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The Telegraph By: Adrian Blomfield / 15th November 2011 / / Members of the Kadima, the principal opposition party, waved black flags to mourn the "death of democracy" after Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed two bills that will tilt the balance of the country's Supreme Court sharply to the right. / / The legislators involved in the protest had their flags confiscated before being expelled from the Knesset's chamber at the orders of the speaker. / / The passage of the bills has prompted outrage among many Israeli politicians who see them as an assault on the independence.. Location: Deconstruction |
The Faster Times / To paraphrase a piece of Greek mythology, it was the government that stopped a dozen or so ships. / / Greece dispatched coast guard sailors and successfully stalled Flotilla 2.0 from leaving port, an action that all but ensures that there will be no round two for the Free Gaza organizers who intended to break the Israeli blockade on the Hamas-ruled fiefdom again, a strip roughly the size of Detroit. Last year, Turkey was the host of the first aid flotilla, which after an encounter with the Israeli navy in international waters left nine activists onboard killed, including a 19-year-old.. Location: Deconstruction |
Haaretz Editorial Staff - May 23, 2011 / / Lots of high-sounding words were uttered over the weekend. There was U.S. President Barack Obama's speech, in which he welcomed the civil revolutions in the Middle East and sketched the outlines of the best diplomatic plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Then came the unabashed longing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for peace on his terms. But the cascades of verbiage did not produce concord between Israel and the United States - to the point where it's hard to decide which disagreement is greater, between Israel and the Palestinians.. Location: Deconstruction |
The Economist Israel's Jewish identity / The state we're in / Mar 17th 2011, 9:07 by D.L. | JERUSALEM / / / PERHAPS because herring was a respected staple in the Eastern European Jewish shtetl, there is no literal translation in Yiddish of the English phrase, "red herring". Instead, Yiddish-speaking Jews use the expression "climbing up the smooth walls" to accuse someone of coming up with superfluous and irrelevant arguments in order to cloud the issue. / / That expression, which has made its way into Hebrew, comes to mind whenever you hear—as you.. Location: Deconstruction |
/ / JNI / / / The 2009 election saw the ascension of the "Right wing" party-bloc, with Likud, Yisrael Beitenu, Shas, United Torah Judaism, National Union, and Bayit Hayehudi receiving 60% of the Jewish vote.1 Approximately 13% voted for parties of the Zionist Left. At the same time, statistics, studies, and voting results show that the Israeli electorate does not fit so neatly into convenient definitions of Right and Left. In 3 separate polls extending from after the ‘09 election till June 2010, between 55%-58% of Jewish Israelis supported the 2-state solution.2 What's.. Location: Featured Articles |
New York Times / In Israel, the Noble vs. The Ugly / / Nicholas Kristoff / / / / Israel goes out of its way to display its ugliest side to the world by tearing down Palestinian homes or allowing rapacious settlers to steal Palestinian land. / / / Yet there’s also another Israel as well, one that I mightily admire. This is the democracy that tolerates a far greater range of opinions than America. It’s a citadel of civil society. And, crazily, it’s the place where some of the most courageous and effective voices on behalf of oppressed Palestinians belong to Israeli rabbis.. Location: Deconstruction |
The Daily Beast / / / / / / Normal / 0 / 21 / / / / / / / The Daily Beast / Kai Bird / Published March 22nd 2010 / / As a young boy in the autumn of 1956, I was forced to leave our house in Sheikh Jarrah—the neighborhood that today has become the latest battleground over the building of settlements in East Jerusalem. My father was then an American diplomat stationed in East Jerusalem. But when Israel, Britain, and France launched a surprise invasion of Egypt on October 29, 1956, my mother, sister, and I were evacuated to Beirut, leaving father behind to tend to the business of the.. Location: Deconstruction |
