Israel

Israel and the blockade

Excellent concise informative post by Juan Cole on Israel, the blockade of Gaza, the Palestinians, the state of Gazan children’s health, and the need for Palestinians citizenship in a soveregin state.

Israel after the massacre at sea

Thoughts on Israel’s future after the latest outrageous behaviour.

More on the U.S. Israel dustup around Biden’s visit

An excellent post on the London Review bog site details some of the diplomatic and political machinery now in play between the U.S. and Israel.

Israel disses the Obama administration again

The U.S., Israel and the Palestenians and ‘as if’ peace negotiations in light of the Israeli Biden slap in the face .

Analysis of Israel’s new government coalition

From Former Member of Knesset Uri Avneri, leader of Gush Shalom and Israel’s most respected peace activist, published in Tikkun. A sample from the article: “As far as the most important matter is concerned, there is complete unanimity.  Liberman, Netanyahu, Barak, Ellie Yishai of Shas and Danny Hershkovitz of the  “Jewish Home” party are in total [...]

Glimmers of hope regarding American-Israeli relations observed

Given the paucity of glimmers of hope regarding Israel’s barbaric conduct and the usually impenetrable fortress of blind American support for such behavior, one wishes to set off bells and whistles when even a slight parting of the bleakness appears as in Glenn Greenwald’s Salon column of March 9. Greenwald’s column draws attention to Roger [...]