Letter to Editor Opportunity
PatnJeff Warner
This service returns after a six week hiatus. No attempt is being made to summarize the missing news articles.
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...New West Bank Violence as Palestinian Boys Stab 2 Israelis; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/world/middleeast/new-west-bank-violence-as-palestinian-boys-stab-2-israelis.html ...Reports Two 14-year-old Palestinian boys fatally stabbed an off-duty Israeli soldier and wounded another Israeli man in an Israeli supermarket in the occupied West Bank where Israelis and Palestinians work and shop together. Meanwhile, Israeli officials are arguing how much force should be used against Palestinian minors with weapons.
- ...Israeli Officers Briefly Detain Two Journalists; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/washington-post-reporter-william-booth-detained-by-israel.html ...Reports Israeli authorities issued statements of regret on Tuesday after police officers briefly detained The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Jerusalem and a colleague while they were conducting interviews at the Damascus Gate into the Old City. Police claim the arrested the journalists because they were “inciting” Palestinians.
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY
Times: one. items today:
- ...Israeli Soldiers Accidentally Kill Army Officer While Trying to Stop Attack; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-accidentally-kill-army-officer-while-trying-to-stop-attack.html ...Reports Israeli soldiers shot a fellow officer in the chest. They were aiming at a Palestinian assailant who was trying to stab the officer.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...World Briefing on A4 Israel: Detainee abuse is described; no url...Reports B’Tselem and HaMoked, two Israeli human rights groups, report systematic abuse and torture of Palestinian prisoners in Shin Bet facilities.
NY Times: no. items today:
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...World Briefing on A4 Gaza Strip: Hamas hopes a port is possible; no url...Reports a Gaza port may be a component of a deal to restore ties between Israel and Turkey. Israeli military supports port, but Israeli politicians do not.
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Benjamin Netanyahu Rebukes David Cameron for Criticizing Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/world/middleeast/benjamin-netanyahu-rebukes-david-cameron-for-criticizing-israel.html ...Reports PM Netanyahu said U.K. PM Cameron was wrong to criticize Israel for settlements in East Jerusalem, claiming that Israel sovereignty protects Arab [Palestinian] rights.
- ...Palestinian to End Hunger Strike After Israel Agrees to Free Him by May; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/world/middleeast/palestinian-hunger-strike.html ...Reports Mohammad al-Qeeq, a television journalist, is one of several prisoners who have refused food to protest their detention without charges. Al-Qeeq has been on a hunger strike for 90 days and is near death.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE: “Benjamin Netanyahu Rebukes David Cameron for Criticizing Israel” Feb. 26Israeli PM Netanyahu took offense at U.K. PM Cameron saying that Israel’s “effective encirclement” of East Jerusalem and the extent of its construction in that contested territory “genuinely shocking.” But Netanyahu’s defense of Israel was lame. That is no surprise because Cameron was correct – Israeli settlement construction in East Jerusalem is shocking in its disregard for international law.
Rather than address Cameron’s criticism of settlements, Netanyahu claimed that “Only Israeli sovereignty” protected Palestinians (who he disingenuously called “Arabs”) and guaranteed them rights. Some protection – Israel discriminates against Palestinians by law and custom, and has since Israel was founded almost 70 years ago.
PatnJeff Warner
NY
Times: one. items today:
- ...Palestinian
Fugitive Found Dead
Outside Embassy in Bulgaria; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/world/middleeast/palestinian-fugitive-found-dead-outside-embassy-in-bulgaria.html ...Reports Omar Zayed,
52, a Palestinian man who escaped from prison in Israel
more than 20 years ago,
was found dead outside the Palestinian Embassy in Sofia,
Bulgaria. Zayed’s
family accuse the Mossad of his
killing.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Talk Grows About Who Will Succeed Palestinians’ Fading Mahmoud Abbas; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/world/middleeast/talk-grows-about-who-will-succeed-palestinians-fading-mahmoudabbas.html ...Background on potential replacements for PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas. The most popular possibility is Marwan Barghouti, but he is in an Israeli prison for a life term with no hint that Israel will release him.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE: “Talk Grows About Who Will Succeed Palestinians’ Fading Mahmoud Abbas” Feb. 28Many analysts agree
that Marwan
Barghouti, who is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison,
is the only
possible Palestinian leader who can unite the Palestinians. But don’t expect an Israel
to release
Barghouti in a de Klerk-Mandela moment. Releasing
Barghouti would likely lead to a unified Palestinian leadership
that would make
a strong bid for a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and that
is exactly what
Israeli leaders have worked to prevent since Israeli’s founding. We must not forget that
Israel has rejected
every Palestinian diplomatic initiative to resolve the conflict,
not the
reverse, in spite of what American politicians say.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: two. items today:
...Netanyahu Welcomes Cease-Fire in Syria, but Adds a Warning; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/world/middleeast/netanyahu-welcomes-cease-fire-in-syria-but-adds-a-warning.html..Reports PM Netanyahu said he welcomed the efforts to achieve a long-term cease-fire in Syria but warned that Israel would continue to defend its own interests there which he defines as preventing transfer of advanced weaponry from Syria to Hezbollah and blocking any Iranian-backed attacks against Israel from Syrian territory.
Isaac Herzog (Israeli Labor Party leader) Op-Ed...Only Separation Can Lead to a Two-State Solution; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/opinion/international/only-separation-can-lead-to-a-two-state-solution.html ...Reports The Labor leader sets out a plan to achieve two-states. He starts by accepting all the myths that Israel has worked for peace and the Palestinian reject peace, and agrees with Netanyahu that peace is not possible, even though that will lead to an unacceptable one-state. His plan: (1) land swaps for settlement blocks, (2) separate Arab villages from an Israeli-Jewish Jerusalem, (3) stop settlement expansion but the Israeli army will remain in control, (4) a security conference to defeat Iran and ISIS, and (5) demilitarization of Gaza but Israel retains right to attack at will.
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[for NY Times] RE: “Only Separation Can Lead to a Two-State Solution” Feb. 29
Isaac Herzog’s plan for peace by achieving two-states is completely out-of-touch with reality because it is premised on the Israeli myths that Israel wants peace and the Palestinians reject peace in favor of terror. Given that poor start, Herzog proposals offer nothing new except a call to stop expansion of settlements beyond Israel’s illegal separation wall. Otherwise, the plan is just a continuation of Israeli military domination of the Palestinians with the tacit assumption that the Palestinian will give-up their 50 (or 70) year quest for a Palestinian state to live contented in bantustans Israel chooses for them.
The Times was right in reporting on Herzog’s plan in
nits ews columns,
but I am shocked that the Times prints such delusional dribble
on its Opinion
page.
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SEWCOND MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE: “Netanyahu Welcomes Cease-Fire in Syria, but Adds a Warning” Feb. 28
Another example of
Israeli hypocrisy. Israel
welcomed a cease-fire in Syria, but
openly claimed that it would not be bound by the agreement. Israeli Prime Minister
Netanyahu claimed that
Israel would bomb Syria whenever it decided to do so, using the
excuse of
security. In fact, every
time Israel
bombs Syria, which it has done about a dozen times in the past
few years,
Israel is assuring that there will be continued conflict in the
region.
PatnJeff Warner
NY
Times: two. items today:
- ...Violence Erupts After 2 Israeli Soldiers Using Waze App Get Lost in West Bank; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/world/middleeast/waze-israel-soldiers-west-bank.html ...Reports Two Israeli soldiers using the navigation app Waze accidentally entered the Kalandia refugee camp in the West Bank, provoking clashes and a gun battle that led to the death of a 22-year old Palestinian man.
- ...Hamas Commander, Accused of Theft and Gay Sex, Is Killed by His Own; no url...Reports The death of Mahmoud Ishtiwi, who was accused of homosexuality, had all the trappings of a soap opera: sex, torture and embezzlement, in the armed wing of Hamas.
PatnJeff Warner
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...Article on A4 Israelis kill Palestinian after GPS mix-up; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-waze-20160302-story.html...Reports Two Israeli soldiers using the navigation app Waze accidentally entered the Kalandiyeh (Qalandia on LA Times website; Kalandia in NY Times) refugee camp in the West Bank, provoking clashes and a gun battle that led to the death of a 22-year old Palestinian man.
NY Times: nothing today:
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The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...West Bank Teachers Strike Gains Momentum, Challenging the Government; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/world/middleeast/schools-out-indefinitely-in-west-bank-as-a-teachers-strike-gains-momentum.html ...Reports public schools across the West Bank have been shuttered since Feb. 7, in an unprecedented teacher strike against the ossifying Palestinian government. A dispute that began with demands for a pay raise has turned into a broad challenge to the Palestinian Authority which is threatening arrests and mass firings.
- ...An Anti-Semitism of the Left; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/an-anti-semitism-of-the-left.html ...Details incidents in British and American universities in which an anti-Zionism derangement syndrome of the far left spills over into anti-Semitism Jews are identified with Israel, a “imperialist-colonialist” state. Students claim that anti-Semitism was felt “in the word ‘Zio’ flung around in left-wing groups.”
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE: “An Anti-Semitism of the Left” March 7 ColumnAnti-Semitism is based on hatred of Jews because they are Jews. What Roger Cohen describes is based on hatred of Israel. The spillover into actions against Jews is because Jews are identified with Israel. But that was brought on by Israel which insists it is the nation-state of all Jews.
That said, I condemn leftists or anyone who attack all Jews as supporters of Israel. In fact, there are many Jews, like me, who are ashamed that Israel claims it acts for us.
Cohen correctly calls for vigorous criticism of Israel for its crimes against Palestinian, but he is wrong to suggest demonization of Israel is wrong because it ignores the millennial-long Jewish struggle against persecution. The Jewish struggle in no way justifies Israel’s 50-year, systematic oppression of Palestinians; depriving them of their U.N. granted state, stripping them of human and civil rights, destroying their economy, and expropriating their land. Israel has demonized itself by its actions towards Palestinians.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Deep Rift Among Israeli Jews Are Found in Religion Survey; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/study-israel-jews-pew-research.html ...Reports The Pew Research Center survey of Israeli Jews found that religious and social divisions are reflected in choice of spouse and social network, and underlie “starkly contrasting positions on many public policy questions.” Most noticeably, whereas most Israelis think democracy should trump religion, the ultra-orthodox think the opposite. Examples of other difference: nearly half believe Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, and among centrists about one-third each believe settlements hurt, help, or have no effect on security. Results not surprising to people who follow Israel trends, but may shock others.