JNI - March 24, 2010 A number of observers have pointed out that the recent so-called “crisis” between Israel and the US over Jerusalem has been artificially flavored by the Obama administration's issuing of unreasonable and, even, unhelpful demands. / / And despite the fact that the issue is relatively obscure – not touching on holy sites or on questions of future borders (as Ramat Shlomo, the neighborhood concerned in the original flap, consists of 20,000 Jews and has never been considered up-for-grabs in any final status negotiation) – and has produced no real violence, the issue is.. Location: Deconstruction |
"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own." / / / "Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief." |
New York Times The New York Times again reveals its long-held prejudice that Arabs are the world's perennially helpless victims. Location: Deconstruction |
American-backed "Israel Today" usurped Ma'ariv as the country's number two newspaper. Location: In the Media |
Haaretz Author: Gideon Levy / Date of Pub: 29/11/2009 / / Those types have always been seen on big-city streets, talking to themselves, asking and answering, shouting, speaking in a low voice, deliberating and pontificating. As children, we were afraid of them. They were "crazy." That's exactly what Israeli public discourse is like. We are talking to ourselves, inventing bogus axioms and sticking with them as if they were decreed from on high, convinced that the whole world accepts them. But we are only talking to ourselves. No one else accepts them. The Israeli collective is not only.. Location: Deconstruction |
 Rav. Norman Lamm The Shema has been a central prayer in Jewish ritual and the foci of Jewish faith. For centuries, Jews have uttered these sentences that affirmed the Israelite God's unity as their final words before death, always beginning and ending each day with this prayer.
Using the Shema as his focus, Norman Lamm, a revered Orthodox scholar and long-time president of Yeshiva University, explores the relationship between spirituality and law in Judaism. Lamm goes line by line through the Shema, pointing out how various commentators and Jewish philosophy have addressed each line over the centuries. Location: Suggested Reading |
Economist | Print Edition Oct 15th 2009 | AL-MUGHAYIR / / Palestinian farmers / Not much of an olive branch / / The plight of rural Palestinians on the West Bank is as grim as ever / / / / “WHAT did the trees do?” says Muhammad Abu Awad, a retired teacher of agriculture and father of 14 children, as he looks gloomily at his ravaged field. Twisted, silvery stubs are all that remain of a lush grove that once offered up a yearly abundance of fat green olives. / / The vandals came at night from Adei Ad, a Jewish settlers’ outpost deemed “illegal” even.. Location: Deconstruction |
The Guardian Author: Matt Kennard / Date of Publishing: 5th August, 2009 / / A couple of months ago I spent a fortnight in Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement – activists who help Palestinians non-violently resist Israeli oppression. The most pressing of many issues during my stay was the attempts by an Israeli settler company, Nahalat Shimon, backed by the Israeli courts, to cleanse East Jerusalem of its Arab population, focusing its efforts at that time on the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. / / I spent a week sleeping on a floor in the house of the Hanoun family –.. Location: Deconstruction |
 After what was described as an Israeli "massacre" of Palestinians at Jenin on the West Bank in 2002, the following scene of a "funeral" procession was caught on tape by an overhead Israeli drone. It shows the "corpse" falling off the stretcher as he is carried to his "funeral" only to get up and climb back on.
This is a clip from "Pallywood" by Seconddraft.org which documents Palestinian efforts to deceive unquestioning lamestream media throughout the world.
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/ / / / / Azerbaijan / / / / / Azerbaijan presents Israel with a major strategic relations opportunity. Look to the JNI paper about specific policy recommendations for Israel with regard to Azerbaijan, as well as China, India, Georgia, and Turkey. The MEF piece discusses the importance of continuing strong Jerusalem-Baku relations, especially in light of Russian and Iranian belligerence. .. Location: Featured Articles > Archive |
Richard Baehr Palestinian polls show overwhelming support for violence against Israeli civilians. Richard Baehr intones. Location: Links |
 J.S. Mill J.S. Mill's seminal theory of government in which the British political philosopher argues that proportional and representative government is the best form of social organization. "Considerations" holds important lessons for the development and furtherance of Israeli democracy and governance. Location: Suggested Reading |
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