Israel

 Common Ground News Service

A Shock to the System: How Israel Turns Friends Away

A Shock to the System: How Israel Turns Friends Away

R. TAYLOR, MONDOWEISS: One woman’s story of her treatment at the hands of the Israeli authorities serves as a parable for how the country can turn its friends against it.

 Mondoweiss

The Gaza Flotilla – Now It’s Become a ‘Flytilla’

The Gaza Flotilla – Now It’s Become a ‘Flytilla’

IRA GLUNTS, MONDOWEISS: Facing a battery of impediments the Gaza flotilla participants have resorted to typically ingenious methods to get their message across.

 Mondoweiss

‘Drop Dead’: Message to U.S Gaza Flotilla

‘Drop Dead’: Message to U.S Gaza Flotilla

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The American Gaza flotilla protesters have received some helpful advice from the U.S. State Department. They could be shot by Israeli forces.

 Ramzy Baroud

The Living Nightmare That is the Rafah Crossing

The Living Nightmare That is the Rafah Crossing

RAMZY BAROUD: The process of leaving Gaza through the Rafah Crossing to Egypt can only be described as a ‘human lottery’. A deeply unpleasant, humiliating lottery.

 Ramzy Baroud

The Everyday Miracle of Building a Playground in Gaza

The Everyday Miracle of Building a Playground in Gaza

RAMZY BAROUD: Houses were transformed into rubble during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Residents have had to…

 Tabsir

‘Live Long and Prosper’: My Message to Region

‘Live Long and Prosper’: My Message to Region

LEONAR NIMOY, TABSIR: There is a viable plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s the ‘two-state’ solution and its application is, how should I put it, simply logical.

 Juan Cole

Israeli Attack on Unarmed Protesters – Criminal

Israeli Attack on Unarmed Protesters – Criminal

JUAN COLE: Israeli troops have a wide variety of non-lethal means of dealing with unarmed protesters. That they opted for live ammunition.

 Ramzy Baroud

Return to Gaza: Memories, Tears… and Barrad

Return to Gaza: Memories, Tears… and Barrad

RAMZY BAROUD: It was the visit to my former home which stirred some of the most poignant memories – a house full of unruly boys, an exasperated mother and a loving, resourceful, thundering father.

 Mondoweiss

White House Web Page on Israel: The Lobby will be Delighted

White House Web Page on Israel: The Lobby will be Delighted

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: Whoever put together the new White House web page on Israel clearly didn’t pay much attention to the recent speech by President Obama on the Middle East. It’s a ‘lobby triumph’.

 Naseem Tarawnah

Dumb, and Dangerous: “Jordan Equals Palestine”

Dumb, and Dangerous: “Jordan Equals Palestine”

NASEEM TARAWNAH: 6,000 idiots from 69 countries around the world have signed a petition calling Jordan the alternative homeland for Palestinians?

 Mondoweiss

Land Swaps With Palestinians? Israel Doesn’t Have Enough to Swap…

Land Swaps With Palestinians? Israel Doesn’t Have Enough to Swap…

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The premise of conducting a swap is, I believe, that you have something of equal value for the other party. Tell that to Israel.

 Mondoweiss

Masterful Obama Delivers Rebuke to Jewish Lobby

Masterful Obama Delivers Rebuke to Jewish Lobby

PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: A visibly angry Barack Obama, fresh from yet another humiliation at the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered a stinging rebuke to the Jewish lobby at the AIPAC conference.

 Ramzy Baroud

Unified: Now Palestinian Leadership Needs to Raise its Game

Unified: Now Palestinian Leadership Needs to Raise its Game

RAMZY BAROUD: The newly unified Palestinian leadership faces a very rough few months in the lead-up to the key United Nations vote in September.

 Hisham Wyne

Obama Speech: Historical, Rather Than Hopeful

Obama Speech: Historical, Rather Than Hopeful

HISHAM WYNE: President Obama delivered a fluent summing up of recent developments. For those closer to the action, however, there was little new or substantive.

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