- ...New Proposal to Divide Jerusalem Unites People Against It; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/world/middleeast/new-proposal-to-divide-jerusalem-unites-people-against-it.html ...Reports A new plan from a liberal Israeli Jews and supported by the Labor party titled “saving Jewish Jerusalem” would unilaterally fence off most of East Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods and transfer responsibility for their 200,000 residents from City Hall to the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank. Plan opposed by Palestinians, Jewish left, and even members of the Jewish right.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
The Pew survey is yet another demonstration that Israel and the United States have different core principles. Can you imagine that half of centrist Americans would want to expel a large ethnic American minority (think African Americans or Hispanic or Asians), depriving them of their United States citizenship and ripping them from their establish life. But that is exactly what half of centrist Israel want to do with the Palestinians (who they call Arabs depriving them of their identity by that terminology).
The lesson from these differences is that the United States should end its diplomatic and military support of Israel that perpetuates Israel’s occupation that dehumanizes Palestinians, depriving them of rights, and that leads to even considering expelling them from their homes commonly dating back to before Israel was established.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on web U.S. tourist killed in knife attack in Israel, where survey illuminates deep divides; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-american-tourist-killed-palestinian-attack-20160308-story.html...Reports an American Vanderbilt Univ. graduate student on a school trip to Israel was stabbed to death in one of three attacks reportedly carried out by Palestinians across Israel on Tuesday — the same day a Pew survey was released showing 48% of Jewish Israelis support expelling Palestinian (Arab) citizens of Israel.
NY Times: four. items today:
- ...Biden Assails ‘Failure to Condemn’ Palestinian Violence; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/world/middleeast/biden-israel-violence-abbas.html ...Reports During his visit to Israel, the vice president Biden responded to an attack that killed an American student by saying the U.S. “condemns these acts and condemns the failure [by the Palestinian Authority] to condemn these acts.” Biden met with Abbas who conveyed condolences but also mentioned the 200 Palestinians killed by Israel in recent months.
- ...Iran Tests More Missiles in Message to Israel and Biden; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/world/middleeast/irans-revolutionary-guards-stage-second-day-of-missile-tests.html ...Reports They said two rockets had successfully hit targets over 850 miles away. The NY Times points out that these missiles my have the capability to hit Israel, but it does not note that to do that the missiles must sit on Iran’s eastern-most border. The Times fails to say the missiles can also hit Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Russia, and probably eleven other countries. There is no hint that these missile tests violate any international rule or agreement.
- ...American Graduate Student Killed in Stabbing Rampage Near Tel Aviv; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/jaffa-israel-stabbing-attacks.html ...Reports A Palestinian on a stabbing rampage on a seaside blvd. in Jaffa (near Tel Aviv) killed an American combat veteran who was a graduate student at Vanderbilt University.
- ...Obama Seeks to Pave Way to Mideast Deal After He Leaves Office; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/world/middleeast/obama-seeks-a-way-to-save-israeli-palestinian-gains.html .. .Reports President Obama, resigned to his failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, is looking past his time in office and considering a Presidential speech or a U.N. Security Council resolution that would preserve the principle of a two-state solution for his successor to pursue. Netanyahu is opposed to any such imitative.
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MODEL LETTER TO LA & NY TIMES
[for LA Times] RE: “Why” Jan. 3
[for NY
Times] RE:
“Biden
Assails ‘Failure to Condemn’
Palestinian Violence”
March 10
Vice-president Joe Biden was correct in condemning the Palestinian Authority for not condemning the attacks on Israelis. But he was wrong in not following the lead of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro in condemning Israel’s policy of executing any Palestinian who even hints of an attack. Since October, Israeli police and army have killed about 200 Palestinians. As Shapiro said in late January, "Too many attacks on Palestinians lack a vigorous investigation or response by Israeli authorities, too much vigilantism goes unchecked and at times there seem to be two standards of adherence to the rule of law: one for Israelis and another for Palestinians."
PatnJeff Warner
- ...Article on web
Palestinian
brother and sister, 10 and 6, killed in
retaliatory airstrike by Israel;
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-gaza-airstrike-20160312-story.html...Reports an Israeli
airstrike
into Gaza in response to four rockets from Gaza,
targeted what Israel calls
four Hamas training camps. Shrapnel from
one of the airstrikes killed two Palestinian
children, and wounded another.
NY Times: two items today:
- ...Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills 2 Children, Palestinian Official Says; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-hamas-airstrike.html ...Reports Israel struck at Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing a 10-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister, after militants fired rockets toward Israeli border communities . Children died from shrapnel. A third child was injured.
- ...Israeli Airstrike on Hamas Base Kills Boy Nearby, Gaza Officials Say; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/world/middleeast/israeli-airstrike-on-hamas-base-kills-boy-nearby-gaza-officials-say.html ...Earlier version of above article.
PatnJeff Warner
- ...Article on A3 from Saturday’s
web
Airstrike kills young siblings in
Gaza Strip;
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-gaza-airstrike-20160312-story.html...Reports an Israeli
airstrike into Gaza in response to four rockets
from Gaza, targeted what Israel
calls four Hamas training camps.
Shrapnel from one of the airstrikes killed
two Palestinian children, and
wounded another.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: four. items today:
- ...Israel Calls on U.N. to Punish Iran for Missile Tests; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/world/middleeast/iran-israel-un-missile-tests.html ...Reports The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations accused Iran of violating the nuclear accord by testing missiles capable of reaching Israel last week. Iran claimed the missiles were defensive. The U.S. called the tests “provocative and destabilizing,” all but accusing Iran of having violated Resolution 2231 and opening the door to possible sanctions.
- ... Gaza Journal: With Hamas Watching, Singer Creates a (Modest) Sensation; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/world/middleeast/gaza-hamas-rawan-okasha.html...Reports a Gaza woman sang in a public concert in Gaza with reluctant Hamas approval. Does this represent the start of an easing of Hamas restrictions
- NY Times editorial...Mr. Netanyahu’s Lost Opportunities; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/opinion/mr-netanyahus-lost-opportunities.html ...Blames Netanyahu’s disrespect for President Obama for the present bump in Israel-U.S. relations. Says it’s hard to understand how showing disrespect to the president of the United States serves Israel’s interests. Nevertheless, Obama must not let the two-state solution die. Says he must help his successor find new ways to help make peace happen.
- Shmuel Rosner Op-Ed...Can Israel Handle a President Trump?; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/opinion/can-israel-handle-a-president-trump.html ...Reports After eight years of Obama, Israel’s prime minister thought he wanted a Republican president who would take a lead in fighting Israel’s battles and allow Israel to deepen West Bank apartheid. But a President Trump would be unpredictable and even worse from Netanyahu’s point of view than even Hillary Clinton. who would continue the Obama policies.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE: “Mr. Netanyahu’s Lost Opportunities” March 14 Editorial
Netanyahu disrespects
President Obama
because Obama will not agree to Netanyahu’s demand that the U.S.
gift the
Israeli military increase from $3.1 billion to $5 billion each
year. Obama is
suggesting $4 billion. But
even that is too much. The
Leahy law, the U.S. Foreign Assistance
Act, and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act all limit the use of
American
supplied weapons to defense and humanitarian uses, and that can
be accomplished
for less than $1 billion each year. The
only reason Israel wants all that money is to acquire
first-strike weapons like
F-35 fighters, and the only need for first-strike weapons is to
start a war
with Iran.
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Letter to Editor Opportunity
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: two. items today:
...Article on B1 UC unveils policy draft; http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-antisemitism-20160315-story.html ...Reports proposed statement on intolerance at UC proposes to conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism as forms of discrimination that are unacceptable on campus. The proposed statement drew sharply divergent reactions, with pro-Israel groups hailing it as a needed step to protect Jewish students from hostility and those supporting Palestinian rights criticizing it as a naked attempt to suppress criticism of the Jewish state.
There is some inconsistency in the proposal. In the proposal is a "contextual statement" that accepts the link between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, saying, "Opposition to Zionism often is expressed in ways that are not simply statements of disagreement over politics and policy, but also assertions of prejudice and intolerance toward Jewish people and culture," the statement says. "Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California." But the proposal also asserts that 1st Amendment principles and free speech must be "paramount" in guiding responses to acts of bias.
...LA Times editorial on A12 UC’s intolerance policy; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-uc-intolerance-20160316-story.html...Says the UC proposed rules on intolerance have a set of “Principles \gainst Intolerance” that are a good effort to balance condemnation of hatful conduct with support for robust debate. But the proposal errs in conflating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism and saying both are forms of discrimination that “have no place at the University of California.” The editorial says “It's difficult to read that as anything other than a warning to those students or faculty members who have fundamental disagreements with the state of Israel. It apparently rules out of bounds an assertion by, say, a Palestinian professor that Israel's creation was unfair and unjustifiable, or by a Jewish student that Israel should be replaced by a nonsectarian state. Both are ideas that this page opposes but they are fully entitled to protection at a public university under the 1st Amendment. The equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism might also make it easier to stigmatize protests against Israeli policies — particularly the treatment of Palestinians — even if they don't actually oppose the idea of a Jewish state. Pro-Palestinian activists on campus are right to fear that such a statement would target their advocacy even when it doesn't involve anti-Semitic language or harassing behavior.”
Editorial says no new policy is needed, especially one that conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
NY Times: no. items today:
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MODEL LETTER TO LA TIMES
[for LA Times] RE: “UC’s intolerance policy” March 16 editorial
The Times is correct that the UC proposed intolerance policy that conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, and calls both discrimination, is wrong. Many students and faculty, including many who are Jewish, object to Israel’s systematic denial of Palestinian rights and they do simply using speech. The proposed rule will violate their 1st Amendment free speech rights as well as the University’s commitment to open discussion.
As a Jewish American
who opposes
Israel apartheid regime in the West Bank that oppresses
Palestinians, but
accepts the existence of Israel within its 1967 borders, my
protest against American
support for Israel’s policy would be demonized by the proposed
rule that makes
anti-Zionism equivalent to anti-Semitism.
