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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 |
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 |
New York Times The New York Times again reveals its long-held prejudice that Arabs are the world's perennially helpless victims. Location: Deconstruction |
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 |
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 |
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