Olmert disengages from "disengagement"
Ehem, in case you didn't know. Disengagement, was the first step toward annexation of the West Bank settlements and imprisonment of the Palestinians behind the wall.. Olmert has made it official with...
View ArticleOn the Pursuit of Happiness Clearly Defined by Arendt
is a term carefully defined and explained by Hannah Arendt (evil is banal)in her book On Revolution. Essentially it is this. And since my response to a former diary that is expiring was so long I...
View Article"We are returning to the sane Israel." updated
Ha'aretz reports: "Some 250 Peace Now activists on Thursday demonstrated on a road north of the West Bank city of Hebron over alleged ongoing violence exhibited by settlers against a Palestinian family...
View Article"A free hand to kill"
As you may recall, the brains heading up the British Israel Communications and Research Centre claimed in a recent(ish) letter to the Guardian that the death of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana (pictured...
View ArticleTea, Bread, Sheep and a Donkey
Members of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine live and work alongside the people of Hebron and the South Hebron hills, trying to prevent abuse of Palestinian civilians by their non-violent...
View ArticlePogrom in the West Bank
Yesterday, responding to the forced removal of over 200 settlers from a building they illegally occupied in Hebron, Israeli settlers launched a riot both in Hebron and across the West Bank, injuring at...
View ArticleWest Bank Stories
Palestinians in the West Bank are bracing themselves for more violence by extremist Israeli settlers after their eviction from a Palestinian-owned house in the town of Hebron. The settlers say that...
View Article"60 Minutes" story on Israel/Palestine
Anyone see the amazing Bob Simon report on 60 Minutes last night? It was the best report I've ever seen on this subject. They discuss the apartheid conditions on the West Bank and the possible end of...
View ArticleA ripple in the matrix.
60 Minutes did a segment on the West Bank. John Caruso thinks it was accidentally beamed in from Mars. How did this segment make it on an American broadcast? Who is responsible for this? Have they...
View ArticleDeath Threats Can Be Tax-Deductible! J Street takes action
ain't america wonderful? In the Safra Synagogue on the Upper East Side in New York just a few nights ago (March 18th), a leader of the Israeli Settler's group "Women in Green" called for the...
View ArticleSettlers call Obama "Jew-hating anti-Semite"
Those Scott Roeders of Israeli public life, the leadership of the west bank settler movement, are not happy with Barack Obama. Religious and ethnic fanatics that they are, they fear and hate anyone...
View ArticleReligious Settlers militant ideology has permeated Israel's IDF
The Times of London reports Peace Now charges that Israel's IDF is no longer capable of removing unauthorized illegal outposts from the occupied West Bank due to an increase of militant ideologues in...
View ArticleTime for Brutal Honesty I/P Style (Frustrated and Mad)
This should get me nailed to the wall by both sides - but, I am sick of the posturing. I was reading Aldous' diary and the comments therein. It is fascinating to watch the different sides direct fire...
View ArticlePresident Obama says JUST SAY "NO" (I/P)
Welly, Welly, Welly.... it has been a busy weekend down the rabbit hole that is Israel / Palestine (btw I can't wait to see how Johnny Depp does the Mad Hatter in the new Tim Burton "Alice in...
View ArticleIsraeli Settlers Set Fire to Palestinian Fields
I have not seen this diaried yet and feel it's important for someone who supports Israel (which I do) to face reality about stories like this one: RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Palestinian official says more...
View ArticleDaily News from the West Bank
Below are a few news clips from a variety of sources. All stories carry today's dateline, and all focus on the West Bank. My purpose in pulling together this news is both to update the reader on...
View ArticleIsrael: Settlers' Spin
The Israeli settlement issue has been dominating the headlines in both Arab and Israeli media. It has also been the single biggest source of friction between the United States and Israel since Benjamin...
View ArticleThe President Sends one High and Deep in the M.E. (I/P)
Generally, I figure that when it comes to I/P if the extreme's hate something or do their best to dissuade one of something - it is probably right thing. President Obama has been getting it from the...
View ArticleYom Kippur & the Middle East: Our misdeeds and theirs
During these days between Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur, Jews are called on to reexamine our own actions -- our "missings of the mark." The emphasis is on OUR sins - not those of individuals alone,...
View ArticleIP: Supremes diss Jews-only roads
What? Roads for Jews only? How could this be? Well, if you live in the West Bank (a.k.a., Judea and Samaria), you may drive anywhere you please, if you are a Jew. Palestinians are prohibited from...
View ArticleGruesome Israeli Settler Violence & More
I've been meaning to do a diary forsome time on Shlomo Sand's book, but alas, life has intervened. But in the meantime, I just saw thisa video and it is just horrible, & must be seen;
View ArticleSupport for Palestinian Statehood delegitimating Israel?
This article appeared this morning, and raised questions as to the two state solution. I went on Ha'aretz in English for more direct information and foundanother article which, starting in about the...