It is a bad rule.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: nothing
today:
- Ramallah Journal...A Legislature Where Palestinian Lawmakers Go to Hide; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/middleeast/palestinian-parliament-ramallah.html ...Profiles the Palestinian legislature building. No legislature has met since 2007. 400 employees still come to work. At times Palestinian legislators use the building as a haven from arrest to avoid Palestinian and/or Israeli police.
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- ..Five letters on A11 Disguising hate; http://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20160319/281655369191942...Respond to report and editorial on UC Regents proposed rules on intolerance. 1st letter by leaders of Am. Jewish Comm. says the Regents are right and the Times is wrong because indeed anti-Zionism commonly becomes anti-Semitic. 2nd says the report should have addressed Islamophobia and discrimination against supporters of Palestinian rights. 3rd says Says because Israel is only looked at with hate means that it is anti-Semitic. 4th insists anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and Jewish opponents of Israel want equal rights for all. 5th says the Times has no right to tell Jews what is anti-Semitic.
- ...Judea Pearl Op-Ed on web Is anti-Zionism hate?; http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-pearl15-2009mar15-story.html...Says anti-Zionism is more dangerous to Jews than anti-Semitism because “Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation -- a collective bonded by a common history -- and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel.” Essay is grounded in assertion that Israel wants a 2-state solution, yet ignores 50 years of Israeli efforts to kill the 2-state solution.
NY Times:
nothing today:
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A4 Fiery deja vu for Palestinian clan; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-palestinian-arson-story.html...Reports Ibrahim Dawabshe, who is a witness to the firebomb attack last summer that resulted in the death of his cousins, a toddler and both parents, had his house firebombed Sunday night. Police say this was not arson, but the family says it was. Ha’aretz says that Jewish extremists are suspected.
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MODEL LETTER TO LA TIMES
[for LA Times] RE: “Fiery deja vu for Palestinian clan” March 21 editorial
Another example of the difference in values between the United States and Israel. Last July violent settlers fire-bombing a Palestinian home killing a toddler and both parents. The event was witnessed by a neighbor. Now, in true gangland fashion, the witness’ home was firebombed in an attempt to silence him.
This sort of thing happened and was accepted in part of the U.S. during prohibition, but has not been accepted for well over 75 years. Yet it is happening in Israel today, and the settlers who did the firebombing are ascendant in Israeli politics.
The United States must not support Israel as long as settlers control the government.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A9 Mr. Trump goes to Washington; http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-washington-establishment-20160322-story.html ...Reports on Trump’s day in Washington with several meetings. At AIPAC Trump backed off being neutral in an Israel-Palestine negotiation, and sided strongly with Israel including saying the Iran deal stinks and he would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Clinton in her speech to AIPAC criticized Trump for flip-flopping in this issue.
NY Times: three. items today:
- Reporter’s notebook..A Spymaster Who Saw Cyberattacks as Israel’s Best Weapon Against Iran; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/middleeast/israel-mossad-meir-dagan.html ...Profiles Meir Dagan who died a few days ago. Dagan opposed Netanyahu in how to attack Iran. Netanyahu wanted to bomb. Dagan assassinated Iranian scientists and used cyberattacks.
- Elizabeth Williams Op-Ed...Art of the Anecdote: Presidential Candidates’ Speeches to AIPAC; http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/art-of-the-anecdote-presidential-candidates-speeches-to-aipac/ ...Says The personal stories candidates told at Monday’s conference shed light on their personalities, but what the significance is not explained. Links to the speeches.
- Carol Giacomo Op-Ed...Straight Talk From Bernie Sanders on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/straight-talk-from-bernie-sanders-on-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ ...Says Mr. Sanders was the only presidential candidate who spoke any real truth about the conflict. He was courageous enough to criticize Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s right-wing prime minister, and to show any understanding of Palestinian needs. Calls for 2-states and said to get there will require compromises on both side, and he listed things each side must do.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY
Times] RE: “Straight
Talk From Bernie Sanders on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict;” March
22 Op-Ed
Carol Giacomo is correct that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who shows any recognition of the reality in Israel-Palestine. Sanders calls for compromises by both parties, and actually lists what each side must do. Sanders is attempting to take be an honest broker. In contrast, all the other candidate say or imply that only Palestinians must make concessions. In fact, Sanders policy is closer to George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s than it is to that of any other candidate.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on web A subdued Donald Trump sticks to standard pro-Israel positions in speech to lobbying group; http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-israel-speech-20160321-story.html...Reports Trump’s speech to AIPAC was light on his trademark improvisation and full of standard rhetoric favoring the U.S. ally.
- ...Article on A12 Clinton faults Trump’s Mideast views; http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-hillary-clinton-aipac-20160321-story.html...Reports Clinton’s speech to AIPAC attacked Trump for his call for neutrality in making peace . Trump abandoned that position in his speech. Clinton defended her role making Iran deal happen.
- ...LA Times editorial on A14 Neutrality, Trump and Israel; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-neutral-broker-20160323-story.html...Says Trump’s promise to be neutral between Israel and Palestine was correct, even if is rejected by Clinton and Cruz. Says the U.S. should support Israel’s safety, but to help bring peace the U.S. must be an honest broker, not “Israel’s lawyer.”
- ...Op-Ed debate on A15 UC’s tolerance debate;
- ..By Judea Pearl Anti-Zionism is a hateful ideology. It has no place at UC; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0323-pearl-anti-zionism-20160323-story.html...Says the Report is good. It does not conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Rather it considers each distinct and each discrimination. Says Zionism is an identity just like a religion or sexual orientation, thuis anti-Zionism is discrimination against an identity and has no place at UC.
- ...By Saree Makdisi and Judith Butler Suppressing criticism of Zionism amounts to censorship; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-makdisibutler-uc-antisemitism-report-20160323-story.html....Says the Report is bad. It gives almost no notice of real discrimination like Islamophobia in an attempt to shut down criticism of political Zionism by asserting that anti-Zionism is really prejudice against Jews, and concludes by conflating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
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MODEL LETTER TO LA & NY TIMES
[for LA Times] RE: “UC’s
tolerance debate” March
23 Op-Ed
Judea Pearl and Saree Makdisi and Judith Butler seem to occupy different worlds. Pearl sees Zionism as Jewish identity, even though Zionism – living in Israel – has been rejected by over half the Jews in the world, including Pearl himself, who have not emigrated to Israel.
Makdisi and Butler see Zionism as an ideology that has dispossessed millions of Palestinians from their homeland, stolen their land, ruined their economy, and deprived them of their rights, including their right to self-determination.
The problem is that critics of Zionism the ideology are criticizing a political movement, whereas some Jews hear that criticism as attacking their identity. The way to solve the dilemma is for Israel to end its oppression of Palestinians. But the pro-Israel forces do not consider that possibility and rather attempt to stop criticism of Israel’s oppression.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Front-page article UC statement on bias takes a middle ground; http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-regents-intolerance-20160322-story.html... Regents accepted the entire report of the working group with a single amendment in the introductory material so the report now reads “Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism and other forms of discrimination have no place at the University of California.” The Report focuses on imagined threats to Jewish students, although the LA Times characterizes the report as taking a “middle ground” because it avoids the harsh language pushed by the pro-Israel folks. Meanwhile, the report takes little notice of Islamophobia, sex and gender issues, and other real discrimination problems at UC.
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Israel Soldier Detained in Shooting of Palestinian; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/world/middleeast/video-shows-israel-soldier-shooting-palestinian.html ...Reports A video captured an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian in the head as he lay motionless on the ground. The man had just attacked another soldier.
- ...Family Sees TV Talent Scout Where Israeli Authorities See Jihadist Spy; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/world/middleeast/family-sees-tv-talent-scout-where-israeli-authorities-see-jihadist-spy.html ...Reports Majd Oweida, 22, was arrested on his way out of Gaza. He said he was seeking contestants for a show, but he was charged with hacking airport computers and Israeli security computer network for Islamic Jihad.
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[for LA Times] RE: “UC statement on bias takes a middle ground” March 24
[
The UC Regents statement on intolerance is misdirected. The statement almost ignores Islamaphobia, sex and gender issues, and other real, everyday aspects of discrimination. What the Regents’ statement does is attempt to protect Jewish students from hearing truths about Israel’s apartheid regime in the West Bank and Gaza. But the U.S. Department of Education says that university students should expect to be exposed to harsh truths and that does not violate their rights. What the statement does is limit if not eliminate the free speech rights, guaranteed by the U.S. Bill of Rights, for critiques of Israel’s policy of denying Palestinians their civil, economic, and human rights.
The UC Regents erred in adopting the statement on intolerance.
PatnJeff Warner
- ...World Briefing on A4 Israel: Soldier in video is detained; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-palestinian-shot-20160324-story.html...Reports Israeli soldier shown on video shooting a Palestinian who was lying on the ground. Soldier is arrested. On-line version of story much longer than printed Brief.
- ...Three letters on A16 Can the U.S. be neutral on Israel?; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0325-friday-trump-israel-palestinians-20160325-story.html...Respond to LA Times editorial saying Trump is correct that the U.S. must be neutral in Israel-Palestinian negotiations. 1st says Trump is not believable and makes no sense when he says the U.S. will be neutral. 2nd says the U.S. should be neutral, but that is impossible based on 70 years of support for Israel. 3rd says neutrality is good, and notes that Sanders is a better carrier of the neutrality message.
NY Times: nothing today:
PatnJeff Warner
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The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
- ...Article on A3 Israeli soldier charged in Palestinian’s death; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-soldier-shooting-20160325-story.html...Reports an Israeli military court ruled that Israeli soldier captured on camera fatally shooting a suspected Palestinian assailant in the head after he was already disarmed and lying on the ground will face murder charges. Soldier’s defense will be that he was following orders and feared the Palestinian was a threat.
- ...Article on B3 Regents to Monitor intolerance; http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-uc-regents-intolerance-0160324-story.html ...Reports Regents will follow-up on its intolerance policy to assure campuses are taking intolerance seriously.
- ...Three letters on A11 Is anti-Zionism hate speech?; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0326-saturday-uc-anti-semitism-20160326-story.html ...More on UC Regents tolerance policy. 1st says the UC should not define hate speech, but Makdisi and Butler mischaracterize anti-Zionism. 2nd says Zionism threatens Palestinians and Israeli oppression of Palestinians is a human rights issue. 3rd suggests anti-Jewish acts are ignored by the UC but anti-Muslim acts would be Punished.
