A new poll (if anyone can find the full poll results please let me know) of Israeli Jews by Camil Fuchs and commissioned by the New Israel Fund has alarming findings concerning the deterioration of democratic values in Israel. Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz that Israelis (Jews) have largely shed their previous veneer of democratic values and now hold views … [Read more...]
Nahum Barnea: Settlers Have Won, Two States are Dead
Nahum Barnea is Israel's most respected daily columnist. He is something akin to Tom Friedman. Everyone reads him and his columns are a barometer of where centrist-mainstream political sentiment lies. He provokes both the right and the left with his coverage and always comes down somewhere in the center. I'd call him a realist or pragmatist. That's … [Read more...]
Does Sheldon Adelson Support Genocide or Population Transfer of Palestinians?
I was just reading a 2007 interview Sheldon Adelson gave to the Kahanist Jewish Press. In it, he rejects the idea of a two-state solution, which is not news. But the rejection of any rights for the Palestinian people, and his imputation of genocidal intentions to the Palestinians raises the question: how would Adelson resolve the conflict? In fact, I … [Read more...]
Kristallnacht=Price Tag
Gilad Meltzer offers a comparison between the latter-day tactics of Muslim-hating settler fanatics and an earlier historical tragedy: "In 1930s Germany when they burned synagogues they called it 'Kristallnacht.' Here [in Israel] we've moved to the language of capitalism: 'price tag.'" A bit of historical context: when Kristallnacht happened in 1938, no one … [Read more...]