pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian
Videos and articles - pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian
Israel points of view: "The Middle East Problem in 5 Minutes," Prager University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4
East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers
by News Source on June 9, 2011
The Jewish ultra-nationalists at the heart of the Middle East conflict Video 30 minutes
Palestinian Points of View:
http://warincontext.org/2011/06/09/east-jerusalem-sharing-our-house-with-settlers/
What Price Israel?
by: Chris Hedges
January - March 2011, The Link - Volume 44, Issue 1
Israel points of view: "The Middle East Problem in 5 Minutes," Prager University: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4
East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers
by News Source on June 9, 2011
The Jewish ultra-nationalists at the heart of the Middle East conflict Video 30 minutes
Palestinian Points of View:
http://warincontext.org/2011/06/09/east-jerusalem-sharing-our-house-with-settlers/
What Price Israel?
by: Chris Hedges
January - March 2011, The Link - Volume 44, Issue 1
The United States has interceded on numerous occasions since the creation of the state of Israel to ensure the survival of the Jewish state. Without U.S. intervention Israel would probably not exist.....
Thursday, January 13, 2011
- Jeremiah Haber
Jeffrey Goldberg believes that the Jewish settlement in Sheikh Jarrah is "not necessarily" in the best Jewish self-interest. Why not? Because peace is important, and without a Palestinian East Jerusalem, there will be no Palestinian state, and hence, no possibility of peace. Israel will either cease to be a Jewish state (through the absorption of Arabs), or it will cease to be democratic. "It will not survive if it becomes a pariah state, and, in this unfortunate world in which we must exist, Israel is in danger of becoming an outcast among nations."
For Goldberg, the ultimate and overriding moral injunction is to preserve the state of Israel. All other considerations, if they obtain at all in this "unfortunate world in which we must exist," are secondary. ...
Goldberg does not say whether the removal of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah is a "morally profound" issue; perhaps, he thinks that it is.
What is wrong with all this? In the end, Goldberg opposes the de-Arabification of East Jerusalem. What difference does it make how he reasons? Isn't he getting enough flak from his rightwing readers for his liberal-hawkish Zionist perspective. Shouldn't I be giving him a break?
No, I shouldn't, for two reasons. First, Goldberg's account is factually incorrect and tendentious. Second, it lacks what is lacking in almost all the liberal hawkish/neocon writing on Israel: holding Israel to a reasonable moral standard besides that of the Mafia.
First, the facts: Goldberg surely cannot be unaware that almost all of the "sales" of Arab property to Jews in East Jerusalem are at best legally and morally questionable, and at worst, bogus. Some properties have either been purchased by the state, often with secret funding funneled through groups like Ateret Kohanim, with the express purpose of Judaizing East Jerusalem and ridding it of its Arab heritage. This has been described in numerous books and articles (see, for example, Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem, pp. 216-218; the Ir Amim website should also be consulted.) Some of these sales have been judged bogus even by the Israeli Supreme Court. .....
