Palestine From Different Eyes

Therefore, it is only logical to claim that if an Israeli is guilty of mass murder, then so is a Palestinian, and the variation between the damage inflicted is related to the variation in armament.

I.e. were the Palestinians to have an army like Israel, the Palestinians would have killed just as many Israelis!

You Can Never Start too Early…

A young Israeli settler has discovered new uses for wine, I mean if you are not gonna drink that kosher wine….this young gun is a pioneer he is telling us that kids do not need to drink to try to pull crazy stunts. He is tossing his wine and making a statement. But he should know better growing up in Brooklyn and coming to Palestine to hassle the natives.

“But Abba, I Love Him!”

An article I read today made me ask the question: Why is it always the Israeli guy who gets the Palestinian girl?

These past few years, several film directors have focused on such a forbidden love relationship between an Israeli guy and a Palestinian girl to serve as the main story of their sometimes funny and dramatic cinematic productions.

Some of these award winning films include West Bank Story where an IDF soldier falls in love with the beautiful Hummus Hut cashier; Strangers, where an normal Israeli guy and a typical Palestinian girl from Ramallah meet onboard a train on their way to 2006 World Cup, only to be separated and driven apart as the 2006 Hezbollah war breaks out and the guy returns home as a Reserve in the IDF; and the most recent production, David and Fatima where yet another IDF soldier meets and falls in love with a local Palestinian girl.

Bingo Bucks for Israeli Settlements

Recently, the Obama administration has come out saying that it views illegal Israeli outposts and Israeli construction in East Jerusalem as one in the same.  The latest project to undermine Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem is the proposed construction of 20 apartments in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.  This prompted the State Department to summon the [...]

My response to Allison Speiser

Haaretz published an article by a woman named Allison Speiser the other day in which she explains her reasons for moving into an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. Read her article here. This is my response: Ms Speiser,You paint a very moving picture of a woman – a wife, a mother – [...]

Israel as the Old West

Today’s gruesome attack in a settlement, in which a man wielding an ax killed a teenage Israeli and wounded a child, brought to mind the image of the old American west. The settlers who founded the United States expanded West and in the process faced hostile natives, the narrative goes. The colonists circled the wagons [...]

Challenging the Tax-Exempt Status that Aids Israeli Settler Groups

Following a post on Mondoweiss and a David Ignatius column in the Washington Post on how groups that support Israeli settlers receive tax-exempt status, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee filed an official complaint with the Treasury Department. ADC’s press release indicated the group filed multiple administrative complaints with the US Department of the Treasury, including the [...]

Billions down the drain

The just concluded Sharm al-Sheikh summit for the ‘reconstruction’ of Gaza was the international community’s attempt to wash its hands from the crimes perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian refugee population in the Gaza Strip last January. $4.7 billion dollars were pledged, leaders chided the Palestinians for not capitulating to their occupier and on the [...]

While the whole world was preoccupied with Gaza…

Just like it used Election Day in the U.S. as a chance to break the ceasefire, Israel used the Gaza invasion as a chance to confiscate even more West Bank land. Land confiscations in the West Bank are continuing, said Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs Jamal Bawatneh, and soon “there will be no land [...]

West Bank settler officially invited to Obama inaugural

Ariel Lang, a 22-year-old settler in the West Bank, has been officially invited to attend Barack Obama’s inauguration in Washington on January 20. Lang, who immigrated from Chicago to Israel as a child and thinks that US President George W. Bush “wants to destroy Israel,” voted by absentee ballot for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. [...]