Israel, Palestine and the Rule of Law
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UC Berkeley Law School (on Bancroft Ave., between College and Piedmonts Aves) Booth Auditorium
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Palestinian Pundit links to a story about a historian who claims that the idea of a Jewish people was “invented” and that “most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel.”
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
I recently read Jimmy Carter's excellent book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid . I have to say it didn't tell me very much I didn't already know, apart from details of some of the peace negotiations. I was aware (is anyone still unaware?) that the 1967 Six-Day War was begun by Israel (who after all continually boast of having destroyed their opponents' air forces on the ground), after - one must add...
KABOBfest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Great reading last night: Robert Schaeffer “ Warpaths: The Politics of Partition ” (1990). It makes a convincing argument of why dividing countries into separate states sucks. It discusses the failures of Ireland, Korea, China, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, and Israel-Palestine. I really recommend it, especially as folks like Joe Biden put the partitioning of Iraq up for serious consideration. There's...
Slantright (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Leslie J. Sacks writes an essay that suggests a special canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea will create an energy phenomenon (which includes nuclear energy) that will build a bridge of peace between Arab Muslims (Syria, Jordan and the Arab created Palestine refugees) and Israel. Sacks believes a shared goal of cheap energy and the creation of fresh water (among other things) will be a boon in
Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
–Fisk does some analysis of the recent US vice-presidential debates and the complete lack of understanding of the issues in the Middle East by the media and the public.
Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Key middle-eastern countries (Jordan, Israel, Palestine and -- sometimes -- Syria) share the Jordan River -- a river that is stressed by drought and over-allocation. In this article , a director of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (the region's only multi-national organization) describes EcoPeace's two-pronged strategy to "save" the Jordan River: The first is a program called Good Water Neighbors,...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
I'll be live-blogging the debate tonight -- at home where I've been lounging a bit, still recovering from a night of too many pomegranate martinis with Israel/Palestine peace pusher Daniel Levy and a journalist I can't mention. I had...
normblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Being Eamonn's latest discussion, across at Z Word, of the fifth instalment of Sam Fleischacker's series on Israel-Palestine. (So the numbers don't correspond - 4 to 5. So? Did I ever encourage you to think that the world is a...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Imagine the scene: the United Nations General Assembly meets to discuss a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Heathlander (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
UN report castigates Israeli abuse of journalists: “[UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Richard] Falk says the unfortunate incident [in which award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was tortured by Israeli security officials] “cannot be discounted as an accident or an anomaly involving undisciplined Israeli security personnel.” “The treatment of...
Middle East Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Finding Feinberg's bones When curators wanted to select items from Israel’s State Archive for an exhibit on the country’s 60th anniversary of independence, they had over 45 kms. of stuff stacked on shelves to choose from. Now on display at the Israel Museum --the exhibition is called ”Blue and White Pages: Documenting the History of Israel”-- this final choice of curios and document is marvelously...
Jerusalem News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The veteran terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization is hoping for a double whammy in its favor next month when it hopes Israel will come under the prime ministership of Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni and Americans will put Barack Obama in the White House. This is according to the "Palestinian" so-called foreign minister, Riyad al-Malki, during a conference held at the Israeli Foreign Ministry...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Steven Shamrak From the Covenant of HAMAS. "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The destruction of Israel is the aim!) "The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered:...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
"I think it would be a good idea" (Mahatma Gandhi in reply to a reporter who asked "What do you think of Western Civilization?") "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and in-human to impose the Jews on the Arabs" (Mahatma Gandhi) "I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of...