The Israeli knowledge of and outlook on Palestinians

The following is an excerpt of an article by Miko Peled, born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family. Miko’s grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence: Since my father was a general and I served as a soldier in the IDF terrorist […]

The deepening rift between Israel and Turkey

As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible bloody conflict. Israel’s leading news outlet Ynet, published a detailed comparison between Israel’s and Turkey’s military capacity – it outlines the size of the air force, navy, ground forces in the respective countries. “Turkey”, it says, “possess […]

Obama and the Israeli Lobby

Obama has been surrounded by top advisers — such as Gen. James Jones and David Petraeus — who clearly recognize, and have publicly said, that the festering Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the (obviously accurate) perception in the Muslim world that the U.S. enables Israel, is harmful in numerous ways to U.S. interests in the region. Especially […]

The Jewishness of Israel

Some thoughts by Israeli-born jazz musician Gilad Atzmon, who often explores political themes in his music: One of the main differences between my work and the writings of other humanists within the peace movement is that I am willing to move beyond the political discussion — I dig into the ideological and philosophical roots of […]

Netanyahu tantrum at the White House

Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of Obama’s Mideast speech could hasten the Israeli leader’s political demise. Bibi Netanyahu could have reacted any number of ways to Barack Obama’s mention of the “1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” Let’s say, actually, four ways—embrace, circumspection, suspicion, tantrum. That he chose the last—saying immediately after the Obama speech that he […]

Palestinians plan Day of Rage to protest US veto of UN resolution

Palestinians are planning their own “Day of Rage” to protest the American veto of a United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements, Ma’an News Agency reported a top Fatah official as saying. “[The United States government] are liars who pretend to support democracy and peace. Far from it,” Fatah official and former Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfik […]

The Palestine Papers and the Dream of Statehood

The Palestine Papers are the largest leak of confidential files in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a cache of more than 1,600 documents encompassing the most recent decade of negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, The Palestine Papers make it clear that part of the Palestinian Authority — […]

The Revealing Palestine Papers

The Palestine Papers give the world an unprecedented look inside the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, as well as provide a fly-on-the-wall view of how key senior American officials never take any position to which an Israeli government might object. The series of six documents show just how willing the U.S. is to acquiesce to Israeli demands […]

On the second anniversary of Cast Lead

This week marks the second anniversary of among the most savage criminal slaughters of human life in long memory. The 522-hour indiscriminate carnage, “Cast Lead” that killed 1,417 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 352 of them children, injuring for life more than 5,300, indicts Israel as well as those countries that continue to supply it weapons, diplomatic […]

WikiLeaks on Israel’s embargo plan against Gaza

Israel deliberately maintained the economy of the Gaza strip “on the brink of collapse” without “pushing it over the edge,” a leaked US diplomatic cable from 2008 shows. According to a cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv dated November 3, 2008, Israeli officials told US diplomats of their intention to strangle the economy […]