My latest piece for IPS News is up. It looks at the meeting today between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama and the fallout from it.
Posts Tagged ‘Refugees’
Correcting the Historical Inaccuracies: Bibi vs Abu Mazen
Posted in Bibi Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, Refugees, tagged 1948, Abbas, Anti-Zionism, international law, Israel, Jewish State, Justice, Middle east, Netanyahu, Palestine, Palestinians, Partition, Refugees, Right of Return, United Nations on May 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Once again, history becomes the battlefield in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And as usual, both sides in the debate have their self-serving versions. In 2011, there is a lot less gray area in this history. Most of the history of 1948 is clear as far as the facts are concerned. Serious students of those facts can [...]
Lessons From Nakba Day Disturbances Go Unlearned
Posted in Bibi Netanyahu, Israel, Palestine, Refugees, tagged Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, human rights, international law, Israel, Jewish State, Middle east, Netanyahu, Obama, Occupation, Palestine, Palestinians, Refugees, Right of Return, Syria, Two-state solution, West Bank on May 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Wise leaders in Jerusalem and Washington were given a great deal of very useful information yesterday in Israel when a popular action led to hundreds of Palestinian refugees crossing the border into Israel, leading to the deaths of ten of them. Unfortunately, wisdom in those two cities is in short supply and what’s there is [...]
Early Thoughts On Naqba Day Tragedies
Posted in IDF, Israel, Palestine, Refugees, tagged human rights, Israel, Lebanon, Middle east, Naqba Day, Occupation, Palestine, Palestinians, Refugees, Syria on May 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have a few early thoughts on the Nakba Day violence which, to this point, has claimed eight lives. But I want to start with those of a colleague, Mya Guarnieri, a reporter for al-Jazeera and one of my teammates in building the upcoming Babylon Times site. Mya was at Qalandia checkpoint, between Israeli-annexed East [...]
Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israeli Independence and Palestinian Dispossession
Posted in Israel, Jewish State, Refugees, Zionism, tagged 1948, history, Israel, Jewish State, Merav Michaeli, Middle east, Palestine, Palestinians, Refugees, Two-state solution, Yom Ha'atzmaut, Zionism on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Ha’aretz, Merav Michaeli has written a most engaging op-ed on the occasion of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day. She focuses in particular on the Orwellian “Naqba Law,” which bars public funds for any organization that marks the Palestinian tragedy that was part and parcel of Israel’s creation. Michaeli wrote: “…after 63 years, Israel is [...]
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