NY Times: one item today:
- ...Israel Begins Murder Investigation of Soldier Who Shot Palestinian; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/world/middleeast/israel-begins-murder-investigation-of-soldier-who-shot-palestinian.html_ ...Reports The Israeli military said that a soldier who shot Yusri al-Sharif ,a Palestinian assailant, in the head as he lay motionless on the ground was being investigated on suspicion of murder. The announcement was highly unusual and underscored the seriousness of the case, which was filmed and quickly spread over social media. An additional three officers — a company commander and two platoon commanders — were reprimanded because they did not treat the wounded man after the confrontation.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- ...Israel Changes Tack After Standoff With Brazil Over Dani Dayan; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/world/middleeast/israel-brazil-ambassador.html...Reports Plans to name the former settler leader as envoy to the South American nation were dropped after Brasília refused to approve the appointment
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...LA Times editorial on A10 Free speech vs. bigotry at UC; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0329-uc-intolerance-20160329-story.html...Applauds UC Regents for adopting modified principles against intolerance that do not conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. The principles allow criticism of Israel, but not “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism” such as “insulting language or conduct directed at individual Jewish students because of their presumed support for Israel.”
NY Times: one. items today:
- Eric Alterman Op-Ed...The BDS Movement and Anti-Semitism on Campus; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/opinion/the-bds-movement-and-anti-semitism-on-campus.html...Says notion that anti-Semitism is a problem on American campuses is wrong – that he never heard an anti-Semitic word on Campus during his years as a college professor. He notes that political arguments about Israel-Palestine sometimes turn ugly, but are “appropriately and unambiguously” condemned by college administrators. Says typically a single, far-right Jewish organization is responsible for spreading fear of anti-Semitism.
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MODEL LETTER TO LA TIMES
[for LA Times] RE: “Free speech vs. bigotry at UC” March 29 editorial
The Times is correct in applauding the UC Regents for not adopting principles of intolerance that conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, but insisting that when anti-Zionism merges into attacks on individual Jewish students, that is anti-Semitic and will not be tolerated.
That said, I am dismayed that the Regents were so concerned with anti-Semitism, which is not a problem in the UC, while almost ignoring real discrimination in the UC community including Islamophobia, sexual misconduct, gender identification issues, and other forms of racism.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israel Polarized Over Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/world/middleeast/israeli-dispute-over-solder-who-shot-palestinian.html ...Reports on Israeli public support for soldier who shot a fallen Palestinian in the head. Anger is directed at military leaders who are condemning the killing. A web petition with 57,000 signatures calls for the soldier to get a merit citation.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE:...Israel Polarized Over Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian March 30Are there no Israelis who see anything wrong with a soldier shooting a wounded Palestinian who is subdued and prostate on the ground?
The shooting was the
type of human rights
abuse, that occurs all too frequently in Israel, that Senator
Leahy and ten
other senators wrote to Secretary of State Kerry to investigate. The senators worry that
American arms enable
those human rights abuses, and if they do the senators note it
would be a
violation of the Leahy law that restricts American arms from
going to countries
with persistent human rights abuses.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- Two letters...Debating Israel Policy and Free Speech on Campus; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/debating-israeli-policy-and-free-speech-on-campus.html ...Respond to Eric Alterman’s Op-Ed from March 29. 1st from JVP official says the point of BDS is to shift the conversation from the morality of the occupation to Palestinian rights [not much of a difference because the two concepts are interrelated]. 2nd says “cannot” end the occupation without losing security and its identity, so it will live with BDS.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
...Article on A3 Accused Israel soldier gains support; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israeli-soldier-20160331-story.html...Reports on Israeli public support for soldier who shot a fallen Palestinian in the head. Claim soldier acted because he thought wounded Palestinian had a suicide belt [even though there has not been a Palestinian suicide bomber in about ten years]. Polls say 64% of Israelis think soldier acted responsibly.
NY Times: one. items today:
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MODEL LETTER TO LA & NY TIMES Yesterday's letter, now also sent to LA Times.
[for LA Times] RE: “Accused Israel soldier gains support” April 129
[for NY Times] RE:...Israel Polarized Over Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian March 30
Are there no Israelis who see anything wrong with a soldier shooting a wounded Palestinian who is subdued and prostate on the ground?
The shooting was the
type of human
rights abuse, that occurs all too frequently in Israel, that
Senator Leahy and
ten other senators wrote to Secretary of State Kerry to
investigate. The
senators worry that American arms enable
those human rights abuses, and if they do the senators note it
would be a
violation of the Leahy law that restricts American arms from
going to countries
with persistent human rights abuses.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: two. items today, one with five parts:
...Israel Expands Palestinian Fishing Zone Off Gaza Coast; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/world/middleeast/israel-expands-palestinian-fishing-zone-off-gazas-coast.html ...Reports A change from six to nine nautical miles of the Mediterranean will allow access to areas that had been off limits for a decade. Nevertheless, Israel fires at Palestinian boats within the allowed limit. The Oslo accord sets the limit at 20 miles.
Room for Debate..Is Anti-Zionism Merely Anti-Semitism in Disguise?; http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/04/04/is-anti-zionism-anti-semitism ...Debate on when criticism of Israel becomes bigotry, and asks if rejection of the Jewish State a rejection of Jews.
Daniel Gordis..Rejecting Zionist Principles Is a Rejection of Jews Israel was created to ensure the safety and flourishing of the Jewish People. Attacking it constitutes an assault on Jews.
Lisa Goldman..Anti-Zionists Thrive in Israel, Why Not in the U.S.? When Jews conflate critism of Israel with anti-Semitism, they are shifling legitimate political expression.
Benjamin Gladstone..Self-Determination Is Crucial for Jews Anti-Zionism supports the millennia-old status of Jews existing beneath and between other peoples, rejecting our right to stand for ourselves.
Omar Zahzah..Zionism Justifies Discrimination and Oppression My relatives were among the Palestinians displaced in the creation of Israel. Anti-Zionism is a principled anti-racist position.
Sherene Seikaly..Anti-Zionism Can and Should Be Anti-Racism Zionism continues the oppressive hierarchical categorization of humanity that helped breed anti-Semitism.
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY
Times] RE:... “Is
Anti-Zionism Merely
Anti-Semitism in Disguise?”
April
4 Room for Debate
This debate misses the
point that
many critics of Israel, including Jewish Americans, are not
calling for an end
to the Jewish state, rather they are calling for an end to the
occupation. That
position traps them in the middle.
They do not identify with hard-line pro-Palestinian
supporters who do call for the end of the Jewish state, nor do
they identify
with right-wing Jewish Americans who support Israel including
its occupation. But
worse than being in the middle is that
they are denied their right of political expression and free
speech by the
right-wing’s insistence that any criticism of Israel is
anti-Semitic.
PatnJeff Warner
This service will be suspended until April 15.
Please note letter by our colleague Lillian Laskin published in Wednesday’s LA Times, page A14, also on web at http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0406-wednesday-israeli-soldier-palestinian-20160406-story.html under title “Debating the death of a Palestinian assailant in the West Bank.”
I see the argument supporting the apparent cold-blooded killing of a wounded Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli soldier as analogous to the myriad excuses given by American police officers who shoot unarmed people with impunity. ("In Israel, many now find justification for the videotaped killing of a Palestinian," March 31)
The entire world knows about the U.S. and the wanton killing of our citizens by our police. I am sure the world also sees this incident of the Israeli soldier shooting the Palestinian man while he was lying on the ground following in the same footsteps.
This reckless behavior can only undermine any moral influence in the eyes of others.
Lillian Laskin, Los Angeles
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MODEL
LETTER TO LA & NY
TIMES
NO MODEL LETTER TODAY
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing. items today:
NY Times: three. items today:
- ...Israeli Soldier to Be Charged With Manslaughter in Shooting of Palestinian Assailant; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/world/middleeast/israeli-soldier-to-be-charged-with-manslaughter-in-shooting-of-palestinian-assailant.html ...Reports Israel’s military prosecutors intended to file a manslaughter charge against a soldier who fatally shot a Palestinian assailant in the head in Hebron last month as he lay on a road, wounded and subdued. The episode, captured on video, has pitted military and defense officials who say procedures were breached against many Israelis who see the soldier as a hero
- ...In West Bank, Israel Imposes Pop-Up Checkpoints and Road Closings; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/middleeast/in-west-bank-israel-carries-out-a-crackdown-road-by-road.html ...Reports Israeli imposed pop-up checkpoints and closings lasting several days have disrupted the routines of Palestinian residents, whose ability to move through the occupied territory was already precarious. But they are local and have not gained much traction against this Israeli collective punishment.
- ...Bernie Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Coordinator for Vulgar Remarks About Netanyahu; http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/14/bernie-sanders-suspends-jewish-outreach-coordinator-after-reports-of-her-criticisms-of-israel/ ...Reports The Sanders campaign’s announcement on Tuesday that Simone Zimmerman would be its national Jewish outreach coordinator delighted her fellow left-wing Jewish political activists and encouraged their belief that public expressions of disgust with the Israeli government had edged into the acceptable mainstream of Democratic politics. But, On Thursday, Sanders suspended Zimmerman, 25, after revelations that she had used vulgarities in Facebook posts about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Hillary Clinton. Here is the post in question
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE:... “Bernie Sanders Campaign Suspends Jewish Outreach Coordinator for Vulgar Remarks About Netanyahu” April 14In Thursday’s Democratic debate Bernie Sanders took a major step towards peace in Israel-Palestine by acknowledging the humanity of the Palestinian people. Peace will never come until the Israelis accept the humanity of the Palestinians, acknowledge their right to self-determination, and are ready to end the occupation. But that will never happen as long as the United States fully supports the illegal Israeli occupation. But Sanders move towards peace was negated by the Simone Zimmerman incident. Sanders appointed Zimmerman his outreach coordinator. But the Jewish establishment forced Sanders to suspend Zimmerman because she dared to criticize Netanyahu and is vocally opposed to settlements. Until American political leaders are ready to stand for what they believe, and buck the Israeli Lobby, there is no chance for peace.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing. items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Criticizing Israel, Bernie Sanders Highlights Split Among Jewish Democrats; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/us/politics/bernie-sanders-israel.html ...Discusses Democratic and especially Jewish Democratic reaction to Bernie Sanders’s comments at Thursday’s Democratic debate about a proper United States position with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sanders criticized Israel’s excessive force during the 2014 Gaza bombardment, and the U.S. position of always supporting Israel when he said “There comes a time when if we pursue justice and peace, we are going to have to say that Netanyahu is not right all of the time.” Sanders comments opened a long simmering struggle over the appropriate level of criticism when it comes to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Pro-Israel people attack Sanders as being anti-Israel whereas pro-peace people appreciate the opening of a discussion towards peace.
