Where Does the U.S.-Iran Deal Leave Israel? Interior of a a Titan missile silo.
Photograph: Eddie Codel No one yet knows what will come of the six-month agreement just signed by Iran and a handful of world powers. Will the deal provide the breathing room needed to reach a comprehensive deal on nuclear weapons? Will it turn out to be, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserts, a “historic mistake”? We’ll have to wait and see. But some things are clear even now. Adam Shatz · The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis: A Death in Jenin · LRB 21 November 2013. On the afternoon of Monday, 4 April 2011, Juliano Mer-Khamis walked out of the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp and got into his old red Citroën.
It was four o’clock, the sun was hot and the street crowded. He put his baby son, Jay, on his lap, placing the boy’s fingers on the steering wheel; the babysitter sat next to them. As he set off, a man in a balaclava came out of an alleyway and told him to stop. He had a gun. The babysitter told Juliano to keep driving, but he stopped. Despite outcry, EU guidelines on settlements will have little effect – HaOkets.
By Eness Elias, Rona Moran, Yara Saadi (Translated from Hebrew by Noam Benishie) Not only do the EU guidelines do very little to affect the occupation economy, they may also bestow legitimization on commercial activities that, despite supposedly taking place within the Green Line, yield huge occupation-born profits.
Contrary to confused press reports, the new European Union guidelines do not entail a boycott of the settlements but in fact reflect a misguided notion of two independent economic systems divided by the 1967 borders. Nevertheless – a precedent was set. According to the new guidelines issued by the EU last month, the various EU bodies can no longer fund or dispense awards and grants to commercial companies, public bodies and organizations working within settlements. But what do these guidelines entail in practice? If you think I’m a racist, then Israel is a racist state - Opinion - Israel News.
Full-spectacle dominance? An analysis of the Israeli state’s attempts to control media images of the 2010 Gaza flotilla. The state of Palestinian discontent: Balfour in 1925 vs. Obama in 2013. Photo Archive: Ziaul Haq in Jordan (1970) by Isa Daudpota's collection. A rare photograph of late Pakistani military ruler Gen Ziaul Haq in Jordan, during what was known as Black September. Zia was posted in Jordan from 1967 to 1970 as a brigadier, where he was involved in training and leading Jordan's military. He commanded their 2nd Division and played a key role in the Black September offensive, which led to the civil war between the Palestinians of Jordan represented by Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the trans-Jordanians represented by the Jordanian Armed Forces led by King Hussein.
Yasir Arafat later said that the Jordanian army killed between 10,000 and 25,000 Palestinians. More conservative estimates put the number between 1,000 and 2,000. Press Advocates: Israeli Report On Al-Dura Affair "Absurd and Unacceptable" Obama's kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza. (updated below) Israel's escalating air attacks on Gaza follow the depressingly familiar pattern that shapes this conflict.
Overwhelming Israeli force slaughters innocent Palestinians, including children, which is preceded (and followed) by far more limited rocket attacks into Israel which kill a much smaller number, rocket attacks which are triggered by various forms of Israeli provocations -- all of which, most crucially, takes place in the context of Israel's 45-year-old brutal occupation of the Palestinians (and, despite a "withdrawal" of troops, that includes Gaza, over which Israel continues to exercise extensive dominion).
The debates over these episodes then follow an equally familiar pattern, strictly adhering to a decades-old script that, by design at this point, goes nowhere. Meanwhile, most US media outlets are petrified of straying too far from pro-Israel orthodoxies. Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening. On the night a ceasefire came into effect ending eight days of Israeli slaughter that left 162 people, the vast majority unarmed civilians, dead in Gaza, Dutch columnist and author Leon de Winter proposed adding chemicals to Gaza’s water supply to sterilize the population.
The website PowNed reported that de Winter “made his proposal for forced eugenics yesterday evening in Amsterdam at a solidarity meeting of Dutch Jews,” and that the speech by de Winter was broadcast this morning by Dutch mainstream and publicly-funded Radio 1. PowNed said: De Winter responded in his speech to the accusations of genocide leveled against Israel, saying that the population of Gaza had only increased over the last few years. “Maybe we should secretly add some means of birth control to Gaza’s drinking water,” De Winter proceeded to propose.The suggestion was met with roaring laughter by the public. Cable News Nonsense: How the Gaza Attacks Were Covered. What explains American public opinion toward Palestine?
