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Blog Entries by Bradley Burston from 09/2010

This Year, Celebrate Rosh Hashana With a De-Occupation Seder

| Posted 09.02.2010 | Religion
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Rosh Hashana, Occupation, Haaretz, Peace Talks, Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Bradley Burston, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas, Middle East Peace, Barack Obama, Religion News

The task of Rosh Hashanah is to help us find our way back to a moral path we have lost. That may be why De-Occupation starts at home.

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Real Men Don't Talk Mideast Peace

| Posted 09.07.2010 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Islam, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Terrorism, Bradley Burston, Avigdor Lieberman, Mideast Peace, Israel, Hamas, Barack Obama, Judaism, World News

A number of Jews and Palestinians are going to make sure a shared Holy Land doesn't happen. Much of it has to do with the need to prove oneself a man, even at the price of thinking like a 12-year-old.

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Yom Kippur, 2010 -- I Plead Guilty

| Posted 09.17.2010 | Religion
Read More: Religion, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yom Kippur, Haaretz, Gaza, Fasting, Israel, Palestine, Atonement, World, Judaism, Yom Kippur 2010, Religion News

May our children see each other for what they are, sisters and brothers. And after all that they've gone through, for their sake if not for ours, inscribe them for a year of peace.

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Breaking Israel to Fix It -- Rightists Rethink Holding the West Bank

| Posted 09.22.2010 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Haaretz, Gaza, West Bank, Benjamin Netanyahu, Charles Krauthammer, Ariel Sharon, Israel, Palestine, Bradley Burston, Likud, Barack Obama, World News

Of late, figures of significance on the right of both the Israeli and American Jewish communities have begun to rethink the future of the settlers' core redoubt: the West Bank.

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Confessions of an Israeli Anti-Settler Bigot

| Posted 09.29.2010 | World
Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Bradley Burston, Palestine, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Rabbi Keith Stern, Ariel, Yitzhak Rabin, Gaza, Haaretz, Middle East, Avigdor Lieberman, East Jerusalem, Israel, Judaism, World News

Settlement has long been, and remains, the fuel for the fire of de-legitimization of Israel, the basis of charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. It undermines the foundation of the idea of a Jewish state.

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