NIGHTWATCH Extract: Israel-Palestine

Israel-Palestinian Authority: US Secretary of State Clinton said on 20 August that Israel and the Palestinians agreed to resume direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months. A senior PLO official said the Palestinians accepted the U.S. invitation to begin direct peace negotiations between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

Journal: Israel, Left to Right, One-State Reprise

Another fascinating report by Jonathan Cook,  a freelance reporter based in Nazareth on the West Bank, and one of the best reporters covering the Middle East One-State Debate Explodes Myth About Zionist Left by Jonathan Cook, Antiwar.com, July 21, 2010 http://original.antiwar.com/cook/2010/07/20/one-state-debate-explodes-myth/ A version of this article originally appeared in The National, published in Abu Dhabi. A …

Journal: The Loss of Moral Imagination–Israel AND the USA

Henry Siegman, the author of this article in the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, is a distinguished Jewish American.  He  has written some of the most thoughtful and cogent criticisms of Israel’s occupation policies, prominent among these are Israel’s Lies and The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam, both published in the London Review of Books. Israel’s …