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Palestine/Israel Erupts Again
In Coming to Palestine I defended, from a libertarian perspective, the Palestinians against Israeli/Zionist oppression. I am reluctant to repeat that case in a far shorter form here, but the horrendous current events throughout Palestine/Israel, including the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, cry out for comment. I can do no better than to link to Caitlin Johnstone's piece "Fifteen Thoughts on Palestine." It deserves careful reading. I will add only a few thoughts. The mainstream criticism of the Palestinians, who object to being dominated by a settler colonial state, boils down to "But...
To Annex or Not to Annex — Is the Question Moot?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who remains under a cloud of personal corruption, had more or less promised to annex some of the West Bank in July. He's let his deadline slip, we've been told, because he doesn't want to proceed while his buddy Trump is preoccupied with other matters. He must need the cover, which is interesting in itself. Meanwhile leading Jewish Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer are uneasy with annexation talk, perhaps because his party is no longer solidly in Israel's corner. So who can say when and if a formal annexation will occur? I prefer to ask: does it...
Why’d the US Gaza Coup War Fail?
Hamas is a thorn in the side of Israel. To get rid of their control over the Gaza Strip, America sponsored a coup, arming a different Palestinian faction. But Hamas is still in control of the Gaza Strip. How did the plan go awry? Get the truth in our brand new political comedy…
Human Rights Group B’Tselem Creates Interactive Map of 52 Year Israeli Settlement Growth
"This visualization of the occupation shows how a combination of measures – annexation; establishment of settlements; declaration of 'state land,' firing zones, nature reserves and national parks; construction of the Separation Barrier; division of the West Bank into Areas A, B and C with varying forms of control; and severing the Gaza Strip from the West Bank – has broken up Palestinian space into separate units that are easier to control in isolation," B'Tselem said. through the annexation efforts Palestinian communities are more isolated from one another and therefore are "easier to...
TGIF: Trump Turns to Gaza as Middle East Deal of the Century Collapses
The Trump administration's "Deal of the Century" for the Palestine-Israel has, predictably, gone over like a lead balloon. So it's shifting gears. The Washington Post reports, "With President Trump’s promised Middle East peace plan stalled, administration officials are focusing on improving conditions in the impoverished Gaza Strip — a move that could put political pressure on Palestinian leaders to come to the negotiating table." Don't hold your breath. The "Deal of the Century" was dead on arrival because it was based on the idea that Saudi Arabia and Egypt would "deliver the...
The Decent Must Weep
Razan al-Najjar, 21 Razan al-Najjar, 21, a paramedic helping injured protesters in the Gaza Strip, was murdered by what Benjamin Netanyahu insists the Palestinians recognize as the State of the Jewish People. How, in these conditions, can individuals who are not religious believers but simply humanists, democrats and liberals, and endowed with a minimum of honesty, continue to define themselves as Jews? --Shlomo Sand, How I Stopped Being a Jew Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we deplore their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting...
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