Haaretz reports new restrictions on Arab Christians. Father Jack Abed, a parish priest of the Melkite Catholic community near the West Bank town of Ramallah, said the new rule violated understandings between Israel and the Vatican. “One of the agreements is the freedom of movement and worship,” he said. “There is no freedom of movement…
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Mick Napier of Scottish PSC on how Israel has arrived at pariah status in world opinion Israel’s popularity amongst the general public is at an all-time low, not only in Scotland and the UK, but across the whole of Europe and most of the world. In a survey in November last year concluding that “Israel…
by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post October 11, 2007 (This Cold-Warrior has moments of illumination) We are all Keynsians now,” Richard Nixon famously asserted just as the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes fell into disrepute. Likewise, one could have said with similar confidence in 1989, as Israel’s existence reached wide acceptance, “We are all Zionists…
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Electronic IntifadaUniversally regarded as the symbol of peace, the olive tree has become the object of violence. For more than forty years, Israel has uprooted over one million olive trees and hundreds of thousands of fruit trees in Palestine with terrible economic and ecological consequences for the Palestinian people. Their willful destruction has so threatened…
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For decades, efforts to bring about a two-state solution in historic Palestine have failed to provide justice and peace for the Palestinian and Israeli Jewish peoples, or to offer a genuine process leading towards them. The two-state solution ignores the physical and political realities on the ground, and presumes a false parity in power and…
Some years ago, when I was teaching at Boston University, I was asked by a Jewish group to give a talk on the Holocaust. I spoke that evening, but not about the Holocaust of World War II, not about the genocide of six million Jews. It was the mid-Eighties, and the United States government was…