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The video above is totally visceral, a vision of Israel’s archipelago of occupation in the West Bank. But it doesn’t show reality in the West Bank. It shows a version of that reality, transposed to Britain. It’s illustrative and evocative–illustrative in that it compresses the occupation’s effects on the people living in the West Bank to […] J Street continues on its course of utter predictability. Latest episode: Israel announces a settlement-freeze that’s not a settlement-freeze, because it doesn’t freeze settlements in East Jerusalem. 2,500 housing units currently under construction will continue going up. Schools, synagogues, and community centers too. Ethan Bronner calls this “a painful political concession by the Israeli government,” although […] For the full-length videos of Abunimah’s keynote speech, click through here. I like Q-and-A’s better; more dynamic. Gideon Levy reports from the occupied West Bank: Less than a month ago, in this space, we told the story of the beautiful vineyard belonging to the agriculture teacher Mohammed Abu Awad from the village of Mureir, whose 300 trees were felled by intruders — probably from the illegal outpost of Adei Ad — using buzz saws. Here, clues left […] I have just been re-reading the chapter on the Gaza Strip in Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land. After Israel’s 2005 withdrawal, armored military bulldozers turned the 3,000 buildings in which the settlers had lived and worked into fetid rubble, run through with festering food and great swarms of flies. All that was left were 19 synagogues, the […] As I write, students are occupying Wheeler Hall at the University of California-Berkeley, after an unsuccessful try at occupying the Capital Projects building. The occupiers are on the 2nd floor, and the police are threatening to tear-gas them. Scores of police in riot gear are beating on the doors. This was building for a long time: There is […] That’s what Obama-administration policy-making and J Street’s response to it reminds me of. The dynamic goes like this. The Israeli government makes some bellicose statement, or takes belligerent action, that greatly prejudices Palestinian national interests. The Obama administration, blind but not deaf, tut-tuts very fiercely. J Street, hearing a tut-tut, sends out a press release. We […] One of my best friends is in the Occupied Territories, in Jenin. Apparently, it’s Elysian. Israel has been handing out candy to the kids, and helping peasants with the olive harvest. Below is an e-mail account, basically verbatim: Nobody slept well in palestine last night. BIBI, in an attempt to back up his “renege on Oslo” threat […] |
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