scores of casualties have been discreetly spirited across the hostile frontier for lifesaving treatment in Israel, an enemy country.[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The limits of Tolerance
From the Detroit Free Press: — Five times a day, loudspeakers at the top of nearly 200 minarets in Jerusalej call to Muslims to pray. They blare before dawn and the wailing cry of the muezzins, or prayer callers, can be heard for miles. Though it is a Middle East tradition that goes back centurie[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: An AVE CHALLENGE
This hospital ship is arriving from what country? a. Iran b. China c. India d. Brazil e. Israel[...]
July 24th, 2014 - 9:12 am § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
A Cogent Arguement AGAINST Israel
AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America’s Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy Stephen M. Walt Professor of International Affairs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (NOTE: I have edited the text to focus on Walt’s impressive argument that Netanyahu has an irredentist on[...]
June 30th, 2014 - 8:00 am § in Uncategorized
UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS: Israel Prepared to Recognize a Kurdish Republic
An Ancient Tie May Change the Middle East. 6/30/2014 Israeli leader calls for independent Kurdistan TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Seizing on the mayhem in Iraq, Israel’s prime minister on Sunday called for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan as part of a broader alliance with moderate fo[...]