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Haaretz - Friday September 03, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
"Israeli democracy is mainly for decoration, like a tree grown for its beauty, not to bear fruit. ... If he [a person who wants to protest] participates in the popular struggle against the separation fence, he will be buried outside the fence of the cemetery; if he demonstrates in Sheikh Jarrah, he will feel the heavy hand of the police; if he is a university lecturer, they'll send the watchdogs after him in the name of Zionism; if he belongs to a theater troupe, someone who can still see the Green Line in his mind's eye, they will threaten the source of his income; if he is a school principal who tries not just to support settlements but to inculcate them, they will look for a different institution for him because that is not how we do things; if he is a judge who dares deny that security is of the utmost importance, they will blame him for bloodshed; if he is a journalist who refuses to join in the chorus, there will be cries to boycott his newspaper; if he is a citizen who wishes to protect a child being threatened with expulsion from the country, he too will be blacklisted as an enemy of the people; and a long list remains."
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The Independent - Friday September 03, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Israeli 'settlers' reveal their contempt for the peace process in Washington.
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The Independent - Tuesday August 31, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad says an independent Palestinian state could be possible as soon as 2011, if Israel acknowledges its "moment of reckoning" in the upcoming negotiation process.
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Ottawa Citizen - Friday August 27, 2010 |
CBC - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Thursday August 26, 2010 Good Read Media Researcher Notes
A good summary of the film "Lebanon" and other recent films touching on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The Guardian - Monday August 23, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Pressure from city's ultra-orthodox Jews has already led to some bus lines confining women to the rear of vehicles. The company building a light railway across Jerusalem is considering segregating some carriages along gender lines to serve the city's ultra-orthodox Jewish population.
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The Jerusalem Post - Thursday August 19, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Fifty-six percent of Jewish Israelis believe that "the whole world is against us," according to a recent Peace Index survey published on Thursday.
The Peace Index project is conducted under the auspices of the Evens Program for Conflict Resolution at Tel Aviv University and the Israel Democracy Institute.
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The Independent - Tuesday August 17, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
A former Israeli soldier posts pictures of herself on Facebook with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners.
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The Independent - Tuesday August 10, 2010 |
Haaretz - Monday August 09, 2010 Must Read Media Researcher Notes
"There is no such thing as a Jewish democratic state, just as there is no Muslim democratic state. Religion and democracy can never dwell under one roof."
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The Independent - Monday August 09, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Report on the activities of the 'Jewish morality police' among the ultra-orthodox in Israel.
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By ROBERT FISK, The Independent - Thursday August 05, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
The UN has implied, according to Fisk, that 'the shrubbery that ultimately cost the lives of five men on Tuesday was on the Israeli side of the "Blue Line".'
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By ROBERT FISK, The Independent - Wednesday August 04, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Fisk reports on the causes behind the recent Israel-Lebanon border conflict.
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The Guardian - Tuesday August 03, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
The most widely mentioned text in Israel over the last few weeks has been the famous quotation by Pastor Martin Niemöller from 1946, which begins: "First they came for the Communists".
The increasing persecution of Palestinian citizens has led to verbal threats against Jewish radical left activists, and is now directed at proposed laws against Zionist-left activists, university professors, journalists, artists and others. The warning from the quotation is clear: "Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."
The use of Niemöller's emotive words reflects the increasingly bitter national debate around loyalty and patriotism. The influential foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, whose 15 Knesset members cement the coalition government, is in the process of upgrading his successful election slogan, "no citizenship without loyalty". Several racist bills are awaiting a vote – among them a law to "change all signposts of villages and towns into Hebrew names" (hence denying their Arab names), and another specifying a year in prison for anybody who voices objection to Israel's nature as a Jewish or democratic state.
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By ISABEL KERSHNER, The New York Times - Monday August 02, 2010 |
BBC News - Sunday August 01, 2010 |
By ROBERT FISK, The Independent - Saturday July 31, 2010 Good Read Media Researcher Notes
Fisk questions NATO's support of Israel: "why is Nato supporting a country with an army accused of war crimes?"
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The Jerusalem Post - Friday July 30, 2010 Media Researcher Notes
Elaborating on British Prime Minister David Cameron’s criticisms of Israel’s Gaza policies, the outgoing British Ambassador to Israel, Sir Tom Phillips, has told The Jerusalem Post that Israel needs to do more to help revive the Gaza economy, and that the Israeli blockade policy was counterproductive. “It was breeding radicalism,” he said.
Israel drove Gaza “into a Hamas-controlled tunnel economy, and the Palestinian Gaza private sector has been almost completely destroyed,” Phillips said in a farewell interview on Wednesday. “Young boys on the streets [have had] no role models apart from the Hamas guy in the black shiny uniform on the street corner.”
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The Guardian - Tuesday July 27, 2010 |
The Jerusalem Post - Monday July 26, 2010 Good Read Media Researcher Notes
Israel’s national security and self-preservation as a democracy, if not its very existence, depend on its ability and willingness to come to terms with the reality of coexistence with the Palestinians on the basis of a two-state solution.
Unfortunately, instead of seeking to promote the creation of a Palestinian state, the current government has sought to impede it.
Today, few Israelis view the establishment of a Palestinian state as a national security imperative, and a growing number have resigned themselves to supporting the idea of conflict management rather than conflict resolution.
As Israelis have become disillusioned with the peace process, the country has strengthened its formidable military power and economic development, creating the false impression that it can sustain the status quo indefinitely.
Meanwhile, the settlement movement has gained significant political power, enabling it to exert immense influence on successive governments. The settlers’ commitment to territorial expansion that is driven by a belief in their divine right to settle the West Bank, coupled with widely held deep skepticism about the Palestinians’ intentions that is fueled by legitimate security concerns, have led the public to seemingly become immune to the plight of the Palestinian people.
Against this backdrop, the right-of-center government appears to be committed to disfranchise Palestinians, suppress opposition, undermine democratic values and forsake the moral tenants on which the state was created.
Indeed, there is no internationally orchestrated campaign to delegitimize Israel as many claim. By its own actions and policies, the country itself is doing a very good job at that. Although Hamas has suspended violence following the conclusion of the Gaza war in January 2009, the Netanyahu government has made no effort to explore a possible rapprochement with a group that it dismisses as an irredeemable terrorist organization that must be eliminated. Israel’s and the Palestinians’ long-term security and prosperity are interdependent, and that the establishment of an independent Palestinian state is central to this equation.
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