America’s Multiracial Baby Boom, Coming to Israel…Ever? Jews & Judaism Mideast Peace Politics & Society America’s Multiracial Baby Boom, Coming to Israel…Ever? Richard Silverstein January 31, 2011 The NY Times reported this week on a rising demographic phenomenon in American life: multiracialism. One in... Read More Read more about America’s Multiracial Baby Boom, Coming to Israel…Ever?
Real ‘Birth Pangs of a New Middle East’ Mideast Peace Real ‘Birth Pangs of a New Middle East’ Richard Silverstein January 31, 2011 “Birth pangs” of Condi Rice’s “new Middle East” (Beirut airport: 2006) The real birth pangs of a... Read More Read more about Real ‘Birth Pangs of a New Middle East’
Amnesty International Condemns Makhoul Sentence Mideast Peace Amnesty International Condemns Makhoul Sentence Richard Silverstein January 31, 2011 An Amnesty press release: Amnesty International Calls Jailing of Human Rights Defender in Israel “Very Disturbing” (London)... Read More Read more about Amnesty International Condemns Makhoul Sentence
Makhoul Sentenced to 9 Years, Israeli Democracy Dies Yet Another Death Mideast Peace Makhoul Sentenced to 9 Years, Israeli Democracy Dies Yet Another Death Richard Silverstein January 30, 2011 Ameer Makhoul, Israeli-Palestinian community leader, was sentenced by an Israeli court to nine years in prison for... Read More Read more about Makhoul Sentenced to 9 Years, Israeli Democracy Dies Yet Another Death
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Arab Democracy Threatens Israel Mideast Peace Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Arab Democracy Threatens Israel Richard Silverstein January 30, 2011 Deputy Israeli prime minister Silvan Shalom made a telling comment in an Israel Radio interview that was... Read More Read more about Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Arab Democracy Threatens Israel
Teheran 2009: Precursor of Middle Eastern Revolutions Mideast Peace Teheran 2009: Precursor of Middle Eastern Revolutions Richard Silverstein January 29, 2011 In all the coverage I’ve read of the Tunisian and impending Egyptian political revolutions I haven’t read... Read More Read more about Teheran 2009: Precursor of Middle Eastern Revolutions
Israel Decries Militant Arms Caches in Schools, Mosques: Pot Calls Kettle… Mideast Peace Israel Decries Militant Arms Caches in Schools, Mosques: Pot Calls Kettle… Richard Silverstein January 27, 2011 You know the drill: Hamas and Hezbollah commit the cowardly and unpardonable sin of hiding weapons caches... Read More Read more about Israel Decries Militant Arms Caches in Schools, Mosques: Pot Calls Kettle…
‘Iranium’ Heritage Foundation Premiere, Iranian Star of Film: ‘If U.S. Won’t Bomb Iran, Israel Should’ Mideast Peace Politics & Society ‘Iranium’ Heritage Foundation Premiere, Iranian Star of Film: ‘If U.S. Won’t Bomb Iran, Israel Should’ Richard Silverstein January 27, 2011 Now, the moment so many of you have all been waiting for: the première of Clarion Fund/Aish... Read More Read more about ‘Iranium’ Heritage Foundation Premiere, Iranian Star of Film: ‘If U.S. Won’t Bomb Iran, Israel Should’
Kahanist Orthodox Right Seeks to Make Israeli Commerce Arabrein Mideast Peace Kahanist Orthodox Right Seeks to Make Israeli Commerce Arabrein Richard Silverstein January 26, 2011 In Germany, Nazis were proud to empty important segments of society of Jews and make them Judenrein.... Read More Read more about Kahanist Orthodox Right Seeks to Make Israeli Commerce Arabrein
Goldberg-Ibish: Peace Process Not Lost, Bibi-Abbas Can Still Pull Iron Out of Fire Mideast Peace Politics & Society Goldberg-Ibish: Peace Process Not Lost, Bibi-Abbas Can Still Pull Iron Out of Fire Richard Silverstein January 26, 2011 Jeffrey Goldberg and Hussein Ibish published an absurd op-ed in today’s N.Y. Times touting the ‘radical’ idea... Read More Read more about Goldberg-Ibish: Peace Process Not Lost, Bibi-Abbas Can Still Pull Iron Out of Fire
Palestine Papers: PA Collaborated With Israel to Kill Fatah Militants Mideast Peace Palestine Papers: PA Collaborated With Israel to Kill Fatah Militants Richard Silverstein January 25, 2011 Now I see why Fatah protesters occupied Al Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah yesterday. Today’s publication of the... Read More Read more about Palestine Papers: PA Collaborated With Israel to Kill Fatah Militants
Palestine Papers: Herzl Suggested Jews Resettle in Uganda, Condi Suggested Palestinians to Argentina Mideast Peace Palestine Papers: Herzl Suggested Jews Resettle in Uganda, Condi Suggested Palestinians to Argentina Richard Silverstein January 25, 2011 I swear, the longer I watch this Israeli-Palestinian conflict the more the nutty ideas of the past... Read More Read more about Palestine Papers: Herzl Suggested Jews Resettle in Uganda, Condi Suggested Palestinians to Argentina