Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

Bassam Aramin has taken the major step of filing an Israeli court case seeking to reopen the police investigation into the death of his daughter (see my series on the subject) at the hands of the Israeli border police. Though eight eyewitnesses testified that the Border Police killed 10 year old Abir Aramin, and [...]

When you write regularly as a progressive Zionist about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict either as a blogger or journalist you invariably face tremendous opposition. You are always explaining and defending your positions to critics, sometimes extremely hostile ones as anyone who reads the comment threads here can attest.
That’s why I found Gershon Baskin’s Answering My [...]

Haaretz columnist, Gideon Levy has a provocative essay in Counterpunch arguing that Israel’s policy of isolating Hamas and strangling Palestine economically and financially after its election victory is an abject failure. What’s more the U.S. and international community which danced to Israel’s tune in implementing this iron fist policy, have proven themselves to be [...]

Jewish Week writes that Henry Siegman, prominent Mideast analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations, is consulting with Hamas moderates who “do not preclude at all a recognition of the State of Israel despite the charter.” Back in 1999, Siegman helped draft a report advising ways to reform the PA to make it more [...]

Today’s New York Times contains a cogent editorial calling on Ariel Sharon to grasp firmly the chance for peace offered by Yasir Arafat’s death (