Ed. Passover is now a week away. A wish for Passover from Americans for Peace Now. Ed. BRS and I are long term members of PeaceNow and striongly recommend it to all of our friends, Muslims, Jews, Zionists, and Palestinians. Their stand for Peace is why I am so upset by the death of Mer [&helli[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS:Artist Juliano Mer-Khamis Murdered in Jenin Refugee Camp
Juliano Mer-Khamis, co-founder and director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, was brutally gunned down [yesterday] in Jenin by an unknown assailant. [I cannot wrap my mind around] the scope and scale of this horrific event, both for his family (Juliano leaves behind two children, one st[...]
Goldstone Retracts War Crimes Charges Against Israel. Issues with Hamas Still Stand.
Ed. I am not at all surprised to find out that the Goldstone Report was wrong. Hasty investigations are likely to be rushed judgments. “We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war. If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document[...]
April 5th, 2011 - 6:04 am § in America
Farrakhan stands by Gaddafi
Warning that destruction could be on America’s doorstep because it oppresses “God’s chosen people,” Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial Nation of Islam leader, defended Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi today, calling the U.S. action in Libya hypocrisy. Speaking from the pulpit o[...]
March 24th, 2011 - 4:15 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
University Senate Vote Boycotts Ties to Israel
What happens if you have two ideas a strange as Zionism and Faculty Governance? Some call it democracy. Ed. I am a Zionist & a firm believer in faculty governance. I believe that Israel has as much right to exist as France or Egypt and a lot more right to exist than such post colonial [&hellip[...]
Is Saudi Arabia the next to fall?
from Spiegel By Bernhard Zand Translated from German by Christopher Sultan The Arab world to which Abdullah had returned was no longer the same one it had been a few weeks earlier, when he left for New York. When Abdullah arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh last Wednesday, it was no longer just [...]
March 10th, 2011 - 12:22 pm § in Politics
How Israel Can Learn Democracy From Its Neighbors
In a SPIEGEL interview, Israeli historian Tom Segev, 65, discusses the importance of the Arab revolutions for his country, how they could present a chance for Israel to improve its relations with its neighbors and why a revolution in Jordan might help to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. SPIEG[...]
February 16th, 2011 - 11:57 pm § in Uncategorized
Soros on Democracy in Egypt
George Soros from the Washington Post …… In reality, Israel has as much to gain from the spread of democracy in the Middle East as the United States has. But Israel is unlikely to recognize its own best interests because the change is too sudden and carries too many risks. And some U.S[...]
February 2nd, 2011 - 1:52 pm § in America
Letter to Obama from PEACE NOW,
Tom Friedman got it right in today’s New York Times: The huge political changes going on in the Middle East make a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians more urgent than ever. ”I had given up on Netanyahu’s cabinet and urged the U.S. to walk away,” Friedman wrote. [...]