Jonathan Cook, Middle East Report – 13 February 2013 Shortly before polling day in Israel’s January general election, the Arab League issued a statement urging Israel’s large Palestinian minority, a fifth of the country’s population, to turn out en masse to vote. The League’s unprecedented intervention — reportedly at the instigation of the League’s Palestinian delegation — [...]
The Southern Man and his Cosmopolitan Ghetto: Making Sense of Yair Lapid and the Israeli Center Former anchorman and middle-class darling Yair Lapid stunned the Israeli political scene in the recent elections. His party, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) won 19 seats, second in size only to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign [...]
The United Nations General Assembly recognised Palestine as a “nonmember state”. But it may very well be that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has already missed the boat. With the help of graphic designer, Michal Vexler, we have created an infograph to illustrate and explain how demographic changes within the West Bank obstruct the possibility of the two-state solution. [...]
Stuart Littlewood And after the ceasefire And it will be business as usual for Western leaders and their Zionist friends In 2009 when Israel’s 22-day blitzkrieg was over, nearly 1,400 Palestinians had been wiped off the planet of whom four-fifths were civilians and 350 children, and over 5,000 wounded. Israel had destroyed or damaged 58,000 homes, 280 [...]
Stuart Littlewood If the world grants the Palestinian people their human rights there will surely be peace in the Middle East. – Pastor Manuel This seems a very good moment, on the sixth day of Operation Cast Lead Mk2, to remember what happened when Israel unleashed its last blitzkrieg on Gaza — Operation Cast Lead [...]
Most Palestinian analysts maintain that the Oslo agreements are to blame for the collapse of the Palestinian economy. Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank observed a one-day strike, effectively shutting down cities. This, as Al Jazeera reported, was the culmination of several days of protests [...]
Has David Miliband changed his spots? Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been providing vital help to vulnerable Palestinian communities ever since the Sabra and Shatila massacre 30 years ago. Eyebrows therefore shot up when MAP announced that former foreign secretary David Miliband will be speaking at its Annual Gala Fundraising Dinner tomorrow (Thursday) held [...]
Perpetual Peace Last year I gave the Israeli artist Amir Nave an old Hebrew copy of Immanuel Kant’s Perpetual Peace, which I teach every so often in my Introduction to Political Theory class. He took the book, flipped through it, ripped out the title page, turned it upside down, signed it and returned it to me. Nave, an [...]
A new law requiring Israel to label products made beyond the Green Line will empower civil society. Be’er-Sheva, Israel - South Africa’s recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label “Made in Israel” is extremely significant – much more so than the European Union’s [...]
Neve Gordon My friend’s wife was accepted to a PhD program at McGill University in Montreal. They decided to move to Canada with their two children at about the same time that I was offered a fellowship at Princeton and decided to move with my family to New Jersey for a year. Hoping to rent [...]