Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
"Israeli policy is almost entirely mortgaged to the settler enterprise, to the appropriation of more and more Palestinian land." With such disenfranchisement, "every passing day makes a South African trajectory more likely"
Recent coalition deal strengthens Netanyahu considerably. The opposition (less hawkish than the PM on Iran, Palestinian issue) has been neutralised, not empowered. Stage is set for confrontation with Obama, not compromise
American citizen of Palestinian descent flies to Israel, aiming to visit sister in West Bank. On landing in Tel Aviv she faces immigration. Despite best preparations, it doesn't go well. Soon she's sent to the "Arab room"
What is Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu up to? First, he calls early elections. Then, out of the blue, he creates a unity government instead, bringing the Kadima party to his side. Tactics have changed; his strategy remains the same
Do you think a second-term Obama presidency, freed from re-election concerns, will tackle Netanyahu and push for Middle East peace? Here's why it won't happen (and it's not because of the Israel lobby)
![Separation Wall by [l a u r a]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2284/2421955354_ff5feec3a4_s.jpg "Separation Wall by [l a u r a]")
Crisis of Zionism author responds to criticism that he's leftist and polarising. "I actually occupy a shrinking center of American Jews fiercely committed to Israel's existence but profoundly troubled by its current course"
Israeli co-architect of Oslo Accords says their failure is now so complete that Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) should dissolve the Palestinian Authority and throw responsibility for the occupied West Bank back on intransigent Netanyahu
Even if Iran gets the bomb, Israel has one already. What Israel needs is a nuclear strategy based not on overwhelming military superiority, but on mutually assured destruction, and which views Iran as a rational actor
If you look kindly on the Palestinian national cause, bear this in mind: Drawing an analogy between Israel's occupation of the West Bank and apartheid doesn't work. Not in terms of fact, strategy or rhetoric. Here's why
"Even as Israel prepares for its most important democratic exercise – national elections – a series of laws now pending or already passed by the Knesset suggests the country is moving in an alarmingly anti-democratic direction"
"World attention remains fixed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but a distinct, albeit related, conflict smoulders within Israel itself. It might be no less perilous." Analysis of political and economic marginalisation (PDF)
There may well be a disaster in the future if Iran gets a nuclear bomb. But there will certainly be a disaster immediately if Israel attacks Iran. Israel is more directly endangered by its own fears than by Iran's ambitions
Delegates at the first Zionist congress in 1897. Image from Wikimedia Commons