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Jeff Warner
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times]RE:...
“Criticizing Israel, Bernie Sanders
Highlights Split Among Jewish Democrats” April
16
Bernie Sanders may be the oldest presidential candidate seeking the presidency, but he is the only candidate to represent the future. Sanders wants the United States to recognize the humanity of Palestinians as individuals, and the collective right of Palestinians to self-determination. And Sanders wants the United States to help Israel adopt that recognition as the only route to peace. And that message resonates with young people.
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PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israel Will Never Give Golan Heights to Syria, Netanyahu Vows; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/world/middleeast/israel-will-never-give-golan-heights-to-syria-netanyahu-vows.html ...Reports During a cabinet meeting held in the Israeli-controlled portion of the territory, PM Netanyahu called on the world to recognize Israel’s sovereignty there and vowed never to return the area to Syria. No country in the world recognizes Israeli tacit annexation of the Golan Heights.
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Jeff Warner
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Israel Will Never Give Golan Heights to Syria, Netanyahu Vows” April 17
Another example of policy differences between the United States and Israel. For years the Israeli government has made it clear that Israel reserves the right to annex most of the West Bank at a time that suits them – likely after most Palestinians are either forced out or corralled in enclaves. And that unwillingness to allow Palestinians their right of self-determination is the major barrier to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now Netanyahu put the Golan Heights in the same category, making peace with Syria (at some future time when the country is stabilized) impossible.
Both these Israeli positions are contrary to United States policy. Yet the United States enables these Israeli policies by it annual military support of $3.1 billion now, scheduled to increase by 50% over the next few years.
If the united States
wants to promote
peace in the region, a good place to start is to end it military
support of
Israel’s territorial expansionism.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one.
item today:
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...Article on A3 Israel owns Golan, Netanyahu says; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-syria-20160417-story.html...Reports Israeli PM Netanyahu said Israel will never relinquish control over the Golan Heights and called on the international community to accept that fact. He said the chaos of the Syrian civil war makes returning the Golan too risky. Israel effectively annexed the Golan Heights decades ago, but that annexation is not recognized by any other country who consider the Golan occupied.
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israelis Find New Tunnel From Gaza Into Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/world/middleeast/israelis-find-new-tunnel-from-gaza-into-israel.html ...Reports Israeli army said it discovered a tunnel running from Gaza to Israel. Israeli said it destroyed the tunnel.
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Jeff Warner
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[for LA Times] RE:
“Israel
owns Golan, Netanyahu says” April
18
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on web Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter in shooting of wounded Palestinian knife attacker; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-soldier-20160418-story.html...Reports Israel’s military prosecutor formally charged a combat medic with manslaughter in the shooting of a Palestinian knife attacker in the West Bank last month, saying that the soldier violated open-fire rules and acted without ju Soldier was accused of firing from close range at the head of Abdel Fattah Sharif, who had been lying prone on the ground with multiple bullet wounds for several minutes after the knife attack on an Israeli soldier in Hebron.stification.
NY Times: three. items today:
- ...Israeli Convicted in Murder of Palestinian Teenager; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/middleeast/israel-murder-conviction-palestinian.html ...Reports The Jerusalem District Court rejected an insanity defense by Yosef Haim Ben-David, who could face a life sentence for the abduction and death of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian American teen who was burned to death in 2014. Two younger men were already convicted.
- ... Bus Bombing in Jerusalem Wounds 21; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/world/middleeast/jerusalem-bus-fire.html ...Reports A bomb exploded on a bus in Jerusalem, wounding about 21 people, two seriously. The bombing added to a sense of vulnerability among many Israelis after months of simmering violence. Hamas praised the bombing but did not claim responsibility. Netanyahu said it was terrorism [i.e., planted or carried by Palestinians], but police say bomb may have been a criminal act.
- Roger Cohen column...Bernie’s Israel Heresy; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/opinion/bernie-sanders-israel-heresy.html ...Puts Sander’s Israel-Palestine comments at last week’s Democratic debate into a world context. Notes that although Sanders broke new ground for an American politician, what he said is the consensus in the rest of the world. Says by expressing the consensus view in much of the world, Sanders sets down an important marker for more open American debate of Israeli policies. Cohen says “A growing number of Americans committed to Israel’s security and its Jewish and democratic character” are ready to follow Sander’s lead to treat Palestinians with respect and dignity as the path to peace.
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Jeff Warner
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MODEL LETTER TO NY TIMES
[for NY Times] RE:... “Bernie’s Israel Heresy” April 19 columnRoger Cohen recognizes
that the only
path to peace between Israelis and Palestinians is a Palestinian
state
alongside Israel, and for that to happen, American political
leaders and the American
media must stop blaming Palestinians for everything bad and
seeing Israel as a
defenseless victim. Bernie
Sanders’
remarks on Israel-Palestine at the Democratic debate last week
represented the
first step for the American political class too the actual
reality that Israel
oppresses Palestinians and is the major present barrier to
peace. Sanders and Cohen
know that progress will not
be easy, but both recognize that progress towards peace can only
occur when
America stops looking at Israel with rose-colored glasses.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times:
two
item today:
- ...Israel Says It Has Uncovered Jewish Extremist Cell in West Bank; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/world/middleeast/israel-uncovered-jewish-extremist-cell-west-bank.html ...Reports Israel police and Shin Bet said they uncovered a new “Jewish terrorist network” of extremists in the West Bank that was responsible for several recent attacks against Palestinians, including the attempted arson of at least one home as people slept inside. Six members arrested including a soldier.
- Letter...Bernie Sanders’s Criticism of Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/opinion/bernie-sanderss-criticism-of-israel.html ...Rabbi responds to Roger Cohen’s column. Says Gaza 2014 bombardment was not disproportionate because Hamas attacked Israel. [Assertion is not true, and even if it was, conclusion is illogical.]
PatnJeff Warner
My letter in today’s LA Times. Full text below
- ...Two letters on A143 Why Israel still occupies Golan; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0421-thursday-golan-israel-syria-occupation-20160421-story.html ...1st says Israel had to attack and occupy Golan because Syria was bombarding Israeli civilians. [But Moshe Dayan admitted that “many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland.”]. 2nd letter by me called for an end to American arms transfers to Israel as a way to promote peace. See full letter below
NY Times: no item today:
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Jeff Warner
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My letter published in today’s LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0421-thursday-golan-israel-syria-occupation-20160421-story.html
To the editor: For years the Israeli government has made it clear that Israel reserves the right to annex most of the West Bank at a time that suits them — likely after most Palestinians are either forced out or corralled in enclaves. That unwillingness to allow Palestinians their right of self-determination is the major barrier to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the Golan Heights in the same category, making peace with Syria (at some future time when the country is stabilized) impossible.
Both these Israeli positions are contrary to U.S. policy. Yet the United States enables these Israeli policies by it annual military support of more than $3 billion now, scheduled to increase by 50% over the next few years.
If the United States wants to promote peace in the region, ending military support of Israel's territorial expansionism would be a good start.
Jeff Warner, Los Angeles
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: two. items today:
- ...Article on web He's Jewish, she's Muslim, and they may be heading toward a showdown over Jerusalem's holiest site; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-temple-mount-20160422-story.html ...Profiles a Palestinian and a Jewish activist, both of whom consider the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy and central to their religion. Discusses interaction with Israeli government and police.
- ..Yossi Klein Halevi.Op-Ed on A21 The Jewish story under assault; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0422-halevi-passover-unesco-20160422-story.html ...Says there is a war on Jews that denies that Jews are a nation. Halevi uses religious dogma to defend the concept that Jews are a nation, something that Arabs and especially Palestinian reject. Then attacks U.N. UNESCO resolution that denounces Israel over prayer-rights on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount, thus denying the Jewish people history on the land.
NY Times: not available today:
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Jeff Warner
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[for LA Times] RE: “The Jewish story under assault” April 22 Op-Ed
Yossi Klein Halevi’s essay is a defense of the fundamental plank of Zionist ideology – namely that Jews are a nation with pure blood and the right of self-determination. Halevi says that Jews have pure blood because “Judaism was never intended to be a universal faith, only the faith of a specific people.” That may be religious dogma, but it is neither history or science. Yet what is the Jewish story if not history?
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A3 from Friday’s web Tensions at holy site flares anew; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-temple-mount-20160422-story.html ...Profiles a Palestinian and a Jewish activist, both of whom consider the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy and central to their religion. Discusses interaction with Israeli government and police.
NY Times: not available today:
- ...Israel Names Palestinian as Bomber in Jerusalem Bus Attack; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/world/middleeast/israel-jerusalem-bus-bombing-palestinian-suspect.html ...Reports Israel named Abdul-Hamid Abu Srour, 19, a Palestinian, as the suspect in Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem. Srour’s family praised him calling him a hero. Srour was wounded in the blast and died in a hospital. That was the first bus bombing in years and revived for many Israelis and Palestinians the memory of the second Palestinian uprising.
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Jeff Warner
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PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Two letters on A19 ‘Stories’ that cause suffering; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0424-sunday-religion-middle-east-20160324-story.html ...Respond to Yossi Klein Halevi’s Op-Ed defending Jewish nationhood. 1st says Religious stories should stay in religious and not intrude on the general secular world. 2nd says Halevi is wrong when he claims that all Jews regard non-believers as Jews, and cites Israel’s Minister of religious Services who seems to insist that only orthodox Jews living in Israel are real Jews.
NY Times: nothing today:
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Danny Danon (Israeli ambassador to U.N.) Op-Ed on A13 Can we talk face-to-face?; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0425-danon-israel-ambassador-peace-deal-20160425-story.html ...Says only direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine can yield diplomatic progress on the Israeli-Palestine issue. Says U.S., U.N., or other countries attempts to bring the parties together never work. Says Israel is trying by the Palestinians are avoiding talks because they do not accept Israel. [full of distorted history]
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Israel Frees Palestinian Girl, 12, Who Tried to Stab Guard; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/world/middleeast/israel-frees-palestinian-girl-12-who-tried-to-stab-guard.html ...Reports Dima al-Wawi, the youngest known Palestinian inmate, was released weeks early and greeted with a hero’s welcome in her West Bank hometown. She said she intended to kill the guard and was hoping to be martyred.