I am often asked this question by people who wonder how Americans are not more alarmed at and more sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians. American public opinion toward Palestine, like public opinion toward everything and anything, is shaped largely by the media and the messages the American public is bombarded with. That's why media coverage of the recent bombardment of Gaza was so important. What made it even more important is the fact that it dominated the headlines. Rarely do stories about Palestinians make headlines in the American media. Dividing the West Bank, Deepening a Rift. Academics look at the exact nature of contemporary Israel and Palestine.
The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/PalestineAriella Azoulay and Adi OphirStanford University PressDh114Buy.
State Solutions. The Oslo Illusion. The Oslo Accords weren’t a failure for Israel — they served as a fig leaf to consolidate and deepen its control over Palestinian life.
Hope in Hebron by David Shulman. On March 16, I joined some twenty-five children, aged about eight to thirteen, who had gathered with Palestinian peace activists in a house in Hebron city to write letters to President Obama on the eve of his visit to Jerusalem.
March 16 was the start of the third Selma-to-Montgomery march, led by Martin Luther King, in 1965, a defining moment in the history of the American civil rights movement, and the children—Palestinians who were mostly from the H2 area of Hebron under direct Israeli military control—had come to learn about Martin Luther King and nonviolent resistance. Most of the letters began by begging the US president: “Open Shuhada Street”—once the main thoroughfare of central Hebron, now almost completely barred to Palestinians, its shops bolted, the doors of its houses welded shut by the Israeli army.
Others said simply: “Enough Occupation” or “Free Palestine” or “Down with the Wall.” A visit to Hebron eats into one’s soul. “What’s our dream?” It’s easy to be cynical. U.S. shuns UN debate on Israeli settlers ahead of Obama visit - Diplomacy & Defense. What was at Stake at Brooklyn College? It was an odd spectacle: Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor responsible for a quite a bit of repression against New York activists, was also the one chiding New York politicos for their threats to cut funding for the city’s public colleges.
As he quipped, “If you want to go to a university where the government decides what kind of subjects are fit for discussion, I suggest you apply to a school in North Korea.” Towards a ‘Moral’ Assassination Model. Funeral inside Gaza City Mosque following an Israeli drone attack that killed three people, including a five-year old child, during Operation Pillar of Cloud. Image by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.
The University of Chicago’s Center for International Studies has scheduled an upcoming talk by University of Utah law professor Amos Guiora titled ‘Legitimate Target: A Criteria Based Approach to Targeted Killing.’ Billed as an oration on the criteria of targeted killing, Guiora highlights the ‘moral’ frou-frou of state assassination: Targeted killings represent both the contemporary weapon of choice and, and likely, the weapon of the future. From the perspective of the nation-state, the benefits of targeted killing are clear: aggressive measures against identified targets can be carried out with minimal, if any, risk to soldiers.
Guiora has a distinguished career as a spokesman for Brand Israel in higher education. Question: I mean, you’re taking away a U.S. citizen’s due process. A Melee Grows in Brooklyn - The Conversation. Last month the political-science department at Brooklyn College, which I chair, was asked to either cosponsor or endorse a panel discussion on the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement organized by a student group, Students for Justice in Palestine. We decided to cosponsor the event, which is to take place on Thursday and to feature the philosopher Judith Butler and the Palestinian-rights activist Omar Barghouti. The BDS movement advocates using nonviolent means to pressure Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories. Our decision landed us in a firestorm. Fierce Reaction Greets Study of Alleged Hate in Palestinian Textbooks. Finding That Class Materials Don't Vilify Jews Sparks Fury getty images Textbook Case of Controversy: A new study was supposed to settle the question of whether Palestinian textbooks spur hatred toward Jews and Israel.
Judith Butler's Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS. Editors Note: Despite a campaign to silence them, philosophers Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti spoke at Brooklyn College on Thursday night. Six Israeli security chiefs stun the world. Six Israeli security chiefs stun world. CIA report on Yom Kippur War: Israel had nuclear arsenal. Palestine: How Bad, & Good, Was British Rule? by Avishai Margalit. New book by Tel Aviv historian uncovers "Land of Israel" myths. Shlomo Sand is a history professor at Tel Aviv University. Why the Israeli Elections Were a Victory for the Right. January 23, 2013: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to supporters at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv. Opening the Gate of the Sun. Can we find compassion for Israelis in 2013?
Oded Na’aman: The Checkpoint. One morning, when I was about four years old, I proudly announced from the back seat of my family’s car, “Mother, I want you to know that I am the first kid in my whole kindergarten to think inside my head rather than out loud.” Ahmed Shihab-Eldin: Gaza's Dirty Little Secret Finally Revealed By Reporters. Assassinating The Chance For Calm.