View ArticleIsrael Takes Military Action against Palestinian Tomatoes... and other stories
Assorted stories from Occupied Palestine. Just another routine week. File a complaint, they told him... On June 3, an Israeli settler shot Ibrahim Al-Biss and his friend Moataz outside Al-Aroub...
View ArticleDirect Israel Palestinian Talks scheduled? For 9/2?
These articles and this and this one and last but not least this one here and from the Jerusalem Post this one and this have all appeared in the last day or so. If any of this is correct, direct...
View ArticleCreating beauty: My travels through Idaho & Utah
While traveling across South Dakota and Wyoming during the past week, I've become really upset by the way that westward-expanding ranchers and settlers in the 19th century basically used genocide to...
View ArticleThe Settlers: An Injustice That Must Be Addressed
I'm going to put things right on the table for all of you: The issue of the settlers in Palestine must be addressed. No solution for the conflict is possible without taking it to account. The injustice...
View ArticleSettlers attack children, then kill their horse (Warning -- Graphic Photo)
Is there no low to which these religious fanatics will go? On March 16th, settlers attacked a group of children, and killed their horse as they watched. And once again, Israel's government did...
View ArticlePrice Tag - Mans' Inhumanity to Man
On the morning of Tuesday, June 7, 2011 the residents of the Palestinian village of el-Mughayer, in the West Bank, headed to morning prayers at the local mosque. What they found there below the fold.
View ArticleI/P: Time to start thinking through the "Security Agreement."
Those of us who dare to dip into I/P have discussed various elements of the proposed two state police plan, and perhaps now is the time to start thinking through the ramifications of another element...
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Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part I (Contact, 1820-1852)
photo credit: Aaron Huey Cross Posted from Native American Netroots Prior to contact, the Modoc people inhabited an area approximately 5,000 square miles in southern Oregon and the northeastern corner...
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Caroline Glick Cited As One of Israeli American Tipsters for Gates of Vienna...
Islamophobic blogs like Gates of Vienna popular with white supremacists have Israeli American fans who have adopted a hard line pro Israel agenda at odds with US foreign policy. It appears that...
View ArticleIP: More small acts slipping under the IP radar which add up to large issues.
I hate feeling I must diary twice in one day but cheez whiz! Ma'an, a newspaper in I and P, has been busy. This article appeared this morning. And Ha'aretz had this one a few days back. Both of them...
View ArticleTeam Shalom/Progressive Zionist Fry'd Daze
Cross Posted at The Progressive Zionist Welcome to Team Shalom Fry'd Daze. Fry'd Daze was a long running series dedicated to dialogue in the Middle East. For a while I pulled it, but recently was...
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What Can Palestinians Do When Settlers Attack?
Beitin is a beautiful village on the outskirts of Ramallah and a place where many friends living in St. Louis come from. I have heard so many stories about Beitin, I feel like I know it well. So...
View ArticleIP: On the Amman negotiations, stalling? Why?
The talks scheduled today between I and P have apparently happened, this time without Quartet presence, according to JPost. But the article also said something else which deserves note here. At last...
View ArticleIP: The problem of deferring other issues until Israel and the Palestinians...
One of the common arguments made by current Israeli governments as to various areas of conduct complained of by international folk is their consistent contention that the problem named cannot be...
View ArticleIP: International visits to Gaza and West Bank in the offing.
As most readers who have the patience for IP at all are aware, a week or so back the United Nations Human Rights Council approved an investigation of settlements and other conditions in Occupied...
View ArticleI/P: Things not looking good for two state resolution.
I and what I suspect are many others have been watching much and saying little about the hoped for two state solution for some time now, as nothing much suggesting much happened, and then more of it...
View ArticleIP: "Settlers" and 'terrorism' in the same phrase, by US! and Israel! Wow.
The news dump day for Israeli papers is often Sunday here in the US, where their AM edition is many hours earlier than ours. Oh my, what an interesting dump this morning. First, two papers, Ma'an...
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Hebron: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
I recently read Haggai Matar’s recent piece in 972 mag about Hebron. Just another settlement harassment and assault on a population that can’t defend itself at all, especially in the light of the...
View ArticleIP: Uniformed Israeli Paratroopers on Temple Mount.
I have a bad feeling about this. It reminds me too much of Ariel Sharon's visit and what followed it, given the highly wired tension around these issues right nowj and in the Old City of Jerusalem....
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UPDATE ISRAEL: Zionist Union offers joint-government to Kulanu. Stability...
From last Wednesday:Contrary to corporate MSM: Israel's Kulanu "All Of Us" Party will decide the election Little did I know on Wednesday how close that title fit to post-election events. UPDATE: Bibi...
View ArticleHillary Alarmed by Attacks on... Israelis
In the wake of more than 130 settler attacks against Palestinians in one week, the aerial bombing deaths of Nour Hassan, a young pregnant mother and her two-year-old daughter, the summary executions of...
View ArticleOUR MANIFEST DESTINY
Listen to these all to familiar words from the mouths of some politicians these days. They make the hair stand up on the back of my neck when I hear them. “This is not who we are: we’re better than...
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