Author: shergald

A Last Chance at Middle East Peace?

Some recent opinions suggest that AIPAC shot its wad by bringing down the Freeman nomination and will now recede into the background, no longer capable of influencing Israeli-American relations. But is AIPAC really flinching at...

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Israeli Apartheid Week and hasbara rejoinders

Thanks to Phillip Weiss of Mondoweiss for drawing attention to the following contrasting videos about Israeli Apartheid Week and the many educational videos that are being used to defend Israel’s actions not only in Gaza,...

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Dershowitz strikes back: it’s anti-Semitism

Dershowitz shops at Leviev, who funds settlement building in the West Bank. When Hampshire College voted to divest from Israel a few weeks ago, it was predictable that Alan Dershowitz, a professed liberal and progressive, who...

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No pasta for Palestinians

Uri Avnery, founder of Gusn Shalom, the Israeli peace activist group, once predict that America will eventually turn against Israel on grounds of its human rights abuses, but like a large ship in the ocean, its turn will be...

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