Mondoweiss Bar Ilan University , Helena Cobban , Iran , Israel , Obama , Obama administration , Pentagon , United States , Washington
ADAM HOROWITZ: A joint military exercise, widely regarded as a precursor to a strike on Iran, has been dramatically scaled back. Why?
Richard Silverstein Egypt , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Oslo , Palestine , reasonable solution , West Bank
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: You can begin to see the battleground before you. One state, the question is whether this will be democratic, semi-democratic, or a Jewish-dominated theocracy.
Common Ground News Service Egypt , Europe , Foreign Affairs Committee , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Kurdistan Workers’ Party , Middle East , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Spain , Turkey , Turkish Parliament , United States
FAIK TUNAY, CGNEWS: Relations between Israel and Turkey have deteriorated over the past two years. There is one issue at its heart.
Richard Silverstein Activist , Artist , Border Police , Brian Avery , British government , Emily Henochowicz , Furkan Dogan , Gaza , IDF , Institute for Middle East Understanding , International Solidarity Movement , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli government , James Miller , Lebanon , Nilin , Oakland , Qalandiya checkpoint , Rachel Corrie , Tom Hurndall , United Nations , United States , West Bank
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The IDF (and Border Police) are murderers. They kill civilians. Unarmed civilians. Who protest for justice and human rights. This is no defensive army.
Juan Cole Apartheid , Avigdor Lieberman , Brazil , Danny Ayalon , Egypt , Gaza , International Court of Justice , Israel , Israeli Air Force , Israeli government , Mediterranean , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , South Africa , Turkey , UN Security Council , United States , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Ayalon’s despererate and over-the-top rhetoric smells of fear, fear that when South Africa calls you on Apartheid policies, it legitimizes that critique of the Greater Israel project…
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MONDOWEISS: The attack on four Palestinian teenagers last week could mark the beginning of a descent that has been actively encouraged by right-wing rhetoric
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MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: The lives of Palestinians and Israelis are intertwined and interconnected. The actions of one group inevitably impact the other.
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NATALIA SIMANOVSKY: The visit by a Palestinian official was not deemed suitable to receive strong coverage only its condemnation by Hamas
Juan Cole Ali Khamenei , America , Barack Obama , Barak , Binyamin Netanyahu , Democratic Party , Ehud Barak , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Iran , Israel , Israeli government , Lebanon , Middle East , Netanyahu , Obama , President , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , Shimon Peres , United States , US intelligence , USG , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Netanyahu and Barak were intent on boxing Obama into a corner. But the wily octogenarian, Shimon Peres, has stepped in.
Juan Cole Alternative Energy , Binyamin Netanyahu , Elections , France , Iran , Israel , Likud Party , Mother Jones , Nicolas Sarkozy , Prime Minister , Sheldon Adelson , U.S. Presidential Elections , United States
JUAN COLE: After Nicolas Sarkozy lost the presidency in France, SWAT teams went into his house looking for evidence that he had received $50,000 illicitly from the L’oreal heiress. $50,000? Our politicians get that in their sleep.
Richard Silverstein Arab Spring , Army , Haaretz , IDF , Iran , Israel , J14 , Lebanon , Mossad , Netanyahu , Shin Bet
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The treasury is proposing $12-billion, while Defense $15-billion. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu is expected to go with the Defense Ministry
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RAMZY BAROUD: After a short respite, neoconservatives are back with their bizarre maps, bleak visions, and a fail-proof recipe for perpetual conflict.
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JONATHAN COOK: … Expropriations would become a staple of life over the next three decades as more than 70 per cent of the land belonging to Palestinians was nationalized
Richard Silverstein Al Qaeda , Arab Spring , Bibi Netanyahu , Dick Cheney , Egypt , Egyptian military , Egyptian police , Ehud Barak , Eilat , Gaza , Haaretz , Hamas , IDF , Iran , Islamists , Israel , Israeli army , Michael Oren , Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Pakistan , Ramadan , Shin Bet , Sinai , Somalia , Sudan , Syria , United States , Yemen
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: There are forces out there seeking to capitalize on the Arab Spring: It’s s a different world Israel is facing. A harsher world, one more difficult to control.
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PHILIP WEISS: Shopkeepers in East Jerusalem joke about Romney’s speech. The implications of it, however, are all too serious
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FRANCIS MATTHEW: US Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is suggesting a dangerous return to a simplistic foreign policy in which foreigners are divided simply into friends and foes.
Richard Silverstein America , Ehud Barak , Iran , Israel , Jerusalem , Jodi Rudoren , Larry Derfner , Leon Panetta , Maariv , Middle East , Mitt Romney , Netanyahu , Obama , President , Secretary of Defense , Tel Aviv , The NY Times , Tom Donilon , United States , Washington
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: An Israeli leader who neither respects nor fears an American president is a recipe for disaster both for Israel and America. Obama has yet to find that out.
Crossroads Arabia Israel , Journalism , Middle East , Sinai
CROSSROADS ARABIA: These stories serve as a useful reminder: Be very skeptical about any reporting coming out of the Middle East.
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VIDEO, AP: Romney enrages Palestinians inferring Israelis were culturally superior over their Palestinian neighbours – the evidence being a more dynamic economy…
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RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The document, prepared for the U.S. government (which deducts from foreign aid expenditures monies spent by Israel on settlements), has so far been kept a secret…
