Encountering Peace: Is my Zionist dream dead? By Gershon Baskin, 07/02/2012 21:13 I am really quite concerned. I see a great disaster about to unfold. I simply cannot understand why people are not shouting “don’t let this happen!” Where is the prime minister? Where are all of the Zionist leaders? Where is the world …
Category: Israel
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Jul 04 2012
Thinking like Shamir
It was Zionism itself that Israel buried this week. Let it go. By Bradley Burston, Jul.03, 2012 1:36 PM It’s time to take a lesson from the successful. It’s time to begin thinking like Yitzhak Shamir. When he died this week, the first several people I spoke with, knowledgeable people who closely follow politics …
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Jun 29 2012
A terrifying possibility
Why Is Sheldon Adelson Donating Millions to Romney? NYT: “His Disgust for a Two-state Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” By David Harris-Gershon, June 25th, 2012 During the height of Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign, the Sheldon-Adelson-backed Republican candidate caused waves when he called the Palestinians an “invented people” and declared that the Palestinian Authority was …
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Jun 28 2012
Citizen pilgrim
On Human Identity By Richard Falk, 20:23 06/27/2012 Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or worse, an anti-Semite. These attacks on my characterwere hurtful even as I felt their …
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Jun 28 2012
In law or in practice
Children in Military Custody – new report by leading UK lawyers By Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine), 28 Jun 2012 On 26 June a new report on children held in Israeli military detention was published in London. The report – Children in military custody – was produced by a delegation of UK lawyers …
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Jun 26 2012
Modern-day version of maktab thani
Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06 Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after five years, was Nahr al-Bared still a closed military zone? For the past five years, all …
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Jun 18 2012
Boom, boom!
Tourists venture to West Bank to ‘shoot terrorists’ By Akiva Novick, 06.18.12, 13:31 Summer camp, warfare style: Like a frozen turkey plunged into boiling oil, a group of American tourists descend from an air-conditioned van into the scorching heat of the West Bank. Flashing smiles all around, they march into Caliber 3, a local …
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