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

Marwan Barghouti in Israeli chains, unbeaten and unbowed (credit: AP/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi)
The Forward details yet another harebrained scheme suggesting the Olmert government has proposed to the U.S. that it release Jonathan Pollard in exchange for Israel releasing Marwan Barghouti. Here is Haaretz’s slightly different take on the matter. There are many reasons why [...]

I’m delighted to report that Aipac’s signature legislation to cripple U.S. Mideast policy by preventing our government from interacting with a Hamas-led PA is faltering in both the House and Senate. It’s still possible that the bill could pass and become law but it looks less likely now as M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel [...]

IDF-operated Caterpillar armored tractor bears down on lone Palestinian protester (credit: Stop U.S. Military Aid to Israel)
British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is in the midst of a major row with Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Church of England’s vote to consider divesting its stock in the Caterpillar company. The U.S. heavy [...]

(credit: Rina Castelnuovo/NYT)
All my heart and sympathy go out to Israelis who’ve suffered yet another terror attack yesterday in Netanya at the hands of Islamic Jihad. This time four Israelis and the bomber were killed. An absolutely heroic security guard pinned the bomber to a wall while two police officers (one of them [...]

Anyone following the Mideast conflict will notice one strange fact. If you explore public opinion within Israeli and Palestinian societies, there is mutual consensus on what the final settlement will look like. Writing for Common Ground News Service, Daoud Kuttab, Palestinian journalist and the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al [...]

Earl Krugel (1943-2005) (source: Jewish Journal)
Earl Krugel, a Jewish Defense League activist convicted of plotting Southern California bombings against local mosques, Muslim-American organizations and an Arab-American congressman, died in federal prison on November 4th. He was murdered while exercising by a fellow inmate who smashed his skull with a concrete block. While [...]

Sari Nusseibeh and Ami Ayalon spoke this week at the University of Washington campus. Nusseibeh is President of Al Quds University in Abu Dis (East Jerusalem) and a leading Palestinian voice against violence and in favor of a negotiated settlement with Israel. Ami Ayalon is the former head of the Israeli Shin Bet [...]