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Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music
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The Face of Jewish Hate
Every so often a reader publishes a comment here that is so hateful I feature it in my Hall of Shame. My coverage of Jeff Halper’s travails with the Israeli justice system has brought out of the miasma just such a “human being.” He calls himself Yoni Brukirer and this is what this fine specimen [...]
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Free Gaza Movement Ships Leave Gaza Tomorrow
The ships which broke the Israeli blockade of Gaza have announced their intent to hoist anchor and return to Cyprus tomorrow morning. With them, they plan to take 14 Palestinians including students accepted to universities abroad and a professor who has not been able to take up his teaching post in Europe due to the [...]
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Abie Nathan, Israeli Fighter for Peace, Dies
Trusty reader Ira Glunts informs me of one of the supreme ironies of today’s news–a synchronistic moment that doesn’t happen often in life. Just as Jeff Halper was being arraigned before an Israeli court for civil disobedience on behalf of breaking Israel’s siege of Gaza, Abie Nathan, one of Israel’s most fearless peace activists was [...]
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Halper Released, Faces Indictment for Gaza Civil Disobedience
Jeff Halper was released from an Israeli jail today after being arraigned for his efforts to break the Gaza siege through the Free Gaza Movement recent journey. Ynetnews reports:
Professor Jeff Halper, the only Israeli citizen [ed., there were actually FOUR Israeli citizens] to participate in a sea-borne attempt to sail into Gaza on Saturday, was [...]
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Halper Arrested and Arraigned for Running Gaza Blockade
Word just in from Israeli peace activist, Dorothy Naor: Israeli authorities have arrested and arraigned Jeff Halper, a leader of the Free Gaza Movement journey which broke the Israeli blockade of Gaza. He was in the midst of the court hearing as Dorothy wrote her e mail two hours ago. I will update you when [...]
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Tzipi Livni DOES Have a Sense of Humor
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who is already running as if the next election is at hand, said recently that he dreamed of becoming both prime minister and education minister. Let it not be said that former spymaster and Barak opponent, Tzipi Livni does not have a sense of humor. Her reply: I can [...]
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Israeli Free Gaza Movement Leader Arrested
Thanks to reader Ira Glunts, who informs me that Jeff Halper, the only Israeli who joined the Free Gaza Movement voyage, which successfully broke the Israeli blockade of Gaza, has been arrested. Halper is the founder of the International Committee Against Home Demolitions and a lecturer in anthropology at Ben Gurion University. Israeli police took [...]
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Kristol Flacks for Lieberman-McCain Ticket
Note: this post contains some material excerpted from a post written yesterday.
Bill Kristol, the doyen of neocon chatterati, has given his imprimataur to a McCain-Lieberman ticket in a column in today’s N.Y. Times:
…McCain…could decide that Obama’s conventional pick of Biden allows him to seize the moment by making a bold choice. He could select the [...]
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First-Ever Breach of Gaza Siege Merits N.Y. Times-Page 12
Ya gotta scratch your head at the editorial decisions of mainstream U.S. media outlets: for the first time ever Israel’s cursed siege of Gaza has been breached by a band of brave peace activists and all the Times can muster is a hundred words or so on page 12. And this is the only [...]
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Lieberman: ‘Time for Israel to Act’ Against Iran
In all the coverage of Joe Lieberman’s address to the Christians United for Israel gala last month, only Justin Vogt, writing for The National, seems to have noticed that Lieberman tacitly called for Israel to attack Iran. Considering that this man may be John McCain’s running mate in a few days or weeks, I can’t [...]
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