Does Lieberman Ever Listen To Himself?
Avigdor Lieberman is an idiot. Ma’an News has a piece up describing Lieberman’s call to sever ties with the Palestinian Authority. This, of course, comes after the Israeli Foreign Minister called for the abrogation of the Oslo Accords. Apparently Lieberman does not understand that the PA and the Oslo Accords have been the most effective tools of the Israeli … Read more
Killing Off a Dead Olso, Con’t
Israeli National Security Adviser Ya’akov Amidror is leading a team charged with determining an appropriate response to the Palestinian UN bid in September and has joined Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in considering an abrogation of the Oslo Accords that were signed in the 1993 and 1995. The Oslo Accords were meant to provide a basis for … Read more
Is Lieberman Palestine’s Greatest Ally?
Lieberman – the face of the progressive extreme right in Israel? Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman epitomizes the extremist, quasi-racist (and occasionally overtly racist) fringe of Israeli politics that envisions complete Israeli control over the entire West Bank and the completion of ‘Greater Israel.’ He has called for: Israeli Arabs to pledge allegiance not to … Read more
Bad Week for Palestinians and Those Who Support their Struggle
I am sorry to those who regularly read the blog and my entries for my lack of entries. As you know I was injured 2 weeks ago and have had little ability to write, let alone research, what to write about. I was shuffling through the news articles before going to bed at 3am (part … Read more
Is the Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation as threatening as the Israeli Government makes it out to be?
With the buzzing news surrounding the reconciliation deal struck between Fatah and Hamas there seems to be the usual nay-sayers to a just peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. These nay-sayers include the US Congress, Lieberman, Netanyahu, and Barak, or simply the US and Israeli governments. After the signing of the unity agreement Lieberman pronounced … Read more
Concern For the Future of Israel
There have been several published pieces lately that have given reason to worry about the future of the state of Israel. As someone who believes the biggest threat to Israel is the decay of democracy caused by an unending and ever-expanding occupation and repression of Palestinians, I find it disturbing that Israel is actively pushing … Read more
Rejecting the Existence of Palestinians
The Christian Science Monitor somehow allowed Dashiell Shapiro to publish an opinion piece and, in doing so, paid homage to Golda Meir and the supposedly deceased Israeli meme that there are no Palestinian people. One would think that today, the Palestinian people would no longer need to be subjected the denial of their existence. The last politician of … Read more
Marching Further into the Abyss
Yesterday, Ehud Barak – the leader of the supposed centrist party in Israel that was meant to act as a counter to the strong rightist parties in Netanyahu’s coalition – announced the end of the Labor party, the end of the peace process and the end of democratic procedures within Israel’s government. Barak, who had … Read more
More Ways to Keep Black People Out of Denver
Yesterday I penned a piece about the email system in place in the Israeli town of Karmiel that can be used to prevent Arabs from moving to the town. Essentially, you hear about the sale of a house to an Arab, write an email and magical pressures come from above to squash the sale: Can … Read more
Israel’s Evolution
Michael Brull has a great article about the future of Israel on ABC (published yesterday). Brull questions the moral character of the modern Israeli political structure and laments on how Israel has strayed from what the country was meant to be and how far it is from what it should be. The article starts with … Read more
Chris Keeler
Chris Whitman
