Posts Tagged: second intifada
Ehud Barak’s Tangled Legacy
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak - heroic military commander, failed politician, and bane of Jewish settlers - has announced his intention to resign from public...
Israel’s Image War
The Israel Defense Forces is bombing the Gaza Strip and the world is, for the most part, silent. In fact, the IDF is bombing Gaza...
Levy Distorts, Haaretz Supports
How absurd for Haaretz to be so named for the Land of Israel when it is quite unworthy of the title. Through the years, Haaretz has...
Rethinking Palestine 2012
In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), failed to win U.N. acceptance of Palestine as an independent state. This year, he lowered...
Palestinian Films Suffer no Lack of Funding or Exposure
Starting Oct. 5, for the sixth year in a row, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston is hosting a weeklong Palestinian film series....
On 9/11 – We are all One Heart
Yesterday morning I woke up from a terrible nightmare about my father's murder. The nightmares are hard to deal with, but the reality is much...
Why Hasn’t There Been Another Palestinian Intifada?
This article was written by Alexander Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky. Is the Arab Spring an 'intifada'? And why haven't the Palestinians joined in? The intifada or 'throwing...
Switched at Birth in Gaza?
A reader emailed me about a CBC radio program (originally from Radio Netherlands, link here) he heard recently about Ahmed Masoud, a British writer and...
J Street on Its Own Terms
It is easy enough to criticize J Street from a conservative perspective, which, given developments since the failure of Oslo and the second Intifada, is...
NY Times Provides Platform to Preach Third Intifada
Imagine a mainstream newspaper running an op-ed which encouraged a violent uprising against the government of Australia. Or against Mexico. Well, there always has to...
Someone is Lying About the Houla Massacre
Westerners trying to figure out what exactly happened at Houla, the scene of a massacre in Syria that resulted in the deaths of more than...
Madonna Fans Ask Netanyahu to Wait on Iran Strike
As reported in The Algemeiner earlier this week, Madonna will begin her next world tour in Israel. Now, Madonna's Israeli fans have gone political. On a...
Is Israel’s Home Front Ready For September?
When we moved from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion on August 31, 2010, my family and I became official "settlers." The following day Hamas welcomed our arrival...
