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Europe Urged to Step into Breach of Failed Mideast Peace

Posted in Europe, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »


A group of former European heads of state and foreign ministers have sent a letter to Catherine Ashton advocating some important steps in the Israel-Palestine conflict, and included a surprisingly sharp rebuke of US policy. I report here for IPS.

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Setbacks Push Mideast Peace to Back Burner

Posted in Barack Obama, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »


My report for Inter Press Service on how the options, or lack thereof, are shaping up for renewing the lifeless corpse called the “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians in Obama’s second term.

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Will the Israel lobby nominate the next US Secretary of Defense?

Posted in US-Israel Lobby, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »


Many of you may have seen my piece for Jewish Voice for Peace’s Muzzlewatch blog last week, analyzing the hateful campaign against the potential nomination of Chuck jvplogo (2)Hagel. Well, today, JVP put out an action alert on this issue. Please take a moment to take this action and send a message to President Obama that you are tired of AIPAC and its fellow travelers having such undue and disproportionate influence over US political and diplomatic appointments and, indeed, over our policy in general. Here is the alert:

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Israel’s Worst Nightmare

Posted in Naftali Bennett, Peace Plans, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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.

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The Two-State Scam

Posted in Jerusalem, Settlements, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »


The idea of Israel building in E-1 has got world leaders in quite a lather. But is it really because it is the death knell for the two-state solution or is it because even raising the issue betrays the reality that there never was a serious effort to reach a two-state resolution to this conflict to begin with, despite the rhetoric? I argue it is both.

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