Dear Friends, Some of you have received e-mails, seemingly from me, saying that “blog service has been discontinued” for The Third Way. These e-mails have been sent by Feedblitz, not me, and they refer to the blog that used to be housed at the Jewish Voice for Peace web site. Subscriptions to this blog are [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Some Odd E-Mails
Posted in Uncategorized on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dutch police raided the offices of a company leasing cranes for building the West Bank Separation Fence and settlements
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following was just released by Gush Shalom. Since it doesn’t seem to be on the web yet, I decided to post it here: Press Release 10/19/2010 Dutch police raided the offices of a company leasing cranes for building the West Bank Separation Fence and settlements. Company executives, including the Israeli Doron Livnat, may face [...]
An Israeli Blogger Claims “Jewish State” Demand Initiated by Left in 2001
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Geneva Initiative, human rights, international law, Israel, Jewish State, Occupation, One-State Solution, Palestinians, Peace Groups, Right of Return, Two-state solution, Yasser Abed-Rabbo, Yossi Beilin on October 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Israeli Blogger Yaacov Lozowick sent a challenge over Twitter on Sunday to my arguments about Israel’s demand for recognition, not merely of its sovereignty, but as a Jewish state. He states: “the problem with your article, Mitchell, is that the facts are all backwards. Will you retract?” In an e-mail he sent me, he clarifies: [...]
Foxman vs Peace Groups
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abe Foxman, ADL, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, BDS, democracy, human rights, Israel, Israel Lobby, Jewish State, Jewish Voice for Peace, Occupation, Settlements, Two-state solution on October 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My latest piece at Meretz USA looks at the shameless list the ADL has put out of its “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups.” Incredibly, ADL puts Jewish Voice for Peace on that list (and a few others equally absurd). When looking at who is harming both Israel and the Jewish people, I suggest Abe Foxman look in the [...]
Turkel Commission Has Already Made Its Decision on Flotilla
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged B'Tselem, Flotilla, Gaza, Gisha, Hamas, human rights, international law, Israel, Occupation, Operation Cast Lead, PHR-Israel, rule of law, Turkel, United Nations on October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Israel has, in the past, conducted some reasonably credible investigations of itself. Sure, there is always an issue of credibility when a country investigates itself, and on many, maybe most, occasions (most recently, the investigations Israel launched into its own conduct in Operation Cast Lead) such investigations have been whitewashes designed to cover up, rather [...]