Any aid pledged to Gaza today is like promising forty acres and a mule to still captive slaves--generosity abounds in such scenarios.
We want Israel to remain a bipartisan issue and an issue that does not divide generations.
Netanyahu's speech marked both the definitive end and a symbolic return to the beginning of the two-state solution as that hapless notion has been peddled since the Oslo Accords of 1993-95.
An IDF officer allegedly orders one of his soldiers to shoot a bound, blind-folded Palestinian detainee at close range.
We know our decision won't get us too many friends in Israel, even among progressives. But we have to do what seems right to us, and hope the message gets through.
McKinney should be released immediately and the medicine and food and clothing she was trying to bring to the besieged and brutalized civilians of the Gaza Strip should be delivered.
Netanyahu may believe that it would be nice to hold on to the West Bank. But in his brain he knows that maintaining Israel's friendship with the United States is infinitely nicer.
The crucial conflict is not between Israel and Palestine. It's between peace and violence. Our government should condemn all violence -- including, for the first time, Israeli violence.
West Bank settlements were built to be explicit, intentional, physical, literal obstacles to any peace process that would include ceding West Bank land to Palestinians.
This blockade is so extensive that the Israeli government even treats paper and crayons as "security hazards."
It is high time for the Obama administration to send US government officials to Gaza to figure out the mechanisms for getting the $300 million the US has allocated for reconstruction in Gaza to the people of Gaza.
In the Lemon Tree, Riklis provides if not a critical voice, then an empathetic one -- one that often gets overlooked when the political discourse gets overheated.
Not only are some of the ideas coming out of Gaza extremely creative, but they also present a modern twist on working with indigenous knowledge and the environment.
Hey, I'm working with the folks at LendForPeace.org, they're a microfinance group working exclusively with small business on the West Bank, in ...
Sunshine Jewish patriots who back Israel when convenient will be pitted against those who stand with Israel even when it means losing their invitation to the White House Chanuka party.
There is little question that the failure of Camp David could have been avoided had Bill Clinton used his considerable leverage to halt the settlement expansion at the start of the peace process.
A CODEPINK delegation has requested the Israeli police and military investigate the brutality used by their forces on peaceful, non-violent protesters.
It was with enormous pleasure that I watched CODEPINK build a playground in Gaza, where children are spared the ravages of war to be as they should be: happy, joyous and free.
That one Zionist would be me, but I know that I'm not alone. Take President Obama: he sounded like another unrepentant Zionist in Cairo this week. Z...
An American friend emailed me to ask "What's Israel's/your take on Obama's remarks in Cairo?" I had to smile, because if there is one thing that has...
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This is tragic. But it is the invariable result when a society trains its youngest children on guns and how to fight. When a society lauds and supports having teens become suicide terrorists and commit suicide by blowing up as many innocents as possible, their youth become very skewed. Many schools in the West Bank and Gaza are named after suicide terrorists, their clergy and media extol the virtues of suicide terrorism, and their politicians use kids as pawns in the war. Hamas often uses kids as human shields hoping they will die and can be held up to the international media. Now this kid drew a toy gun on a soldier in a war zone and he reacted the way anyone would. The Palestinian government and clergy owes this family a big apology.
Hmm. And the Israelis? The Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian child, & it's the Palestinian governments fault? Please.
Speaking of terrorists the Israelis voted a couple of terrorists to Prime Minister.
Speaking of how you raise your kids to embrace terrorism:
http://djiin.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/israel_bombs_girls.jpg
Hmm....funny how the IDF has no problem with shooting right through those human shields.
Finally, someone on the HP admits that the Palestinians attack the Israelis from behind innocent women and children. Thanks Friendly Atheist. I agree with you. The use of Mosques, Children, Schools, and hospitals as launching places for attacks on Israel is a crime.
thank you for posting this!
little prove that hope is still alive.
Now let's listen to what Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad has to say: http://www.governmentalityblog.com/my_weblog/2009/07/building-palestine-tom-friedman-palestinian-pm-salam-fayyad-at-aspen-ideas-festival.html
There is also a website available (http://www.cinemajenin.com/cj/index.php/en) with background information on "Heart of Jenin" and also the related project "Cinema Jenin".
This proves once again, race is a social construct. Under the skin, and within, we are all the same. BUT, that social construct is a bitch to destroy.
Until the colour of a man's skins means no more than the colour of his eyes, we have to have war, Robert Nesta Marley.
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