Items filed under "Israel-Palestine"

Deaths in Gaza - NYTimes.com

Mike — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:15:44 -0500

“When Illusions Are All” (Week in Review, Nov. 21), an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, says, “It is worth noting that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been largely drained of deadly violence in the past few years.”

Peretz, Thomas, and the Middle East double standard - The Boston Globe

Mike — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:50:46 -0400

What explains the difference between the two cases is, precisely as Kurtz suggested, the double standard that exists with regard to Jews and Israel on one hand, and Palestinians on the other. Statements that would never be tolerated against Jews or Israel are regularly made and tolerated against Palestinians.

Op-Ed Columnist - Peace Talks? What’s on TV? - NYTimes.com

Mike — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:02:42 -0400

“This used to be a very, very political society and it no longer is,” said Tom Segev, the Israeli historian. “Israel has gone through a deep change. People don’t trust politics, they don’t really believe in peace and the million recent arrivals from the former Soviet Union didn’t bring democratic values. Democracy is weaker.”

Clinton - Both Sides Must Move on Jewish Settlements - NYTimes.com

Mike — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:02:08 -0400

Clinton put some of the onus on the Palestinians to take unspecified steps to help Netanyahu to extend the freeze.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Forgotten American - NYTimes.com

Mike — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:59:55 -0400

This chill is a bad thing. Let’s do whatever it takes to find out how Dogan died — and the eight other victims. The Middle East requires more open debate and the dropping of taboos. It needs the leading institutions of American Jewry to encourage broad discussion rather than, as Peter Beinart put it in an important recent essay in The New York Review of Books, checking “their liberalism at Zionism’s door.”

Despite diplomatic tensions, U.S.-Israeli security ties strengthen

Mike — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:58:49 -0400

Under an agreement signed toward the end of the Bush administration, annual U.S. military assistance to Israel has been boosted from $2.5 billion in 2009 to $3 billion in 2011, meaning that almost a quarter of Israel's actual defense expenditures comes from the United States, according to Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Obama's Iron Dome money would be on top of that largesse, already the most military assistance to any country.

Hemmed-In Gazans Find Themselves Locked in Despair - NYTimes.com

Mike — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:58:58 -0400

“Our play does not mean we hate Israel,” said Abdel Qader Ismail, 24, a former employee of the military intelligence service, with no trace of irony. “We believe in Israel’s right to exist, but not on the land of Palestine. In France or in Russia, but not in Palestine. This is our home.”

Op-Ed Columnist - Burrowing Through a Blockade - NYTimes.com

Mike — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:12:40 -0400

So if the present policy has failed utterly — even backfired by possibly bolstering Hamas — let’s start over. It’s time not just to ease the siege of Gaza, but to end it once and for all.

Op-Ed Columnist - The Two Sides of a Barbed-Wire Fence - NYTimes.com

Mike — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:28:08 -0400

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank is widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and costly to the country’s image. But one more blunt truth must be acknowledged: the occupation is morally repugnant.

Editorial - What Happened on the Mavi Marmara? - NYTimes.com

Mike — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:08:55 -0400

The Israelis claim that Insani Yardim Vakfi is a dangerous organization with terrorist links. They have yet to offer any evidence to support that charge.