Category Archives: Palestine

Israeli-Palestinian army, immigration and the long run

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

I wanted to address some of the points Larry made in response to my previous post. After summing up where we are in agreement, Larry makes three arguments and a proposition. He suggests that  “while Israel hasn’t yet offered equality to Israeli … Continue reading →

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Zionism: For Israel, the least of all possible evils

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

It seems to me that Dimi arrived at his “non-Zionism” after reaching the conclusion that the Jewish state was hopelessly bent on dominating the Palestinians – that it always had been, and that even the two-state solution being proposed by the Zionist Left was basically more … Continue reading →

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New episode from “Israel’s Favorite Police Brutality Videos”

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjbTR8Br_w&feature=player_embedded The most laughable thing about the Israeli police assault on Lucas Koerner, the video of which is attracting attention worldwide, is that police say they first asked him to stop “harassing” the Jerusalem Day marchers. The only harassing the 19-year-old Philadelphia Jew was doing was declaiming against … Continue reading →

Posted in Islam, Israel, Judaism, Larry Derfner, Palestine, Uncategorized, Zionism | 21 Comments

A note on Silverstein’s post

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

I read Richard Silverstein’s post on Tikun Olam explaining why he left Israel Reconsidered. I have no problem with anything he wrote except this:  “…I have a rule that if someone is hostile to me in debate I’m hostile in reply. … Continue reading →

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Israel must stop shooting unarmed people

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

“Rattling the Cage,” The Jerusalem Post, June 9, 2011  Here’s a tip on how to deal with these unarmed Palestinians in Syria (or elsewhere) racing fearlessly in broad daylight at our well-defended borders: We should stop killing them. We should … Continue reading →

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Naksa Day: How Do You Spell Relief? R-O-R

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

There’s an old American TV commercial in which the narrator intones seriously: “How do you spell relief, R-o-l-a-i-d-s.”  There is only one way for Larry and Israel to redeem the crimes of Naksa Day, 2011: R-O-R. Before getting to that … Continue reading →

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Israel didn’t kill the protesters – they killed themselves

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

During the rather one-sided confrontation on the Syrian border yesterday, the Israeli army wasn’t saying anything about using rubber bullets. The army’s line was that the would-be “infiltrators” were first warned verbally, then shots were fired in the air, then sharpshooters fired … Continue reading →

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Occupation: ‘Not the End. Not Even the Beginning of the End. But Perhaps the End of the Beginning.’

Posted on May 29, 2011 by

I might go a little farther than Churchill’s famous quotation above and say that perhaps we are near the beginning of the end of the Occupation.  All this despite the fact that we face some of the worst conditions for … Continue reading →

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Israel’s great white hope

Posted on May 28, 2011 by

Israel’s leading opposition party, Kadima (Forward), and its great white hope, Tzipi Livni, showed once again that they are the true leaders of the peace camp. Today Egypt fully opened its border with Gaza, allowing people to pass both ways … Continue reading →

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Bibi’s “straw man” strategy

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

Despite what Netanyahu is broadcasting these days, nobody to the right of Hamas, certainly not Obama, is asking Israel to return to the exact 1967 borders – the country’s borders before it conquered the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza in … Continue reading →

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