While John Kerry was putting on a show in the Mideast, Congress was showing where the US really stands. I elaborate at Lobelog.
Posts Tagged ‘Ehud Olmert’
Little Support in Washington for Kerry’s Mideast Efforts
Posted in Congress, Israel, Palestine, United States, tagged AIPAC, Americans for Peace Now, Barack Obama, Barbara Lee, Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Elon, Congress, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, foreign policy, Iran, Israel, J Street, John Kerry, Palestine, Shimon Peres, Syria, Yitzhak Rabin on May 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Preparing for War
Posted in Israel, tagged Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, East Jerusalem, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Habayit Hayehudi, HaTnuah, Iran, Isaac Herzog, Israel, Jordan, Likud, Meretz, Naftali Bennett, Palestine, Shelly Yachimovich, Syria, Tzipi Livini, West Bank, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beitenu, Yom Kippur War on March 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Israel may not have a government, but the election settled one thing: both the governing coalition and the opposition will be led by and mostly composed of parties who range from indifference to ending the occupation to outright hostility to the very suggestion. I explore this in Souciant this week.
Israel’s Worst Nightmare
Posted in Naftali Bennett, Peace Plans, tagged Anti-Zionism, Area C, Avigdor Lieberman, B'Tselem, Benjamin Netanyahu, democracy, Egypt, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Habayit Hayehudi, human rights, international law, Israel, Jewish State, Middle east, Naftali Bennett, National Religious Party, Netanyahu, Occupation, One-State Solution, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, pro-Israel, Shelly Yachimovich, Two-state solution, United Nations, West Bank, World Health Organization, Yair Lapid, Yigal Allon on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year, everyone. I begin 2013 by reaffirming my point that the right-wing, one-state forces in Israel are taking leadership to frame the conversation in a post-Oslo world. Now it is Naftali Bennett and his HaBayit HaYehudi party leading the way. Bennett, though a zealous nationalist and an orthodox Jew, presents a much more reasonable face which he puts on his outrageous plan for endless occupation and permanent apartheid. And, while we can critique his ideas, we need also to recognize that this sort of thinking is making its way into the political arena–it’s in Israel now, which means it will soon be in Congress and parts of the European right. An alternative needs to be developed and politicized; peace activists need to stop wasting time in the misguided effort to raise Oslo from the dead.
How Israel Lost
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, tagged Ahmed Jabari, ARab League, Avigdor Lieberman, B'Tselem, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, IMF, Israel, Kadima, Khaled Mesha'al, Labor, Mahmoud Abbas, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Operation Cast Lead, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Turkey on November 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s column at Souciant, I do a rundown of the winners and losers in the so-called “Operation Pillar of Defense.” I examine a number of different actors, not just Israel and Hamas, as well as some of the regional implications. Hope you find it interesting.
Ignoring Arab Voters
Posted in Palestinian Citizens of Israel, tagged Al-Aksa Intifada, Arab Democratic Party, Aryeh Deri, Avigdor Lieberman, Bedouin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Hadash, Israel, Jewish State, Labor Party, Likud, Mapai, Palestine, Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, West Bank, Yisrael Beitenu, Zionism on October 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s article at Souciant, I examine the lack of political power of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Though they have the right to vote just like any Israeli, as Israel endlessly reminds us, the power of that vote in the real world is negligible, and not just for the reasons many disillusioned voters feel. It’s about the marginalization of Israel’s Arab sector more broadly.
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