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Ofir Akunis (photo: Yotam Ronen / activestills.org)

Likud MK: Settlement construction is good for peace with Palestinians

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Ofir Akunis took Netanyahu’s position that settlement construction is not an impediment to a negotiated solution with the Palestinians to a whole new level. According to a report in Haaretz Tuesday: … [Akunis asserted] that past experience has shown that a halt to construction has only driven the Palestinians away from…

By Mairav Zonszein June 11, 2013

Netanyahu, Abbas and Clinton, September 2010. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

In response to Palestinian statehood bid, government issues empty threats

Foreign Minister Lieberman may offer the Palestinians a ‘temporary state’ with no borders, which actually translates to no state at all. The Israeli government is so threatened by the Palestinian Authority’s bid to go to the UN in order to achieve non-member observer state status, that it has gone through a series of moves in…

By Mairav Zonszein November 14, 2012

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Will ‘Bieberman’ bring down Netanyahu sooner than he thinks?

The reappearance of some veteran politicians on the scene had Netanyahu worried enough to merge with Lieberman. But while Bibi may be ensured another term, he will ultimately pay for the toll of his economic and political policies on Israelis and Palestinians. By Yacov Ben Efrat Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for early elections initially evoked an…

By +972 Magazine October 30, 2012

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Suspending officer who hit Danish protester isn’t enough

By Ophir Pines-Paz On one hand, the storm of condemnations by the top levels of government and now the suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner from his position for beating an apparently unarmed Danish protester with his weapon, is the right response. On the other hand, this response is cynical and problematic, on several major…

By +972 Magazine April 19, 2012

Tel Aviv gives Turkey cause for war

There has been plenty of sabre rattling between Israel and Turkey over the past couple of weeks, up to and including with the Turkish Air Force de-registering Israeli warplanes from their flight computers’ friend/foe lists. But it is plucky little Tel Aviv that’s contemplating a move that might just prove the last straw for Ankara.…

By Dimi Reider September 14, 2011

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Yisrael Beiteinu MK: Tent organizers are like Palestinians

MK Faina Kirshenbaum from Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu Party – the same MK responsible for proposing the bill to establish parliamentary committees to investigate the funding of NGOs in Israel – was quoted today in Israel’s Ynet as saying that the tent protest organizers remind her of Palestinians. I’m paraphrasing and translating: The tent leaders’ demands…

By Mairav Zonszein August 15, 2011

No clarification about the Goldstone report will wipe away the stain of Cast Lead

Goldstone clarifications: Just another distraction

Shortly after the Goldstone Report was published, a wealthy American Jewish woman at a New York cocktail event leaned in to tell me how horrible the report is. Waving her jeweled hands, she keened: “We’re living in a nightmare!” Israeli society seemed to feel the same. The Goldstone Report has been viewed as a turning…

By Dahlia Scheindlin April 3, 2011

Preparing public opinion for ethnic cleansing

Not too long ago, Peter Beinart chastised the American-Jewish establishment for stretching the ostensible bond between liberal values and Zionism ever-closer to breaking point, and serving as enablers for ultra-right trends that would eventually destroy Israel as a democratic state. In particular, Beinart slammed the Jewish leadership’s attempts to smooth out the image of Avigdor Lieberman:…

By Dimi Reider November 2, 2010

Introducing ethnic cleansing

NOTE: This post has been twice hijacked and copied without permission by what seems to be a decidedly anti-Semitic website. If you know “Novanews”, who runs “Shoah: The Palestinian Holocaust“, please let me know. Read more here. I disagree (for once) with my Rt. Hon. Friend Noam Sheizaf. As you may have read, Noam reported on…

By Dimi Reider October 9, 2010

Demonstrating in Sheikh Jarrah. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Notes from the suicide watch

Reopening 1948: Israel made another step towards a transformation into a bi-national state Sunday, when the Supreme Court legitimized the Palestinian right of return. Naturally, that’s not what the Court had in mind, but that was the result. The Court decided that a large part of the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood belongs to the heirs (and…

By Yossi Gurvitz September 30, 2010