Duh. That’s Lisa Goldman‘s central thesis in an opinion piece written in today’s edition of Haaretz: For Palestinians in the West Bank, the sense of helplessness and frustration...
Tag - West Bank
More debate on east Jerusalem, Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Noam Sheizaf of Promised Land blog has responded. I wrote about his criticism of my east Jerusalem Shabbat post where I discussed some of the history of east Jerusalem as well as the reconstruction...
Barak Speaks at the Herzliya Conference
Last night, Israeli Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, spoke at the Herzliya Conference, speaking about peace with the Palestinians. Israel, at the moment, has deterrence against terrorist elements...
An Archaeological Hannukah
Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by...
The Palestinians Believe They Have Israel in the Corner
The boxing match continues and Israel is about to get bloodied. As I’ve written in the past few weeks, the Palestinians believe the timing is propitious for them to pursue their endgame. I...
The Palestinians Think They Are in the Endgame
Among the Jerusalem Post’s blog posts, there is one today by Ira Sharkansky, a Hebrew University Political Science professor, called “Why the Stalemate.” Sharkansky also posts at...
A Zionist Responds
I am a Zionist. What that means on a very basic level is that I believe that the Jewish people have a right to self-determination, particularly in their historic homeland Israel and Judea. I believe...
Leaving the West Bank
"The only thing that can save Israel as a Jewish state is by unilaterally withdrawing our settlements from the West Bank,"