from Dar al Hayat Fri, 17 June 2011 Raghida Dergham, Antalya (Turkey) Three men stand at the crossroad of choices this month. Time will judge each of them for the extent of boldness, wisdom, leadership and partnership they show with their people, as they draft their future and the future of their co[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
June 5th, 2011 - 10:55 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Arabs (finally) discover Gandhi
Syrian TV: 14 killed, 225 hurt in Naksa Day border protests By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV LAPPIN 06/05/2011 18:28 IDF does not confirm casualty count, says soldiers firing at infiltrators lower bodies when warnings not heeded; armed men seen on Syrian side of border; protesters set off 4 land mines [...]
June 2nd, 2011 - 9:13 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: French writer passes Libya rebel message to Israel
Will The Arab Spring Bring Peace? AFP – French writer Bernard Henri Levy said he delivered a message on Thursday from Libyan rebel leaders to Israel’s premier saying they would seek diplomatic ties with Israel if they came to power. Levy told AFP he passed on the verbal message from Liby[...]
Yom Hashoah: Roger asks, Were Hitler’s crimes immense enough for you to make an exception for him?
Mon, May 2, 2011 …. Tomorrow is the Jewish holiday, Yom Hashoah .. the day of remembrance of the Holocaust. Because I do not believe in the death penalty, my friend Roger asked this question a few weeks ago: If Hitler had been captured alive, would you have supported executing him? Were his [...]
An attack on a central concept: is Zionism Democracy?
Israel’s resolute occupation of Palestinians in not just historic Palestine, but in the West Bank and Gaza Strip specifically, can be considered the oldest quasi-dictatorship in the Middle East, Bishara argues [GALLO/GETTY] from Al Jazeera As the conventional wisdom goes – especially in t[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Passover: From Gestapo to West German Spy, Nazi who arrested Anne Frank
“Why pick on me after all these years? I only did my duty. Now I am suspended and I have just bought some new furniture and how am I going to pay for it?” By Tony Paterson in Berlin, The Independent The Gestapo officer who arrested the Holocaust victim Anne Frank was one of hundreds [&he[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 2:57 pm § in Politics
Peace Through Coffee?
from Jerusalem Post Latest data says Ramallah and the adjacent town of Al-Bireh that it has utterly engulfed have more than 120 coffee shops and some 300 restaurants, with 50 new diners opening in 2010 alone. “When I started, I was competing with three to four other places, now I compete with [...]
Part I: Two States: Palestine and Israel … by Fiat?
US public supports Palestine statehood The Israeli government is so frightened by the prospect of a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it is considering withdrawing its troops from the West Bank [Reuters] It becomes clearer every day that Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is terrified b[...]
The Enemy of My Enemy is Not My Friend
from BBC The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) also known as Mojahedin-e Khalq, is considered a terrorist group by the US and Iran. A spokesman for the Iraqi government, said the PMOI would be forced out of its base north of Baghdad, Camp Ashraf, “using all means”, bu[...]
An Israeli Writes About The Importance of The Rule of Law
Ed, Can a democracy make peace when the other side refuses to accept the rule of law? Haaretz discusses the difference in how Israel and Hamas respond to the Goldstone report and of Goldstone’s recent retraction of the finding that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians. Carlo S[...]