Maan News Agency, May 31, 2010 (click here for Arabic) Two of a growing number of Israeli protesters at the port of Ashdod jumped into the sea Monday afternoon, calling for an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and condemning the attack on the Freedom Flotilla. Reporting from Ashdod, Mya Guarnieri said police had stopped …
Tablet, May 7, 2010 Standing outside of his Galilee home, Fadi, once a high-ranking officer of the South Lebanese Army (SLA), remarks on how close he still lives to Lebanon. He gestures to the low-slung mountains as though he is trying to sweep them from the horizon. “If that hill wasn’t there, we could see …
The Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2010 Not long after US Vice President Joe Biden touched down in Israel, Interior Minister Eli Yishai announced plans to build 1600 new homes in an East Jerusalem settlement. The move, publicly condemned by Biden, seemed like a slap in the face of the American administration. Biden criticized the “substance …
Maan News Agency, May 5, 2010 The Huffington Post, May 4, 2010 Zeek, May 4, 2010 Mahmoud, a Palestinian taxi driver, isn’t taking proximity talks seriously. “They just talk and talk and talk,” he says, as we wait at a red light in Jerusalem. “Nothing changes.” His cynicism is shared by both the Palestinian Authority …