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Comment on The unnamed “senior Netanyahu aide” in the NYT article on suppression of dissent in Israel [UPDATED] by BLUMENTHAL: The Bibi connection 13Jan12 | Australians for Palestine

BLUMENTHAL: The Bibi connection 13Jan12 | Australians for Palestine — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:50:45 +0000

[...] White House, Ron Dermer, a top Netanyahu aide with close ties to leading Republicans in Washington, reassured the Prime Minister that Republicans would retake Congress. Netanyahu simply rejected Obama’s plea [...]

Comment on Amb. Michael Oren’s credibility problem by Bibi and Lieberman at odds over new UN Ambassador; Dore gold favored to replace “lame duck” Shalev | Palestine Note

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:17:32 +0000

[...] the appointment of a Putinist as Foreign Minister, an experimental diplomat as his deputy and a movement neoconservative as ambassador to a Democratic administration in the [...]

Comment on Yediot links Yitzhar Rabbi to torching of mosque [incl. new primary document] by ""We can't wait for the day of reckoning… The confrontation should be brought forward."

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:05:21 +0000

[...] intended to evacuate the night of December 12, that is, until the plan was deterred by the attack. Yitzhar is home to Rabbi Yosef Elitzur of the Od Yosef Hai yeshiva (who "explicitly called for operations like the arson at the Yasouf [...]

Comment on Facing stone-throwing, the IDF cries “popular terror” and lets slip the dogs of war by Shabak blocks participation of West Bank protest leader in European conferences | Palestine Note

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:14:05 +0000

[...] got off lightly. Advocacy on behalf of the unarmed protest movement in the West Bank (termed “Popular Terror” by the IDF) is a crime punishable by incarceration. Here are a few recent [...]

Comment on New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘I can’t take the Occupation anymore’ by Israël n’est plus une bonne chose pour les Juifs Israël n’est plus une bonne chose pour les Juifs « alkawtar

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:12:15 +0000

[...] aujourd’hui des plus communs et il a de nombreux échos au cœur de la vie juive. David Remnick se dresse pour dire que la communauté juive américaine ne sera plus longtemps la vache à lait d’un [...]

Comment on Settler Rabbi publishes “The complete guide to killing non-Jews” — UPDATED by Religious Extremism: Pick Your Flavor « Machimon

Religious Extremism: Pick Your Flavor « Machimon — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:49:48 +0000

[...] soon as it was published late last year, Torat Ha’Melech sparked a national uproar. The controversy began when an Israeli tabloid panned the book’s contents as “230 [...]

Comment on Yediot’s Barnea outlines the nightmare that would follow an Israeli strike on Iran by Yediot’s Barnea outlines the nightmare that would follow an Israeli strike on Iran | Palestine Note

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:00:08 +0000

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Comment on Radical statement by Netanyahu? by European Israel-advocacy group files suit against Goldstone report in Belgium | Palestine Note

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:58:22 +0000

[...] Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders act to remove Israel from the international criminal justice system, some Israelis and their supporters in [...]

Comment on Exposing Gerald Steinberg and NGO Monitor by Searching for scapegoats, Netanyahu now tries to label Kadima a fifth-column | Palestine Note

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:57:26 +0000

[...] the GSS became a tool in the latest incarnation of the government-sponsored, NGO Monitor-led, campaign to suppress the Israeli human rights community – Im Tirzu’s assault on the [...]

Comment on Sara Benninga’s rousing speech at the Sheikh Jarrah rally: There is a new Left in town! by Didi’s generation | Palestine Note

Didi’s generation | Palestine Note — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:56:53 +0000

[...] JUST BEFORE I called Didi, I had gone on a mission of my own, to a local synagogue where a sweet young man stood in front of a boiling vat of water, and carefully dunked our pots to make them fit for Passover. I have written here last year about the child’s play (as Yehuda Amichai called it) that typifies Passover preparations, the growing disconnect in this country between the rigors of Passover ritual and its meaning. Let’s just say that talking to Didi made me feel fit for Passover. In every generation, the Haggadah says, it is incumbent upon us to stand at Sinai ourselves. Didi knows something about standing, and generations, but also about the power of telling the story, especially in our generation. “The army withdrew from Bili’in when they saw the cameras and the crowds,” he said. Didi won’t make it tomorrow, but hundreds of us will be at Sheikh Jarrah, with the cameras and crowds and cautious cops, privileged to be led by young people. [...]