The film, Dr. Strangelove bears the subtitle, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. An alternate, somewhat subversive title for this post might be: "How Israelis Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Right of Return." 972 Magazine published a post by Tom Pessah which advocated for full recognition of Palestinian Right of Return (ROR). … [Read more...]
Al Aqsa Intifada Begins in Bloody Earnest, Six Dead in Palestine
Today was the day many of us dreaded. Tension has been building all week since the murder of two Israeli police officers and the liquidation of their Palestinian attackers at the Haram al Sharif. Israel's immediate response to seal off the entire Old City for three days along with the Muslim holy sites, and then reopen them with metal detectors and … [Read more...]
History of Israeli Far-Right Collusion with Both Hitler and Stalin
It's fairly well-known that both Yishuv political movements, the far-right and socialist left, collaborated (or proposed collaborating) with the Nazis when it appeared they could win WWII. In the 1930s, Chaim Arlosoroff, on behalf of Ben Gurion's Mapai, negotiated the Haavara Agreement with the Nazis. The property and valuables of Jews who fled Nazi … [Read more...]
Israel’s Outrage Du Jour: Denying Palestinian Boy Terror Victim Status After He Survived Family’s Incineration
Yesterday brought not one outrage du jour, but two from Israel. Defense minister Avigdor Lieberman denied 8 year-old Ahmed Dawabshe's application for the official compensation offered all Israeli Jewish terror victims. The little boy's father, mother and baby brother were all burned to death by Jewish settler terrorists. The attackers haven't even been … [Read more...]
