Other Views on Israel & Palestine
- Resisting Temptation - Curtis Doebbler
Aug 21, 2010 - 07:44:11 PM
Perhaps more than any other time in this holy month of Ramadan, the Palestinian negotiators must find the courage to reject the false temptations of the West and to act in the best interests of the Palestinian people. If they cannot do it now, they may never be able to. - Negotiations must be about substance, not form
Jul 28, 2010 - 06:31:14 AM
Palestinians view the latest Israeli push for direct talks as an attempt to shift the focus from the issues that must be resolved to the form of discussions. While Israelis want to appear more open to progress by agreeing to direct negotiations, Israel's positions on core issues have not moved, and the spread of settlements, along with demolition of Palestinian homes, continues. - Washington's state of denial claims yet more casualties - The National ...
Jul 12, 2010 - 10:59:06 AM
"Where once it was deemed prudent for the US to mediate between Israel and its Arab neighbours, today the requirements of political survival appear to require a parroting of Israel’s own positions – as President Barack Obama’s capitulation to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week demonstrated." - Michael Oren's curious understanding of friendship
Jul 02, 2010 - 06:42:26 PM
US support for Israel is indeed unshakeable, but friendship goes both ways. Rather than wasting time lamenting the supposed shifts and rifts in the US-Israel relationship, the Netanyahu government should stop the provocations and the political machinations and start acting like a real friend and ally. It can do this by demonstrating a real commitment to the Obama Administration's efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu's visit to the White House next week is a good place to start. - A Special Place in Hell / Tea Party Jews: Betraying U.S. and Israel at ...
Jul 02, 2010 - 02:52:32 PM
Ever wonder what a future America might look like if the Tea Party took over? Try today's Israel. That distinctive brew of left-baiting, Obama-hating, poorly veiled racism, clergy-driven jingoism, clergy-fanned derision of the Supreme Court, the Luddite insertion of anti-government bile where an ideology should go, a majority which feels victimized and discriminated against and threatened by minorities of indeterminate legal status – it's all here. It just speaks Hebrew. - A bi-delusional state
Jul 02, 2010 - 02:47:31 PM
This land will either be home to two nation-states for two peoples, or one nation-state - a Palestinian Arab state. The concept of a nation-state is not going to disappear from here; it would behoove us to make sure that Israel doesn't disappear.
