We always knew anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein was a nutcase. But he really outdoes himself in this latest post in which he once again goes after blogger Lisa Goldman, who has been nominated in this year’s Brass Crescent Awards. As usual, the writing is verbose, so I’ll summarize the post for you if you can’t [...]
From the Jerusalem Post: One Israeli diplomatic official, describing the atmosphere at the meeting in Jerusalem of the Israeli-Palestinian Steering Committee as “tense,” said the sides came to the meeting with widely different ideas of what it was meant to accomplish. The officials said that while Israel saw the meeting as “a festive resumption of [...]
Those “peace-loving” kiddies from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) have a post to mark the 20th anniversary of the palestinian’s “First Intifada.” The first Intifada began in a piecemeal fashion with demonstrations and civil disobedience sparked by an increasing number of shootings and human rights abuses by the Israeli occupation. The Intifada marked an end [...]
Spokesman for palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rdainah, and former Israeli President Moshe Katsav.
Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak begins to do a political manoeuvre known as the “Kevin Rudd.”
I’m finally back in Israel after my 5-hour-flight to Singapore, 3-hour layover, 13-hour-flight to Frankfurt, 10-hour layover, and 4-hour-flight to Israel. At least physically speaking. My brain should be here any day now. As usual, my flights provided me with a blogworthy anecdote, which I think aptly demonstrates why people refer to native Israelis as [...]
