Tony Karon: Israel Gets More Comfortable with Status Quo (Time)"If, and as long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up being either non-Jewish or nondemocratic," warned Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak last week. "If the Palestinians vote in elections it is a binational state, and if they don't vote it is an apartheid state."Jerome Slater: The New York Times and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Bronner Affair (Huff Post)
Former President Jimmy Carter suffered a verbal pummeling three years ago for comparing the standoff between Israel and the Palestinians to apartheid... >
The central issue in this dispute is less that of Ethan Bronner than it is of the New York Times itself. Close observers of Times' news coverage and commentary about Israel have long known that it is typically slanted in a "pro-Israeli" direction... >Bill Fletcher Jr: Don't deny peaceful protests in West Bank (CNN)
When we celebrate the courage and vision of freedom fighters such as King or Fannie Lou Hamer and the countless others who are remembered during Black History Month, we should think of those Palestinian Kings and Fannie Lou Hamers whose nonviolent struggle for freedom, justice and equality continues. >1000 Demonstrators Mark 5 Years of Protest in Bil'in by Dismantling Wall. (AIC)
One week after work to reroute the path of the Wall in Bil'in had began, more than a thousand demonstrators celebrated five years of struggle by dismantling a section of the Wall and taking over a military post. >VIDEO: UNRWA Commissioner: No peace without Palestinian refugees solution in line with UN resolutions (Palestine Video)
Finding a solution to the plight of millions of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East is key to peace in the region, says the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees... >James Carroll: Untie knot of Palestinian evictions (Boston Globe)
Today, as on every Friday for months now, several hundred Israelis gather here in Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusalem, to stand in vigil as a protest against the eviction of Palestinian families from homes they have lived in for decades. >Patrick Seale: What Does Netanyahu Want? (Middle East Online)
A new report finds that Israel committed "theft" by deducting billions from Palestinian worker's salaries over the past four decades. >Ami Kaufman: Everyone (Except Obama) Knows Netanyahu is Weak (Huff Post)
The U.S. administration has played it all wrong with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. >In pictures: Life in the shadow of Israeli settlements (BBC)
Did Netanyahu authorize killing of Hamas commander in Dubai? (Christian Science Monitor)
During a meeting with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and members of the alleged hit squad, Mr. Netanyahu approved last month's assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai, reports the Sunday Times. >Israeli agents go on PR offensive (Independent, UK)
Israel is sending more agents abroad, this time on an even more difficult mission: to project a peaceful and positive image of the Jewish state. >A Mossad hit backfires on Netanyahu … again. (Sydney Morning Herald)
That same old feeling for Benjamin Netanyahu must be excruciating. And it is probably cold comfort for the Israeli Prime Minister that his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, is likely to suffer along with him. >
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