On March 31st, Barnabe Geisweiller posted on Mondoweiss this “15-year-old killed by Israeli troops– no story”. He starts with this:
In journalism, “if it bleeds, it leads” is the axiom. When it comes to Israel-Palestine, though, stories tend to lead when the bleeding is done by Israelis, not Palestinians.
Mr. Gesiweiller is currently a graduate student at [...]
First, Haaretz reports:
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed three resolutions on Wednesday condemning Israel over its policies related to what it called Palestinian and Syrian territories, but the United States voted against them all.
A further resolution, calling for a fund to compensate Palestinians who suffered losses during Israel’s offensive in Gaza 14 [...]
I saw Bardley Burston’s column this morning about Ray Hanania whom I know most of as an Israeli Arab (who now lives in Chicago) satirical writer for Israeli newspapers. So I decided to look him up on youtube (why youtube?) and see if there is anything of him. Apparently he’s a comedian and I found [...]
Found this at Israellycool and it made me smile so I want to share this.
Charlie Rose (11/23/09) had an excellent discussion today with Eugene Rogan and Stephen Cohen about American foreign policy in the Middle East. Sara Ivry of Tablet Magazine also has an interesting discussion with Mr. Cohen. If you haven’t heard of Tablet Magazine yet, I recommend you visit their site. For me, it has been [...]
The headline above is not real, but it might be in the not so distant future with the reports about the increase range of Israel’s enemies. And with the ‘Goldstone’ name increasingly becoming a pariah among Jewish intellectuals, why not name future rockets that hit deeper into Israel with the one that helped legitimize them.
Outside observers tend to label Israel, and all foreign countries, with narrow labels. Depending on which side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a blog resides on, that blog will tend to highlight articles from the Israeli press (as well as the American and European press) which fit their vision of Israel and their argument. But in [...]
Introducing mbrown0315, Youtuber extraordinaire, and I found his channel full of strong arguments.
More to come.
I came upon this while surfing the web, UNSETTLED by Adam Hootnick.
Using the method I introduced yesterday to quantify the UNHRC vote on the Goldstone report, here are the results on the recent vote in the UN General Assembly on the resolution endorsing the Goldstone report.
Bonus question:
Yesterday, Israeli commandos seized Iranian arms intended for Hezbollah on a ship carrying the flag of which country, and in [...]
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