- Letter...Peace in Israel, With Conviction; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/opinion/peace-in-israel-with-conviction.html ...Respond to Roger Cohen April 19 column about Sanders’s realistic Israel statement. Israeli writer says the Palestinians want to destroy Israel and Roger Cohen and Bernie Sanders just do not understand.
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Jeff Warner
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[for LA Times] RE: “Can we talk face-to-face?” April 25 Op-Ed
Israel’s right-wing ambassador Danny Danon is disingenuous when he says that only direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiation can yield progress in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. He cites the Israel-Egypt treaty completing discounting the role played by U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978. He is even more disingenuous when he says progress rests on the Palestinians accepting Israel. Does Danon completely forget that the PLO officially accepts the existence of Israel. In fact, it is Israel that does not accept a Palestinian right of self-determination and a right to the state assigned to them by the U.N. in 1947.
Beyond what Danon writes, there is a role for the United States and that is to stop enabling Israel refusal to accept Palestinian rights, and the best fay for the United States to do that is to end its over $3 billion annual gift of military hardware to Israel that Israel uses to deepen its occupation and oppress Palestinians.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israel’s Vow to Keep Golan Brings ‘Deep Concern’ at Security Council; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/world/middleeast/golan-israel-un-security-council.html ...Reports the U.N. Security Council members rejected Israel’s claim never to return the Golan Heights to Syria. Security Council President Ambassador Liu Jieyi (China) said Security Council members “expressed their deep concern over recent Israeli statements about the Golan, and stressed that the status of the Golan remains unchanged,” namely that Resolution 497, which described Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights as ‘null and void,’ remains in effect
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[for NY
Times] RE:... “Israel’s
Vow to Keep Golan Brings ‘Deep
Concern’ at Security Council” April
27
It is time to for the U.N. Security Council to enforce its 1981, long-standing Resolution 497 not to accept Israel’s unilateral law effectively annexing the Golan Heights. All U.N. Security Council members, including the United States, oppose Israeli attempts to consolidate its sovereignty over the Golan. Now is the time to act.
A good start would be a new U.N. Security Council resolution ordering Israeli troops off the Golan to be replaced by a U.N. peace-keeping force. The peace-keeping force can hold the Golan until Syria is stabilized and is ready to renew its control over the Golan. The peace-keepers should also set-up a government that collects fees from Israeli farmers who continue to farm on the Golan on land that is rightfully Syrian.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A5 Israel fears more attacks; url...Reports knife attacks have subsided in recent weeks, but Israel police shot and killed a 23 year old Palestinian woman and her teenage brother at the Qalandia checkpoint. Israel police shot Palestinians multiple time, and would not let Palestinian medical personal; access to the bodies to help them. .
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: two. items today:
- ...Article from Thursday A5 that was missing url Israel fears more attacks; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-shooting-20160427-story.html ...Reports knife attacks have subsided in recent weeks, but Israel police shot and killed a 23 year old Palestinian woman and her teenage brother at the Qalandia checkpoint. Israel police shot Palestinians multiple time, and would not let Palestinian medical personal; access to the bodies to help them.
- ...Two letters on A12 Peace talks have served only Israel; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0429-friday-palestinians-israel-direct-negotiation-20160430-story.html...Respond to Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon’s Op-Ed. 1st takes exception with most of what Danon wrote. Says past negotiations have only helped Israel, and asks why negotiate now when Netanyahu says there will never be a Palestinian state. 2nd says Israel shows it is not interested in peace when it keeps expanding illegal settlements. Both letters say the Palestinian’s hope is the BDS movement.
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Surge in Palestinian Youths in Prison Tests Israel’s Justice System; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/world/middleeast/surge-in-palestinian-youths-in-prison-tests-israels-justice-system.html ...Profiles Dima al-Wawi, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl jailed for two months for planning to stab an Israeli soldier, and other children in Israeli prisons. There are hundreds of Palestinian children jailed since attacks on Israelis surged.
- ...Obama-Netanyahu Rift Impedes U.S. Offer of Record Aid Deal for Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/world/middleeast/30prexy.html ...Reports on the status of renewing the agreement between the U.S. and Israel for the U.S. to gift Israel billion of dollars in military aid every year. The number has been $3.1 billion for the past decade. Israel wants more than $40 billion over the next decade, but the Obama Administration is balking that the number is too high, although Obama seems to want to finalize a generous package, perhaps so it can pressure Israel later this year towards a two-state solution. The big problem is that Netanyahu thinks he can get more from the next president, but many advisors think that will be a bad bet. The Obama-Netanyahu rift over the Iran deal does not help conclude the agreement. Obama is being pressured by a majority of Senators to conclude a deal.
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Jeff Warner
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Obama-Netanyahu Rift Impedes U.S. Offer of Record Aid Deal for Israel” April 29Israel is already the biggest recipient of U.S. aid, receiving a gift of $3.1 billion in military aid from the United States taxpayers each year. That is obscene because Israel uses that military aid to oppress the Palestinians, deepen the occupation, and make peace ever more difficult. Now Israel and the American political establishment are working to increase the annual American gift, perhaps by as much as 50%.
The United States says it supports a Palestinian state alongside Israel. It is time for Congress and the Administration to recognize that gifting Israel with massive amounts of military aid is incompatible with Israel ever agreeing to share the land between the River and the Sea with a Palestinian state.
As a Jewish American who longs for peace, I urge the United States to cut military aid to Israel, not increase it, as a positive step to fulfilling the U.S. partition of Palestine into a Jewish state that already exists, and a Palestinian state that is longed for by the Palestinian people.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A4 and
Monday’s web
Israeli
justice minister wants to
extend laws to settlements; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-settlement-legislation-20160502-snap-story.html...Reports Israeli Justice
Minister Ayelet Shaked said she’s pushing a policy that would
ensure that all
legislation passed by the Knesset would automatically be
applied to settlements
in the West Bank. Critics
say that would
put Israel at odds with the international community because it
would deepen the
apartheid that already exists between settlers and
Palestinians.
NY
Times:
one. items today:
-
Kenan Malik Op-Ed...The British Left’s ‘Jewish Problem’; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/opinion/the-british-lefts-jewish-problem.html ...Says anti-Semitism is a problem for the British left in general, and the Labor Party in particular. Says, “It is not that the left is packed with anti-Semites; rather, too many among them [the left] have been willing to accommodate bigotry.” Notes this is a change because anti-Semitism has historically been a problem for the right. The left’s move toward identity politics allows going after Jews because of the sins of Israel.
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[for LA Times] RE: “Israeli justice minister wants to extend laws to settlements” May 3
The automatic application of Israeli law to Jews living in illegal settlements is another step that Israel is taking into deeper apartheid – where Jews and Palestinians live alongside each other, but under different sets of laws. Even Israeli human rights workers are pointing this out.
The United States’
deep commitment to
Israel cannot, and should not, be unaffected by Israel’s
continual movement into
a more and more unequal society.
The
United States should protect a democratic Israel from attacks at
the United
Nations, but it must not do that for a racist Israel. And the Justice Minister’s
move to apply
Israeli laws to settlements is another Israel move to a more
racist
society.
PatnJeff Warner
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NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israeli Gets Life in Prison for Murder of Palestinian Teenager; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/middleeast/israeli-gets-life-in-prison-for-murder-of-palestinian-teenager.html...Reports an Israeli court sentenced Israeli Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, to life in prison plus an additional 20 years for the 2014 murder of a Palestinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 16, who was abducted, choked, beaten and set on fire. The court rejected an insanity plea in the case that roiled Israelis and Palestinians. Ben-David was also ordered to pay compensation to the family of the murdered teenager.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Israeli Gets Life in Prison for Murder of Palestinian Teenager” May 4The Israeli court has
served justice
by the life plus 20 year sentence to the Israeli who abducted
and burned to
death a Palestinian teenage in 2014. But
the human rights community must be vigil to assure that the
murderer’ sentence
is not reduced by executive action. That
has happened in the past when an Israeli is convicted of killing
a Palestinian,
and it negates the justice done by the court and makes a mockery
of Israeli’s
claim to honor justice.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: three item today:
- ...Israelis Find Second Tunnel From Gaza and May Know of Others; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/world/middleeast/israelis-find-second-tunnel-from-gaza-and-may-know-of-others.html ...Reports Israel’s military said it found a second tunnel burrowed from Gaza into Israel. Officials revealed the arrest of a Hamas operative who disclosed “much information” about the group’s digging. Times ties finding tunnel to a flare-up in violence along the border in recent days.
- ...Israel Responds to Hamas Mortar Fire With Airstrikes in Gaza Strip; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-strip-tunnels.html ...Reports The mortar rounds, fired toward Israeli defense forces, were intended to discourage Israel from excavating areas east of Gaza in a search for new tunnels. There were six mortar shots. Israel responded with tank fire and airstrikes.
- letter...Palestinian Youths in Jail; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/opinion/palestinian-youths-in-jail.html...Says he was “appalled” by the sympathetic tone of an article about youths who had attacked Israelis. [But not appalled by Israel’s 50-year occupation depriving Palestinians of all rights.]
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- letter..Criticisms of Zionism; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/opinion/criticisms-of-zionism.html ...Says criticism of Israeli government actions is legitimate, but criticism that negates a Jewish right to self-determination is anti-Semitic, even if it was not intended as such.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- ...Palestinian Teenager Is Convicted of Attempted Murder in Stabbing Attack; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/middleeast/palestinian-teenager-is-convicted-of-attempted-murder-in-stabbing-attack.html ...Reports Ahmad Manasra was found guilty by an Israeli court in a stabbing attack that critically injured an Israeli teenager, Naor Ben-Ezra, 13, and wounded an Israeli man. The attack was part of a wave of attacks by isolated Palestinian that started last October. Attack took place in a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A3 Israel seeing fewer knife attacks; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-lone-wolf-20160511-story.html...Reports a decrease in knife attacks [although no evidence is presented]. Claims decrease is due to actions by the Israeli army and Palestinian security, including demolition of stabber’s home, arrest Palestinians who discuss attacks on social media, and a school campaign. Palestinian critics say the wave of attacks was bound to decrease because it did not have any political leadership.
