That’s what Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow implied when she stated that there was a spiritual significance in the timing of her late husband’s exhumation, just two days before...
Tag - Palestine
6 Major Falsehoods About the UN Vote for Palestine
It’s not my beat to write about politics. I usually leave that to The Middle and CK. But I can’t help but put down some ideas in the wake of the UN vote to create a Palestinian non-member...
Why Palestinian Statehood Will Almost Certainly Fail
Palestinian Statehood will likely fail at Security Council, Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a liar, Israel Supreme Court orders demolition of illegal settlements angering right wing, Former Mossad Chief says...
Home! Flytilla Fizzles
I spent the bulk of last week in Kiev at the 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference. I was initially concerned that the impending launch of the Gaza flotilla and how that would affect the interaction...
History lesson about Yishuv in Palestine from Bashar Assad’s grandfather
Through some sort of maze of websites that I can’t recall right now, I recently arrived at a NY Review of Books article about modern Syria, the Alawites (faith to which the Assads belong) which...
Why Is Britain’s Prime Minister Pulling Out of JNF? And Will There Be A Palestinian State This Year?
Helen Thomas Bares All in Playboy
Helen Thomas bares it all in the April 2011 US edition of Playboy Magazine. And by “ALL,” I don’t mean her naked skin, I mean her naked, unashamed, dislike of Jews, or just Israel...
J Street Sides with the Palestinians
Here’s a short little story about J Street – the supposedly “pro-Israel” advocacy group that supposedly supports Israel, even if their student group can’t bring itself...