By Israel’s security barrier It gets a little frustrating when you’re assigned a certain role, given a certain job description, and then don’t get a chance to perform that job. I’m sure you can understand how I feel after years ...
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Feed SubscriptionThe 1967 Lines Are Sacrosanct Unless Palestinians Violate Them
By Stan Dartkafuhl, legal scholar The position of the international community on the subject of the 1949 armistice lines between Israel and Jordan, and between Israel and Egypt, has long been clear: Israeli control of any territories beyond those lines ...
Read More »Those Syrians Have Some Gall, Getting Gassed While We’re Trying To Attract Attention
By Yahya Sinwar The Great Return March, known by various similar names, has been going on for more than a week already, and the intense planning that went into it now appears to have gone to waste, all because those ...
Read More »If You Want To Make It In Journalism, Rookie, Don’t Treat Wild Palestinian Claims With Skepticism
By Chris Hayes McNeil, this is your first big assignment. You want to jump start your career in Gaza, and it’s the perfect venue for such an ambitious goal. But you’ve made a rookie mistake, and I’m here to take ...
Read More »Stereotypes Are Bad Unless You’re A Progressive Enforcing Adherence To Them
By Linda Sarsour We all agree stereotypes are horrible, with ethnic stereotypes being the worst of the worst. For that reason, we must always avoid falling into the trap of stereotypes, except when conforming to them becomes a signal of ...
Read More »Jews Don’t Control the Weather? What Do You Call The Ten Plagues?
by Trayon White, Washington, DC Council member Listen, I know it was bad form to engage in antisemitic tropes and portray the Jews as a monolithic, sinister, all-powerful group. I apologized – of course I apologized; it would be wrong ...
Read More »What Is This ‘Elections’ Of Which You Israelis Speak?
By Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority Ramallah, March 14 – Much of the recent discussion of current affairs in Israeli media over the last week has centered on various squabbles among the parties in the prime minister’s governing coalition, and ...
Read More »We Make Sure The Number Of Buns And Franks Don’t Match. We’re The Mossad.
By the Mossad Ever wonder why you always seem to have a different number of Tupperware containers from the number of lids? Or why hot dogs come in packages of 12 but hot dog buns come in packages of 8? ...
Read More »Glorifying Child Martyrdom? How Dare You! That’s- Oh, By Palestinians? Cool.
By Ken Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch President Erdogan of Turkey crossed all lines of decency and morality when he encouraged a young girl to sacrifice herself in combat for Islam and for Turkey. Children must remain outside the boundaries ...
Read More »Another Harry Potter Metaphor Is What This Debate Needs
By Klee Schay Our discussion of this set of important issues has proceeded well enough, ladies and gentlemen, but no one is going to change his or her mind based merely on a rehashing of familiar points, as cleverly as ...
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