NY Times: one. items today:
- Shmuel Rosner Op-Ed...The Israel Defense Forces vs. the People of Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/opinion/the-israel-defense-forces-vs-the-people-of-israel.html ...Says Recounts a growing split between Israel’s military leaders and right-wing politicians an much of the public. Essence of the argument is the military is striving for some morality whereas the public seems to accept killing Palestinians with little excuse. Rosner calls for the military to concentrate on the battlefield and not get into morals that he calls politics.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “The Israel Defense Forces vs. the People of Israel” May 11 Op-EdIt is not that Israeli military leaders are humanitarians, rather it is that Israeli’ right-wing politicians and much of the public is becoming nationalistic. It seems many if not most Israelis do not concede any rights to Palestinians, even a basic right to life. They are even more outrageous than Donald Trump’s talk about Muslims and Mexicans.
As Israel moves more
into fascism,
American political leaders will find it harder and harder to
claim that the
U.S. and Israel share values. In
fact,
that point has already been reached, and it should be
acknowledged by reducing
American gift of military aid to Israel, not a massive increase
that aid as
Congress and the Administration proposing.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- ...The House Lights, if Not the Stars, Shine Bright at Gaza’s Film Festival; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/world/middleeast/gaza-film-festival-hamas.html ...Profiles film festival in Gaza headlined by showing of “The Idol,” based on the story of Mohammed Assaf, a Gazan who won the real-life “Arab Idol” international contest. Discusses difficulties with infrastructure and Hamas rules. Hamas has the final cut on all the movies and insists the lights stay on to avoid any hanky-panky among the audience
PatnJeff Warner
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NY Times: two item today:
- Ted Cruz Op-Ed from Friday...The Mullahs and Their Missiles; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/opinion/ted-cruz-the-mullahs-and-their-missiles.html...Says Iran is testing medium and long range missiles that can attack Israel and then the United States. Says Iran is still dedicated to destroying Israel and fighting the United States. Argues to increase military aid to Israel.
- ...Solar Project Pairs Muslims and Jews to Aid West Bank Farmers; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/world/middleeast/solar-project-pairs-muslims-and-jews-to-aid-west-bank-farmers.html ...Profiles a $100K solar cell -water well project in the Jordan Valley, West Bank. Financed by “Build Israel Palestine,” a group of Jews and Muslims in the United States, with a technical team consisting of both Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslims.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
...Palestinian Museum Prepares to Open, Minus Exhibits; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/middleeast/palestinian-museum-birzeit-west-bank.html...Reports A $24 million building will open in the West Bank on Wednesday, but its inaugural display highlighting artifacts of Palestinian refugees was suspended after a disagreement between its board and its director, who lost his position.
PatnJeff Warner
...World Briefing on Monday's A3 Paris talks on peace to proceed; no url...Reports French are moving forward on attempts to restart peace talks over Israel’s objection. Meeting of 20 countries will occur in Paris this month.
NY Times: no item today:
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...French Plan for Middle East Paces Talks Hits a Familiar Snag; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/world/middleeast/french-plan-for-middle-east-peace-talks-hits-a-familiar-snag.html...Reports A French initiative to move beyond the current stalemate between the Israelis and Palestinians , only a week old, is already in trouble. The Israelis still refuse to participate, and John Kerry, perhaps siding with Israel, says he has a scheduling conflict and the May 30 meeting has been postponed.
- ...Benjamin Netanyahu Seeks Ultranationalists for Coalition in Israel; no url...Reports The prime minister, whose talks with the Zionist Union broke down, has offered to name Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, defense minister.
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[for NY
Times] RE:... “French
Plan for Middle East Paces
Talks Hits a Familiar Snag” May 18
If the French
initiative to move the
Israeli-Palestinian forward fails, as
seems probable, place the blame on the Obama
Administration. As
Israel’s largest donor of military aid,
the United States is uniquely positioned to assure that Israel
will attend the
Paris conference. The
United States has
not delivered. That
might explain Kerry’s
schedule conflict that forced the conference to be postponed. Surely with the political
cover of its final
year, the Obama Administration can find a way to get Israel to
cooperate in
peace talks.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- ... Moshe Yaalon, Israeli Defense Minister, Resigns; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/world/middleeast/moshe-yaalon-israeli-defense-minister-resigns.html .. .Reports PM Netanyahu made a deal with far right Yisrael Beiteinu party headed by Avigdor Liberman for Lieberman to become Defense Minister. Current Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon resigned from cabinet and Knesset. Apparently negotiations for the Labor Party to join government were a sham.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...As Hamas Tunnels Back Into Israel, Palestinians Are Afraid, Too; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/world/middleeast/hamas-tunnels-gaza-strip-israel.html ..Reports Hamas is busy tunneling its way back toward Israel, and Palestinians who live over the passageways fear they will bear the cost of the eventual Israeli response.
- ..Ronen Bergman Op-Ed .Israel’s Army Goes to War With Its Politicians; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/sunday/israels-army-goes-to-war-with-its-politicians.html...Says “IN most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies. In Israel, the opposite is happening. Here, politicians blatantly trample the state’s values and laws and seek belligerent solutions, while the chiefs of the Israel Defense Forces and the heads of the intelligence agencies try to calm and restrain them.” Says this is an inversion of the traditional positions of politicians and the military.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Israel’s Army Goes to War With Its Politicians” May 21 Op-EdHow can the United States continue to accept Israel as its prime ally in the Middle East? Israeli politicians are fascist in their absolute disregard of human rights of Palestinians and even of Israelis. And this rogue government is supported by a majority of the people.
Worse, the annual gift of over $3 billion in military aid make the United States complicit in Israeli human rights abuses. Israel does not share American values, nor is Israel a strategic interest of the United States. It is past time to end American support for the Israeli government military.
PatnJeff Warner
NY Times: one item today:
- ...A Window Into West Bank’s ‘Wildest, Most Violent’ Areas; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/world/middleeast/a-window-into-west-banks-wildest-most-violent-areas.html ...Reports on a documentary film, “The Settlers,” by the Israeli-American filmmaker Shimon Dotan, examines the “hilltop youth,” a explosive group of radical Jews. Profiles several film subjects.
PatnJeff Warner
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The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: six. items today:
- ...Avigdor Lieberman Named Israeli Defense Minister as Party Joins Coalition; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-lieberman.html ...Reports Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli hard-liner who was named defense minister, recently issued a typically blunt ultimatum to Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas, return bodies of Israelis or “or you are dead. From my point of view, simply reserve yourself a plot in the nearest cemetery."
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...Israel Allows Building Supplies to Enter Gaza Again; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/world/middleeast/israel-allows-building-supplies-to-enter-gaza-again.html ...Reports The Israeli military authorities on Monday allowed building supplies to start flowing into Gaza again, lifting a suspension that had blocked work for more than a month on thousands of houses destroyed in the 2014 summer war.
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...Israel Won’t Return Bodies of Palestinian Attackers; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/world/middleeast/israel-palestinian-attacks-ramadan.html ...Reports The internal security minister issued the order after online video appeared to show a large crowd at the funeral of a man who killed a rabbi last year.
- Tom Friedman column...Destroying Israel From Within; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/opinion/netanyahu-prime-minister-of-the-state-of-israel-palestine.html ...Says Netanyahu is turning Israel into a “binational state controlled by Jewish extremists.” [Note: what Friedman calls binational is really an apartheid state.] The latest sign is Netanyahu replaced Defense Minister Yaalon, who was determined to preserve the army’s highest standards, with Liberman who has no standards of conduct. Says Israel is unable to resolve its problems with neighbors has turned to fighting political opponents called “enemies from within.” Says Netanyahu is acting only for his political survival.
- NY Times editorial...A Baffling Hard-line Choice in Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/opinion/a-baffling-hard-line-choice-in-israel.html...Says Israeli PM Netanyahu’s selection of Avigdor Lieberman as defense minister is an error if Netanyahu wants good relations with the United States and other countries, and it makes peace in the Middle East more impossible than it already was.
- .Iris Zaki Op-Ed..The Shampoo Summit; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/opinion/the-shampoo-summit.html ...Profiles a hair salon in Haifa where Jewish and Arab women naturally interact.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Destroying Israel From Within” May 25 Op-EdThomas Friedman shows how Israel is descending into militarism and racism. But Friedman is sugar-coating the future by saying Israel is sinking into “a de facto binational state controlled by Jewish extremists.” A more accurate statement would be to characterize the future Greater Israel as an apartheid state in which Jews and Palestinians live in the same area but under different sets of laws – Jews under Israeli civil law and Palestinians under violent military rule.
These new developments should be enough for the United States to stop supplying Israel with over $3 billion worth of American weapons every year, and surely to end ongoing talks to increase that amount by up to 50%. Gifting Israel with billions of dollars each year does not promote peace, it just encourages Israel into more anti-democratic positions.
PatnJeff Warner
- ...World Briefing on A4 Turkey: Ties with Israel may be renewed; no url...Reports An Israel-Turkey deal to restore relations is nearly complete. Other media report that Turkey did not get the Siege of Gaza lifted, but did get right to provide aid to Gaza through an Israeli port. We will see how restrictive Israel is in allowing passage of Turkish goods.
NY Times: two item today:
- From Tuesday...Smugglers in West Bank Open Door to Jobs in Israel, and Violence; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/world/middleeast/west-bank-israel-palestinians-smugglers.html...Background on a smuggling industry that helps Palestinians without Israeli work permits cross the wall into Israel. This route is taken by tens of thousands of Palestinians every day. Notes in passing some of the knife attacks were done by Palestinians who were smuggled across the wall.
