Plenty of blame to go around in Gaza

When Israel boarded another ship bound for Gaza last weekend and escorted it to an Israeli port without incident, it demonstrated to me that both sides, Israel and the activists, hold blame for the...

What’s Really Happening in Gaza; What’s Really Not Happening in the West Bank

http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/06/bit-more-on-gaza-strip-diplomacy Elsewhere, I have explained in great detail the changes in Israeli policy as well as the implications of Western policy in the Gaza Strip: economic normalization meaning also normalization of the existence of a...

Open Letter from Mayor of Jerusalem to UN Sec’y Gen’l

June 24, 2010 Mr. Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General United Nations New York, NY 10017 USA Dear Secretary-General, I, as the Mayor of Jerusalem, am committed to improving the quality of life of all residents of Jerusalem and decided from the moment I...

A Botched Israel Social Work Policy From 40 Years Ago Comes Home to Roost...

The conflict that now ensues in the city of Emanuel has little to do with ethnic tensions between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish Israelis. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138127 Speaking from experience as a social work community organizer who worked...

Ehud Barak’s Theater of the Absurd

There was no need to endanger Israeli troops. How could Ehud Barak not see the looming disaster? Stopping a large Gaza-bound ship could have been carried out below the waterline, or by an assault on...

.DOES WHAT THEY SAY ACCOUNT FOR THEIR ACTIONS?: THE TROUBLE ISRAEL AND THE WEST...

When the core of your enemy’s doctrine and religion calls for your subjugation and/or annihilation, it makes achieving co-existence improbable. This is the insurmountable problem in a decades-long peace “process.” Islam teaches that they are...

Some Semi-Sanity from Europe: EU Foreign Ministers Make Partial Sense on Gaza, Iran

http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/06/some-semi-sanity-from-europe Remember what I told you: if you want to know what policy is going to be, watch the governments, not the media. While the results of the EU foreign ministers' meeting in Luxembourg were...

The Family That Shows Why There Needs to be a Naval Blockade on Gaza:...

Iris Twito, the mother of two sons injured by Qassam rockets in the city of Sderot, decided to grant an exclusive interview with Sderot Media Center, following the Gaza aid flotilla fiasco. "The entire...

In the 90th minute of the PR game, does Israel have a last shot...

By Noam Bedein* Israel's legitimacy as an independent Jewish state is being undermined and threatened like never before, especially in Europe. This became apparent during a short journey to Brussels and a nine-day speaking tour in...