Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni, a woman unafraid to take her country to task for its human rights abuses, unloads on her 81st birthday to Ynet: “We are a nefarious people. What we are doing in the West Bank is worse than all the pogroms done to the Jews.” But she qualified her statement by saying [...]
Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Tony Greenstein has spotted that the zionists' hypocrisy over the real antisemitism that it has always colluded with, isn't confined to its bogus memorialising of the holocaust. It has now been extended to the Jewish victims of Israel's friends in the old Argentinian Galtieri regime. Tony's post is headed Argentina – Proof that Israel is no Refuge from Anti-Semitism : Post 1945 there was one...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Shulamit Aloni is such a lover of Zion. And to think we once cheek-pecked each other before a Pesach break when I worked in the Knesset. She now is of the opinion that we Israelis "are a nefarious people". From the story: Former Meretz leader tells Ynet on 81st birthday that 'what we do in West Bank is worse than all pogroms' Former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni told Ynet on her 81st birthday...
Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Aloni. 'We too have blood on hands' Photo: Ofer Amram Former Meretz leader tells Ynet on 81st birthday that 'what we do in West Bank is worse than all pogroms' Naama Lanir 11.29.09, 16:08 / Israel News Former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni told Ynet on her 81st birthday Sunday that she was dissatisfied with the condition of the State of Israel. "It's hard for me to say
Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Yossi Beilin the head of a party Israel that couldn’t garner more than three seats in Knesset, is nonetheless loved in France. He just received the French Legion of Honour. So a failure in his own country, Beilin can now tell himself how great he is because people who haven’t suffered as a result of [...]
Soccer Dad (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Yossi Beilin the head of a party Israel that couldn't garner more than three seats in Knesset, is nonetheless loved in France. He just received the French Legion of Honour. So a failure in his own country, Beilin can now tell himself how great he is because people who haven't suffered as a result of his policies have given him an award. But it's not enough for Beilin to tell himself how great he is,...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"And the left? In this spiritual context no left - which can only exist in a discourse of equality - can have air to breathe. So when the ethos "shut your mouth because we'll punish you" rules everywhere, Peace Now was bound to disappear and be reduced to paid ads in the newspaper, with no foot soldiers. Meretz was bound to evaporate, and Labor's doves were bound to crumble. This left...
France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unwilling to make sufficient concessions on Jewish settlement building to stop the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, one of the Israeli architects of the deal that created it said on Wednesday. "Netanyahu is set to announce in the coming days that he will accept a construction freeze in the West Bank settlements for 10 months but will exclude...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
POMED 11/16/09 Declaring a Palestinian State? This weekend, Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saab Erekat announced Palestinians will seek recognition as an independent statefrom the U.N. Security Council. However, it is unlikely independence will be declared in the short-term. According to Erekat, “we are going to have to prepare for this well and to hold political and diplomatic talks […]...
Israelated (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The ,municipalityis doing all itpossibly can to wipe out Jaffa's Palestinian character. That includes changing the existing Arabic names of streetsand naming new streets after rabbis, zionist heroes and more. The Jaffa list as well as the Meretz representatives in the municipal council (Omar Siksik and Ahmad Mashrawi) have been actively demanding the municipality names a new street (connecting between...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
When "pro-Israel" means "opposed to mainstream Israelis" IT LOOKS like the House is preparing a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report on possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Apparently the old AIPAC-instilled reflex to instinctively support the priorities of right-wing Israeli political parties hasn't vanished from Congress, even though the new pro-peace Israel lobby, J Street,...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The Nation profiles the shifts in young, Jewish identity. Israel right or wrong is so yesterday’s news: Rachel Jones spent the past week in Washington, DC, at the first annual conference for the new progressive Jewish organization J Street. She was passing out literature for Meretz USA, an American nonprofit that supports the platform of one [...]
Jewschool (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The following is a guest post from Moriel Rothman I think I know what J Street needs to be. I was having a conversation with Moises Salinas, the Vice President of Meretz USA, following a phenomenal presentation (by Ron Skolnik, Aziz abu Sarah, Ralph Hexter, Susannah Heschel and Elizabeth Wendt) on the deeply problematic and unhelpful [...]
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Israel – Three Meretz MKs, filed a bill to establish a committee to determine criteria for certification for ritual circumcisers (mohelim). According to the bill, the committee that would define the Circumcision Law, would be jointly made up of officials from the Ministry of Health and the Chief Rabbinate. Violators of the law could face up to three [...]
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
A recent piece in Israeli paper Ma’ariv by Avshalom Vilan, a former Meretz Knesset member, articulates the growing fear of some Israelis that apartheid in the occupied territories is simply unsustainable: Regrettably, however, it is more important to the Israeli leadership to safeguard the coalition than to safeguard the state. Instead of grabbing the bull [...]
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