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

JTA published today a mini-story on the Los Angeles Israeli consul general’s report savagely criticizing Israeli refusenik groups for speaking in the U.S. against the Israeli Occupation. Unfortunately, the impetus for their story came from a rambling press release by Mort Klein of the ZOA full of scurrilous propaganda against the Union of Progressive [...]

Headline of scurrilous Yediot article: “U.S. Palestinian Groups Bankroll Refuseniks” (scan courtesy Amir Terkel)
Thanks especially to Amir Terkel (and also Judith Kolokoff), I was the first news source outside Israel to report that Israel’s Los Angeles consul general, Ehud Danoch, smeared Brit Tzedek, Combatants for Peace, and Breaking the Silence, accusing their national tours of [...]

The NY Times reports that the UN’s Lebanon peacekeeping mission has run into major resistance from some of the European nations expected to contribute forces to it:
The shaky, United Nations-brokered cease-fire in Lebanon suffered another blow on Sunday when the European countries that had been called upon to provide the backbone of a peacekeeping force [...]

Menachem Klein, senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University and currently visiting professor at MIT, joins a long and growing list of prominent Israeli analysts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who scorn Ehud Olmert’s new “plan” to fix Israel’s permanent borders without consulting the Palestinians and against the opposition of the [...]