Crack! Fizz! Then, even more alarmingly, WOOMF!! We can’t see what’s happening, but for the South African journalists tagging along it sounds ominously familiar. ---- A pitiless sun above, white dust and plastic litter underfoot, dry-stone walls, prickly pear thickets, ancient olive groves. ----...

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This is how politics works: you don’t give a message, you send it. That’s why politicians are always banging on about ’sending a message’. Take Gordon Brown and his trip to Palestine and Israel. Yesterday while in Bethlehem at a press conference with Palestinian President Mah...

News Item: [British Prime Minister Gordon] Brown told reporters that Britain will always be a genuine friend of Israel, and guaranteed that the Jewish State’s security is of top concern for the United Kingdom. He added that he understood the obstacles [in the region], but “also the oppor...

I'm having an amazing summer. Jerusalem is, in my friend Megan's words, "catnip for liberal rabbis," and it's possible to have experiences here that one can't really have anywhere else. Davening at the Kotel, walking the streets of the Old City, learning from and with rabbis from across the Jewish s...

Tidligere pÃ¥ ugen byttede Israel fem tilfangetagne Hezbollah-terrorister med ligene af to døde israelske soldater. En af de frigivne var Samir Kuntar. Han myrdede uskyldige… (Washington Times 8/8-06). “In 1979, Kuntar, then 16, was among four terrorists who reached the northern Israeli...

20/07/2008 - 12:29 AMby Khalid Amayreh This week, Israel sank in an avalanche of national lethargy, hypocrisy and self-righteousness. Seeking to cope with Hezbullah’s success in getting Israel to release all Lebanese prisoners, dead and living, in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers, ...

July 20, 2008 Elaine Meinel Supkis As usual, the hypocritical Pope can't resist talking to us about materialism from either balconies of the world's biggest, fanciest palace in Rome or from helicopters, etc. This naked clash of messages, the medium being tremendous wealth and power lecturing the 'li...

Deborah Solomon interviews Dan Gillerman, Israel's departing ambassador to the United Nations, in the Times Sunday Magazine. (Solomon's questions in bold) The Bush administration, it seems, has not done much to advance the Mideast peace process. Would you agree? I think the key is in the Arab world....

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/60yearsofdivision/2008/07/20087199114777437.html The Nakba in al-Ramla By Sandy Tolan An elderly Palestinian woman remembers the Nakba [GALLO/GETTY] The Nakba in al-Ramla is the second part of Sandy Tolan's account of the fall of an Arab town in July 1948 and the e...