I woke up this morning and received a breathless email from Cecilie Surasky, the Deputy Director of “Jewish Voices for Peace.” The email gleefully announced that in anticipation of the...
Tag - Palestine
Beware the IDF AIDS Fairies!
There you are, sleeping peacefully in your bed. Perhaps you are dreaming about grazing sheep on a grassy knoll, or harvesting olives on a sunny day. Perhaps you are dreaming about returning to your...
Zombie Yasser Arafat Father of Palestinian Statehood?
That’s what Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow implied when she stated that there was a spiritual significance in the timing of her late husband’s exhumation, just two days before...
6 Major Falsehoods About the UN Vote for Palestine
It’s not my beat to write about politics. I usually leave that to The Middle and CK. But I can’t help but put down some ideas in the wake of the UN vote to create a Palestinian non-member...
Why Palestinian Statehood Will Almost Certainly Fail
Palestinian Statehood will likely fail at Security Council, Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a liar, Israel Supreme Court orders demolition of illegal settlements angering right wing, Former Mossad Chief says...
Home! Flytilla Fizzles
I spent the bulk of last week in Kiev at the 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference. I was initially concerned that the impending launch of the Gaza flotilla and how that would affect the interaction...