As long as in the heart, within, A Jewish soul still yearns, And onward, towards the ends of the east, An eye still gazes toward Zion; Our hope is not yet lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion [...]
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Pro-Israel group’s primer on West Bank settlements shows just how disastrous they are The Israel advocacy ‘David Project’s’ primer on Israeli settlements, aimed at campus activists, avoids inflammatory language, but it cannot escape the glaring conclusion: Settlement policy is Israel’s Achilles heel, and no amount of discussion and review will [...]
jan 282013
Israel’s jihad is mine http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-jihad-is-mine/ JANUARY 10, 2013, 1:35 PM Dr Qanta Ahmed is Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York (Stony Brook). Dr. Ahmed is also a non-fiction author. Her first book, ‘In the Land of Invisible Women’ (Sourcebooks 2008), details her experience of living [...]
Gershon Baskin, Israeli Activist, Explains Truce Plan Given To Ahmed Jabari Before Gaza War www.huffingtonpost.com - Posted: 11/18/2012 1:36 pm EST Updated: 11/18/2012 1:36 pm EST Gershon Baskin is the founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, an NGO and think tank established in 1988 to pursue a two-state [...]
19th June 1967: Israel’s Peace Plan At the end of the Six Day War Israel controlled wide tracts of territory, and someone had to decide what to do with them. Israel’s Cabinet first discussed the question at length on June 18-19th, a week after the war. The minsters decided the [...]
By Yaakov Lozowick I know, I know, I keep saying this blog is dormant, but apparently it isn’t fully dead. Anyone who deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict will probably have come across the nasty four-map series purporting to show how Israel is eliminating Palestine step by step. Recently some fellow in [...]
From Elder of Ziyon: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.nl/2012/09/side-by-side-democratic-and-republican.html I made this as fair as I could, trying to find the best correspondence between respective statements and taking out some of the partisan rhetoric. Democratic Platform Republican Platform Israel President Obama and the Democratic Party maintain an unshakable commitment to Israel’s [...]
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/when-politics-become-an-olympic-sport-1.453919 Palestinian officials are speaking the language of war at the same time that their security forces are acting strongly against anyone who might target Israelis. By Avi Issacharoff | Jul.27, 2012 | 1:21 AM Palestinian Olympics president Jibril Rajoub recently sent a letter to the International Olympics president Jacques [...]
Further reading: Judeophobia Course by Dr. Gustavo Perednik The New Anti-Semitism Essays- Winter 2006 http://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-anti-semitism/ First religion, then race, then what? By Bernard Lewis There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of the [...]
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Terrorist ambush on deck (Photo: IDF Spokesman’s Office) http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4218728,00.html For the first time since deadly raid on Gaza-bound Turkish vessel in 2010, two Navy commandoes wounded on deck of Mavi Marmara recount moments of horror, clash with terrorists Shosh Mula Published: 04.20.12, 19:37 “Damnit, I was hit by a live [...]
See also on MidEastWeb. org: MAPS: Projections of the Israeli offer at Camp David, the Israeli offer to Palestinians in December 2000, the Bridging Proposal of US President Clinton and the Israeli Offer of January 2001 Bill Clinton Reflects on 2000 Camp David Summit (2005) The following [...]
jan 292012
(Esti Ginzburg – modified poster from Kreplach Blog) Understanding the BDS Movement By Avishai D. Don http://www.thecrimson.com Published: Thursday, January 26, 2012 Next weekend, the University of Pennsylvania will host the second national BDS conference, an event that will advocate for the “growing global campaign to boycott, divest from and [...]
