This week’s piece at Souciant deals with the anniversary of Israel’s independence and the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). It takes off from the shameful op-ed the Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, placed two days ago in the Wall Street Journal, wherein he whines about the world not loving Israel while it holds millions of [...]
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Acknowledge the Nakba
Posted in human rights, Israel, Nakba, Palestine, Refugees, tagged 1967 Six Day War, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dan Meridor, Iran, Israel, Israeli Independence Day, Life Magazine, Likud, Michael B. Oren, Middle east, Nakba, Palestine, Wall Street Journal, Yom Ha'atzmaut on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Restoring Israeli Political Discourse
Posted in Israel, J Street, tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Israel, J Street, Kadima, Mapam, Meretz, Oslo, Palestine, Ratz, Separation Wall, Shaul Mofaz, Shinui, Zahava Gal-On on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week’s Souciant pieceis up. In it, I look at what was perhaps the high point for me of this year’s J Street conference, the words of new Meretz chairwoman, Zehava Gal- On. Meretz has been reduced to a tiny party in the Knesset, but a voice as powerful and clear as Gal-On’s really does have the [...]
Israel’s Troubled Conscience
Posted in Israel, Refugees, tagged Akiva Eldar, AlanDershowitz, Armenian Genocide, Berkeley, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Joan Peters, John F. Kennedy, Native Americans, New York, Palestine, Refugees, Right of Return, S. Yizhar, Tel Aviv, United States, USSR on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In my latest piece for Souciant, I look at the very wide gap between Israel’s collective stance on the Palestinian Nakba and the understanding of events most Israelis have of that piece of history. It has been my experience that, while the average American, Jewish or not, is quite ignorant of the facts surrounding the [...]
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