Voices From a Changing Middle East: Ahmad Kamal as Samer and Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan in “The Return” at Mosaic Theater Company. (photo: Stan Barouh) By: Nelson Pressley- Theater critic Source: The Washington Post It took Mosaic Theater Company no time to forge a social justice identitybeyond the Jewish lens of Theater J, where Mosaic Artistic … Continued
Photo by: AP (Archive ) A Palestinian boy reacts as youths frighten him by pointing their toy guns at him, in an alley in the West Bank refugee camp of Al-Amari in Ramallah, in 2009 By: Mariam Barghouti Source: TRT World December 2013 echoed with the wailing of women, as they mourned the killing of … Continued
By: Jewish Telegraph Agency Source: Forward A letter calling on Israel to end the military occupation of the West Bank and lay the groundwork for a Palestinian state was delivered on behalf 1,800 American rabbis and cantors to the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. The letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was written … Continued
By: AL Jazeera Staff Source: Al Jazeera Israel has so far this year advanced its highest number of settlement projects since 1992, the defence minister said, despite warnings such plans make a two-state solution impossible. Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman made the comments on Sunday as Israel’s government faced mounting pressure from leaders of the … Continued
By: Sara Roy Source: London Review of Books Sara Roy is based at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. The third edition of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development was published last year. My last visit to Gaza had been in May 2014, just before Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, an … Continued
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein addresses a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images By: Peter Beaumont Source: The Guardian The UN’s top human rights official has marked the 50th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories by calling for its quick end, insisting that such an outcome would benefit … Continued
American President Lyndon Johnson listens to Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, to his right, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, far left, in Texas, January 8, 1968. (AP Photo) By: Rashid Khalidi Source: The Nation As we mark the 50th anniversary of the longest military occupation in modern history, some are celebrating. It is fully … Continued
By: Yousef Munayyer Source: Foreign Affairs The “outside-in” approach is all the rage in Middle East peace process circles. The idea is that the threat of an increasingly assertive Iran will bring Israel and influential Gulf Arab states together, creating a chance of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Indeed, today, as the long-simmering tensions between Gulf … Continued
BY: SIGAL SAMUEL SOURCE: THE ATLANTIC Six perspectives on how the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict changed Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism Fifty years ago this week, the Six-Day War dramatically altered geographic borders and political fortunes in the Middle East. For Israelis, the stunning 1967 victory meant an expanded country that suddenly included East Jerusalem, the … Continued
Palestinians in Jerusalem, in 2001. Alex Levac By: Gideon Levy Source: Haaretz Two weeks ago on Saturday, a few dozen Israelis attended the opening of a new exhibition at the Ben Ami Gallery in south Tel Aviv. The artist, whose work was on show for the first time, sat on a chair. She is … Continued
By: Amir Oren Source: Haaretz “From the early morning hours today, fierce battles are being fought on the southern front between Egyptian air and armored forces – which have moved toward Israel – and [Israeli] forces that went out to stop them,” the Israel Defense Forces spokesman lied on June 5, 1967. Egyptian movement toward … Continued
By: Gershom Gorenberg Source: The Washington Post It all happened so unexpectedly 50 years ago: the crisis between Egypt and Israel, the war that began on June 5, 1967, and expanded from one front to three, the silence of the guns after just six days, and the cease-fire lines that marked Israel’s conquests of the … Continued
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