West Bank

Bernie Sanders opinion piece in the NYT is an important read. It is also important to recognize who sparked this latest round of murder. Palestinian families in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have been living under the threat of eviction for many years, navigating a legal system designed to...

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  • May 15, 2021

Bernie Sanders opinion piece in the NYT is an important read. It is also important to recognize who sparked this latest round of murder. Palestinian families in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah have been living under the threat of eviction for many years, navigating a legal system designed to...

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  • May 15, 2021

“To Joe, I would say stop playing politics with the virus. Too serious. Partisan politics has no place here,” the president says while delivering an attack on his election opponent from the White House briefing room. Expect a brag on the Israel UAE agreement, a dodge on sabotaging the postal service,...

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  • August 13, 2020

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. 1672. Attacked former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch after her...

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  • November 22, 2019

Part of Jared’s “Peace” plan? CBS News “Jerusalem — The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the U.S. Embassy to Israel. For decades, the consulate functioned as a de facto embassy to the...

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  • March 4, 2019

Recall all the stories telling us how Likud and Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu had won a great victory at the polls on March 17th ??? Well, it's not just Fox News. They all had it wrong. Netanyahu's group of parties lost 3 seats in the March 17th election. Now Israel faces...

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  • May 6, 2015

The Holy Land has its problems. One big one, if we're going to be honest about this, is is that the Jewish community in Israel is plagued with dishonesty. During the run up to the March 17th election, Likud's promises for cabinet positions and sub-positions involved the usual imprecisions. But...

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  • April 14, 2015

From last Wednesday: Contrary to corporate MSM: Israel's Kulanu “All Of Us” Party will decide the election Little did I know on Wednesday how close that title fit to post-election events. UPDATE: Bibi may be on his way out. Senior members of the Zionist Union party confirmed to Maariv on...

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  • March 22, 2015

No, this isn't a War Diary.  So you can feel free to read on. If anything, this is a Peace Diary.  Because it explains how you can help to be a force for Peace, Human Rights, and Dignity for an oppressed People who have been forced to live as stateless...

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  • August 5, 2014