The Posters
“Why tear down the Kidnapped posters?”, they ask. The posters are political propaganda and should be treated as such.
Tagged: palestine
President Biden Calls Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas: Read It For Yourself
With the latest escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raging on, President Biden had calls w/PM Netanyahu and President Abbas
Latest Israeli-Palestinian Violence Worsening
The latest violence in the never ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at its highest pitch in some time, while the world calls for a cease fire that seems far away.
In Shift, U.S. Says Israeli Settlements in West Bank Do Not Violate International Law
“The Trump administration declared on Monday that the United States does not consider Israeli settlements in the West Bank a violation of international law, reversing four decades of American policy”
The Presidential Power of Printing Passports
When a Supreme Court Justice calls an entire city a “delicate subject,” there’s pretty much only one city he could be talking about. Burt Likko breaks down today’s division-of-powers decision.
Palestine, Part I: Water and Land in the Occupied Territories
Katherine MW explores land use and water rights issues in Palestine.
Helen Thomas is really, really old
John Cole posts this video (an expanded version of the one stirring up all this controversy) of Helen Thomas answering some questions about Israel and journalism: Well, it’s not exactly the most sensitive thing...
One State to Rule Them All?
In the comments to my earlier post on Israel/Palestine, North and Michael Drew got into a very intelligent (and spirited) back and forth. Michael eventually wrote the following (way down in the thread of...
There is No Plan B for Mideast Peace (and Why We Need One)
Stephen Walt thinks that the latest spat between Israel and the US is grounds for bringing back up a topic that very few want to discuss: what plans/solutions/options remain if (and when) the two...
More Voices for a Nonbelligerency Process
Roger Cohen is on board with ending the Peace Process and moving to a de facto ceasefire (though admittedly still pretty awful ) in Israel-Palestine. Money quote:
The Mideast Peace, Make That, Nonbelligerency Process
Rob Malley and Hussein Agha have a very thought-provoking piece in the New York Review of Books (h/t Marc Lynch) concerning the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In effect, they argue that the peace process is...
In which I reveal my Loyalist sympathies
Via Spencer Ackerman is George Gilder’s pretty reprehensible argument in favor of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories: [KATHRYN JEAN] LOPEZ: What do you mean these wretched refugees benefited from Israel? GILDER: The key period...
Peace in the Middle East
Well, not exactly, but if you want to set down that cynicism for a moment, this could be the beginning of something perhaps sort of resembling a peace…
One way forward for the West Bank
by max socol In the bowels of ED Kain’s most recent Israel prophecy, there’s a (pleasantly civil) debate swirling around the security implications of a West Bank withdrawal. As I mentioned there, it reminded...
The Madman of Tehran
Moses Maimonides, the famous Jewish physician and theologian of Medieval Cordoba, had a tendency to refer to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad as “the madman.” Maimonides had reasons abundant to use this term. The Jews...
Trapped
Via Andrew, Chris Hitchens has some harsh words for Israeli settlers in the West Bank: Peering over the horrible pile of Palestinian civilian casualties that has immediately resulted, it’s fairly easy to see where...
The Un-American Conservative
Noah Pollock is in rare form in this Commentary Post – utilizing all the tired, typical old strawmen and red herrings against “paleos” and the unabashedly critical conservative voices at the American Conservative magazine...
Israel, Alone
There is something remarkable and frightening about the fact that Avigdor Lieberman’s Party, Yisrael Beiteinu, came in third in Israel’s recent parliamentary elections, gaining 15 seats in the Knesset, only 13 fewer than Tipi...
Tough Love
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, it is the settlements more than anything else that prevent a two-state solution from being realized. Whereas the Palestinians have no true guiding authority to end, once and...
Policy and Dissent
Max Socol is unhappy with our initial foray into the Israel/Palestine debate: Moral arguments concerning Israel and Palestine may be of incidental interest (i.e., did Israel commit war crimes in Gaza? Who is to...
