Items filed under "Israel"

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.

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.

Israelis cancel UK visit over possibility of war crimes charges - The Boston Globe

Mike — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:32:41 -0500

Israeli analysts charge that other examples of “lawfare’’ are condemnations by human rights groups and the UN of Israeli actions against Palestinian militants, especially last winter’s military operation in Gaza that left about 1,400 Palestinians dead, including many civilians, and caused widespread destruction.

Push for binding Jewish law roils Israel - The Boston Globe

Mike — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:34:22 -0500

Opposition lawmaker Haim Oron warned of a “troubling process of Talibanization’’ in Israel.

Gaza Report’s Author, Goldstone, Asks U.S. to List Concerns - NYTimes.com

Mike — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:19:02 -0400

“But I have yet to hear from the Obama administration what the flaws in the report that they have identified are,” Mr. Goldstone said. “I mean, I would be happy to respond to them, if and when I know what they are.”

Inquiry Finds Gaza War Crimes From Both Sides - NYTimes.com

Mike — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:27:49 -0400

The report called Israel’s military assault on Gaza “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”

World Digest - washingtonpost.com

Mike — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:04:04 -0400

In a response, the Israeli military said a white flag did not always shield someone from attack.

President Obama Isn't Â?Tough on Israel' - washingtonpost.com

Mike — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:47:16 -0400

Mr. Obama won't even talk to the duly elected representative of the Palestinians, Hamas, and has said precious little and done nothing about Israel's three-year siege of the 1.5 million residents of Gaza and Israel's apartheid wall through the West Bank.

The Making of an Iran Policy - NYTimes.com

Mike — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:37:26 -0400

Israel, which sees an existential threat in a nuclear Iran, has made clear that its patience is limited. The Ross team does not think Israelis are bluffing. They believe Israel views Iran in life-and-death terms. Israeli officials have argued that they don’t believe Iran would ever be crazy enough to nuke them but do believe the change in the balance of power with a nuclear or near-nuclear Iran could be so decisive that Jews would begin to leave Israel.