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OneVoice Israel speaks to the extremes of Israeli society
By Tal Harris
On January 22, OneVoice Israel brought 15 of its members from Tel Aviv to meet with 30 settlers in the illegal settlement of Negohot, situated in the hills south of Hebron. Organizations in Israel seeking an end to the conflict tend to operate in the [...]

I suppose it’s pointless to describe The Guardian’s coverage of Israel as “unbelievable”. Okay, the so-called ‘facts’ certainly are very frequently unbelievable, but the tenor of these stories and mendacity comes so thick and fast that you’d have to have recently awoken from a long coma not to still be surprised by it.
Take this latest [...]

This is a crosspost from MoreMediaNonsense

From Haaretz :
Not all settlers and Palestinians want each other to disappear
The article is about a group of West Bank settlers trying to reach out in dialogue with their Palestinian neighbours :
The group is headed by Shmulik Klein of Neve Daniel, Nahum Pachnik (of the “unlawful” settlement outpost Sde [...]

A BBC Newsnight report from Colonel Tim Collins.
(Hat tip: MattG)

This is a Guest Post by Mikey
I have previously mentioned that Tony Greenstein can be violent. For those not familiar with this character, some background information is in order.
This is the man who is proud to have admitted that he “worked with supporters of the PFLP.” The PFLP is an organisation that pioneered [...]

Well, who could have predicted this?
Israeli police have arrested a rabbi on suspicion of involvement in an arson attack on a mosque last month.
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the head of a Jewish seminary in the settlement of Yitzhar, was arrested after he refused to co-operate, police said.
Mr Shapira denies any involvement in the attack, his lawyer [...]

Hurrah!
Hamas has accepted Israel’s right to exist and would be prepared to nullify its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, Aziz Dwaik, Hamas’s most senior representative in the West Bank, said on Wednesday.
Dwaik’s remarks are seen in the context of Hamas’s attempts to win recognition from the international community.
Dwaik is the elected speaker [...]

Cross-posted from The MEMRI Blog

The Fatah website reports today, citing Hamas sources, on conflict between Ahmad Al-Ja’bari, commander in Gaza of Hamas’ military wing, the ‘Izz Al-Din Al-Qassem Brigades, and Hamas prime minister in Gaza Isma’il Haniya, over aid funding transferred to Hamas by British MP George Galloway.
When Al-Ja’bari demanded to know how the money [...]

This is a guest post by Michael Weiss.
In this illuminating profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Tony Judt seeks and indulges no sentimentality about his terminal condition (he suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease, diagnosed about a year ago, which has all but incapacitated him). A life of the mind can be hindered but [...]

Read Eli Valley’s scathing comic in The Forward on naive and ignorant American Jews who go to Jerusalem, and find ‘enlightenment’ among lunatic, Arab-hating far-right rabbis. Very dark and very thought-provoking, especially as the rabbi’s quotes are based on real proclamations.