Turns out Danny Ayalon’s video about the West Bank and its settlements revealed a few weeks ago is an almost exact replica of a video put out by YESHA Council, the organisation that represents and lobbies for the settlers, back in May. Gal Beckerman asks, “Should we not be concerned when the foreign ministry of Israel is using the same propaganda as the settlers? Or should we just assume that their interests are one?”
Related reading:Tags: Danny Ayalon, Israel, Middle East Conflict, Occupation, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Right-wing Zionism, School, Video, YESHA Council, Zionism Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/07/28/remember-danny-ayalons-video-its-a-replica-of-one-yesha-council-used-a-few-months-ago/
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in an address to the ether on YouTube, in a production co-sponsored by StandWithUs. When the government produces videos like this, which are just so out of step with how most of the rest of the world is thinking, it points to serious problems (delusions?) in Ayalon’s camp. Oh, and I love how he pulls a Michele Bachmann for half of it.
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What a wonderful bunch of people they are in Gaza. The Hamas government in Gaza has begun enforcing a law introduced last year banning men from cutting women’s hair. Until now, the law had not been enforced, but this week at least one male hairdresser in Gaza was arrested. Male hairdressers for women are regarded by many Muslims as against Islamic tradition. The move is seen as an attempt to [...]
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Exploring Jerusalem in two events last week – a tour of east Jerusalem I went on, and a weekly Sheikh Jarrah protest I attended. I came to understand the on-the-ground inequality of the Israeli-provided education system (6% of Palestinians children don’t go to school because Israel refuses to provide the extra 1000 classrooms they require) as well as the inherent injustice in land claims made by Jews in Palestinian east Jerusalem.
Tags: Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, Gilo, Israel, Jerusalem, Occupation, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Peace Process, Settlements, Sheikh Jarrah, Zionism Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2011/06/13/postcard-from-palestinian-east-jerusalem/
Yep, you read that right. A West Bank mosque was torched and vandalised last week, as reported by Ynetnews. It’s a very low act, apparently in retaliation for the evacuation of an illegal settlement nearby the week before. But instead of suspecting that a group of fellow settlers exacting revenge (it’s not like there were any hints, except, you know, that the name of the town and “price tag” were [...]
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Two things are key in reading this op-ed in Ha’aretz from leading Holocaust historian Daniel Blatman. The first is that Blatman is one of the most eminent Holocaust researchers and thinkers in the world, having been a fellow at both Yad Vashem at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The second is that Blatman isn’t saying Israeli is an apartheid state; rather, he’s highlighting the recent multitude of bills to [...]
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According to Ha’aretz, at a school in Israel, final year school kids took part in a pretty disgusting exercise: Twelfth-grade students from Herzliya’s Hayovel High School took part in a simulated shooting attack in which the targets were figures decked out with the Arab keffiyeh headdress, Haaretz has learned. The incident took place at a military base last week during the annual 12th grade trip. The students were being escorted [...]
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Joe Klein at Time Magazine went to the West Bank to meet some young, educated Palestinians who are going to be asking the Israelis exactly that. Israel (and Western Jews) are excellent at mis-casting Israelis as David, something possible when suicide bombers are terrorising Jerusalem commuters. But it’s difficult to put down a peaceful protest with military uniforms, something that Israel will no doubt try to do if something like [...]
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Yesterday was perhaps the most content-intense and potentially controversial day at J Street thus far. It was also probably my most enjoyable day. (You can read my previous dispatches on my blog.) In the morning, the Obama administration, having been asked to provide someone to speak at the conference, dispatched negotiator Dennis Ross. In break-out sessions in the afternoon, issues of Palestinian statehood and the boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) [...]
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Labor senator Doug Cameron spoke Wednesday in the Senate about the Palestinian desire for self-determination, the “the injustices inflicted on Palestinians” and where he sees the situation. It’s very interesting to see this happen, and is one of the most balanced and reasonable speeches I’ve seen. His speech rightly characterised the occupation in the West Bank and the blockade in Gaza as detrimental (to say the least) to Palestinians, and [...]
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