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Israel Uses Social Media To Defend Its Assault on Gaza
via Lobe Log The current Israeli onslaught against Gaza contains many echoes of the assault four years ago. In one regard, however, it is clear that Israel learned some lessons from its experience with...
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Israel, UK and US fail to get Palestinians to Withdraw or Blunt UN Resolution
via Lobe Log The vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the Palestinian application for non-member status is a foregone conclusion. They’re going to win and it’s not really going to matter...
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AIPAC Directs Congressional Punishment of Palestinians After UN Vote
via Lobe Log The US government has swept into action in the aftermath of the Palestinians’ overwhelming victory at the United Nations on Thursday. No less than three amendments were brought in the...
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Q&A: “The Israeli Boycott Movement Is Not Anti-Semitic”
via IPS News Rabbi Brant Rosen leads a congregation in Evanston, Illinois and is author of the new book, Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity. Speaking with Mitchell...
View ArticleChuck Hagel And Israel: The Wrong Question
via MuzzleWatch Chuck Hagel is not exactly my kind of guy. Hagel is an old-school Conservative Republican and his voting record in the Senate lines up pretty well with that image. He was poor on civil...
View ArticleIs the Israel Lobby Losing Its Grip?
via Lobe Log In recent weeks, a few incidents have begun to raise questions about the vaunted power of the so-called “Israel Lobby” and whether its influence might be waning. First there were the...
View ArticleEarly Reaction: Winners and Losers in Israel’s 2013 Elections
via Lobe Log Well, here it is, the day after. The Israeli elections are over, but the form of the next government is not at all clear. Most likely, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Beiteinu party will form a...
View ArticleWhat Obama can do in Israel-Palestine
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The Israeli elections ushered in a record number of new Knesset members, yet the prospects for resolving Israel’s 45-year old occupation of Palestinian land are as dim...
View ArticleSetbacks Push Mideast Peace to Back Burner
by Mitchell Plitnick via IPS News The optimism expressed by U.S. President Barack Obama and newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry about restarting the peace process between Israel and the...
View ArticleA Desperate cry for help from Abbas
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick As President Barack Obama’s first trip to Israel approaches, one senses desperation from the Ramallah headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. Obama’s scheduled stop...
View ArticleAll Eyes on Iran for AIPAC 2013 Conference
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The annual Israel-Congress orgy dubbed as the AIPAC Policy Conference kicked off today. It might just as well be called the War on Iran conference — that’s sure to be...
View ArticleAIPAC on the Defensive
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The 2013 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference wasn’t quite the same show of arrogant power that it usually is. There seems to have been a...
View ArticleObama’s Subtle Message To Israel: You’re Not My Top Priority Anymore
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick All was not as it seemed during President Barack Obama’s appearances in Jerusalem and Ramallah, where he addressed audiences of Israelis and Palestinians. On the...
View ArticleIsrael’s New Cabinet
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The new Israeli government features a security braintrust that might be a bit more reasonable on Iran, but is likely to be even more hawkish both in the immediate...
View ArticleAIPAC Bill Runs Into Unusual Resistance In Congress
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick In an article published in The Hill, Mike Coogan reports that some of the key legislation that emerged from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) 2013...
View ArticleUS Arms Sale Sends Mixed Messages to Israel
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel may have insisted that the latest sale of US arms to Israel sent a strong message to Iran, but the actual message was a bit more...
View ArticleKerry in the Mideast: Tilting at Windmills
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick Who is John Kerry trying to fool? His repeated trips to the Middle East have produced no change in the status quo and prevented neither the resignation of the US’...
View ArticleIsrael Unlikely to Stay on Syrian Sidelines for Much Longer
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick All eyes are on US President Barack Obama as he contemplates how to deal with the fact that the Syrian government might have crossed a red line he never should have...
View ArticleEurope Urged to Step into Breach of Failed Mideast Peace
by Mitchell Plitnick via IPS News The Oslo peace process has failed and Europe must take stronger leadership in the Middle East, according to a distinguished group of former European leaders that is...
View ArticleBoston Globe Backs Stephen Hawking on Boycott of Israeli Conference
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The story of Stephen Hawking’s decision to pull out of the Israeli President’s Conference just got more interesting. A major United States newspaper, the Boston Globe,...
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