- .From Wednesday ..Palestinian, 15, Killed as Israeli Forces Sought to Halt Stone Throwing; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/world/middleeast/israel-palestinian-violence.html ...Reports Israeli forces opened fire at a Palestinian car in the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, killing one Palestinian teenager and wounding four others, according to relatives and Palestinian officials. The teenagers appeared to be innocent bystanders who were hit while the military tried to halt Palestinians who were throwing stones and firebombs. Military call it a mistake. But soldiers deliberately shot after only determining the target was Palestinian.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- World Briefing...Middle East: Mahmoud Abbas Claims Rabbis Urged Israel to Poison Palestinians’ Water; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-claims-rabbis-urged-israel-to-poison-palestinians-water.html ...Reports PA President Abbas told the European Parliament that Israeli rabbis called on the Israeli government to poison Palestinian water. Israeli PM Netanyahu denounced the allegation as a “blood libel.” Abbas’ statement is based on news reports that a Rabbi Shlomo Mlma, whom it called the “chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settlements,” had issued an “advisory opinion in which he allowed Jewish settlers to poison water in Palestinian villages and cities in the West Bank.“ But the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported that news outlets had not been able to find a Rabbi Mlma or any listing for the council mentioned. Abbas’ remark was not included in the official Arabic transcript of Abbas’ talk.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Middle East: Mahmoud Abbas Claims Rabbis Urged Israel to Poison Palestinians’ Water” June 24Palestinian President Abbas’ apparently incorrect accusation was a blunder that will cause all the Palestinian people more suffering.
Not to excuse Abbas’ error, but radical Israeli rabbis, whose salaries are paid by the state, have previously issued calls to indiscriminately kill Palestinians that were never criticized by the Israeli government. One example occurred during the 2014 Israeli bombardment of Gaza that killed 2,300 people, mostly civilians. At that time the Israeli army’s head Rabbi issued a call that encouraged Israeli soldiers to kill civilians.
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Abbas Retracts Claim That Israeli Rabbis Called for Poisoning Water; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-israel-rabbis-poison-palestinian-water.html ...Reports The president of the Palestinian Authority said it had become “evident” that an allegation he made in a speech to the European Parliament was “baseless.”
- .Etgar Keret Op-Ed. .I’m Not Anti-Israel, I’m Ambi-Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/opinion/im-not-anti-israel-im-ambi-israel.html ...Points out that Israel is a real country and as such is a mixture of good and bad. Rejects labels such as “anti-Israel (or Palestine)” and “pro-Israel (or Palestine)” as limiting discussion. Suggests “ambi-Israel (or Palestine)” to allow richer discussion. For example, someone who is ambi-Israel can support an end of the occupation while still condemning Hamas.
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[for NY
Times] RE:... “m Not
Anti-Israel, I’m Ambi-Israel” June 25
Op-Ed
Etgar Keret is correct that the terms “anti (or pro-)-Israel (or Palestine)” limit discussion and promote tribalism to the detriment of any real exchange of information or learning opportunity. Israel (and Palestine) are real countries that each consist of a mixture of good and bad – think the United States in 1950, or even today.
Keret does not make the distinction between being Ambi-Israel and ambi-Palestine clear. It is easier to understand by taking my own case – I am ambi-American in that I am proud of being an American but fiercely oppose America’s foreign military adventures and even more so the United States unflinching support of Israel including Israel 50-year unjust and illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on web Heat wave aggravates chronic water problems in occupied West Bank; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-west-bank-water-snap-story.html...Reports effects on Palestinian health an d business resulting from a Israel cutting off Palestinian water during a heat wave in the West Bank. Palestinians already were forced to live with a sub-standard water supply, but the heat wave make the situation worse.
NY Times: no. items today:
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[for LA Times] RE: “Heat wave aggravates chronic water problems in occupied West Bank” June 26
This article demonstrates once again that Israel is not meeting its obligations as the occupying power in the West Bank as set out in the 1907 Hague Regulations (arts 42-56) and the Fourth Geneva Convention. Specifically, an occupying power is required, among other things, to ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards to the population under occupation. By cutting off Palestinian’s water, Israel is failing this obligation.The United States
should take note of
Israel’s failure when it considers shielding Israel from
accountability in the
U.N. Security Council.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A3 from Sunday’s web West Bank water woes reach a boil; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-west-bank-water-snap-story.html...Reports effects on Palestinian health an d business resulting from a Israel cutting off Palestinian water during a heat wave in the West Bank. Palestinians already were forced to live with a sub-standard water supply, but the heat wave make the situation worse.
NY Times: one. items today:
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...Israel and Turkey Agree to Resume Full Diplomatic Ties; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/israel-and-turkey-agree-to-resume-full-diplomatic-ties.html ...Reports Israel and Turkey, once close regional allies who fell out after a the 2010 incident when Israel attacked a Turkish humanitarian ship Mavi Marmara to Gaza in international waters, plan to conclude their agreement on Monday. Both sides were pressured by the U.S. to patch up their disagreement.
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PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A3 Israel, Turkey normalize ties; http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-israel-turkey-20160627-snap-story.html...Reports Israel and Turkey will exchange ambassadors as a sign of reconciliation, but that does not mean there are warm relations between the two states. Israel will pay $20 million for Mavi Marmara families and Turkey will drop suite against soldiers who killed Turkish humanitarian workers. Gaza siege remains but Turkey will ship materials to Gaza.
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Diplomatic Deal With Turkey Upsets Israelis Wary of Conceding Too Much; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/world/middleeast/israel-turkey-diplomatic-relations.html ...Reports Netanyahu is criticized from l;eft and right for reconciliation deal with Turkey. Left asks why the bodies of 2 Israelis will not be returned. Right complains of “gift” to Hamas of Turkish aid rejects $20 million compensation to families of murdered Turkish humanitarian workers.
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[for LA Times] RE: “Israel, Turkey normalize ties” June 28
[for NY Times] RE:... “Diplomatic Deal With Turkey Upsets Israelis Wary of Conceding Too Much” June 28
This must be a fair deal because the Israeli government is being criticized from both left and right. But unfortunately the deal does nothing to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace. The deal leaves the illegal and morally corrupt Gaza Siege in place, although it allows Turkey to ship materials to Gaza.
The United States
urged both parties
into this deal. Now the
U.S. must assure
that Israel does not block Turkish shipments to Gaza. More important, the U.S.
must now pressure
Israel to completely end the siege that has destroyed the Gaza
economy and put
its 1.8 million residents at risk of a full-out humanitarian
crisis.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Yossi Klein Halevi Op-Ed on A13 An immoral boycott; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-halevi-bds-is-immoral-20160628-snap-story.html ...Says the BDS movement’s true goal is to negates the concept of a nation-state for the Jewish people. Says BDS supporters who use BDS to achieve two-states are “duped” because the movement will not stop there but continue to destroy Israel. Claims Israelis really wants two-states for their own security but that goal has been undermined by Palestinian refusal. Says the movement to criminalize Israel is a crime and the BDS movement must be “ostracized for its bigotry and hatred.”
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israeli Military Revokes Use of Maximum Force to Foil Captures; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/world/middleeast/israel-hannibal-procedure.html...Reports the Israeli military has canceled a contentious directive known as the Hannibal procedure, which calls for the use of maximum force to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers, even at the risk of harming them. Hannibal was used during Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza. It is blamed for killing 135 Palestinian civilians and was pointed to as a violation of international law.
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Times] RE:
“An immoral
boycott” June 29
Op-Ed
submit using LA Times on-line form
Yossi Klein Halevi may be correct that the underlying BDS goal is to destroy Israel. But Halevi is wrong to use that as an excuse for Israel not to end the occupation and accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. Halevi says BDS supporters who want two-states are being duped. Maybe, but he refuses to understand that best way to destroy the BDS movement is for Israel to end the occupation, and let the BDS movement collapse when it loses the majority of its supporters whose goal is ending the occupation.
Halevi does not seem to recognize that Israel’s constant expansion of settlements is the underlying strength of the BDS movement. Rather than stop stealing Palestinian land by ending settlement expansion, Halevi prefers Israel to consolidate its hold on all the land.
The way forward to peace is for the United States to end its unflinching support of Israel that enables Israel’s refusal to make peace with Palestinians.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: three. items today:
- ...Faulting Both Israelis and Palestinians, Report Aims to Revive Peace Talks; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-quartet-report.html ...Reports the Middle East Quartet assessment of the Israeli-Palestine problem says Israel should cease its policy of building settlements in the occupied West Bank, stop setting aside land for “exclusive Israeli use” and end the practice of denying Palestinians permission to build homes. The Quartet also called for Hamas to stop glorifying individuals who carry out deadly attacks, points to the Palestinian Authority’s lack of control on the restive Gaza Strip, and Palestinian leaders to “cease incitement to violence.”
- ...Israel Imposes Harsh Restrictions on Palestinians in West Bank Attacks; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/world/middleeast/israeli-father-killed-in-attack-on-familys-car-in-west-bank.html ...Reports After two deadly attacks in the West Bank in two days, the Israeli government and military announced it would prevent all Palestinian movement between towns and villages in the southern West Bank, including Hebron, and that it had ordered in two more battalions to secure the area. The Israeli government said it would withhold some crucial tax revenues it normally transfers to the Palestinian Authority
- ...Palestinian, 19, Stabs 13-Year-Old to Death in West Bank Settlement; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/middleeast/west-bank-kiryat-arba.html ...Reports The attack in the Kiryat Arba settlement was the latest in a series that began eight months ago; the assailant was shot and killed.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Faulting Both Israelis and Palestinians, Report Aims to Revive Peace Talks” July 1The Quartet’s report is a step forward towards Israeli-Palestinian peace, but does not go far enough to really make a difference. The report correctly identifies Israel’s continued settlement building and expropriation of Palestinian land as barriers to peace. The report says Israeli actions raise "legitimate questions about Israel's long-term intentions, which are compounded by the statements of some Israeli ministers that there should never be a Palestinian state."
But just pointing out how Israel works to prevent a Palestinian state alongside itself is not enough to change that dynamic that makes peace impossible. The Quartet must put teeth into its criticism. I suggest the United States, which co-signed the report, should stop shielding Israel from accountability in the U.N. Security Council. That will establish a different environment in which Israel will have to re-evaluate its policy of taking over the West Bank and preventing a viable Palestinian state from emerging.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...U.S. Offers to Increase Military Aid to Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/world/middleeast/us-increase-military-aid-israel.html ...Reports that ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Israel will increase the annual U.S. military gift to Israel by 35%, increasing it from over $3 billion to about $4 billion each year. The Administration said it is removing the special arrangement that allows Israel to spend a large fraction of the gift within Israel.
- ...U.N. Envoy Says Israeli Settlements ‘Undermine’ Peace Talks; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/middleeast/israeli-settlements-mideast-peace.html ...Reports the U.N. envoy charged with persuading the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks said that Israel’s policy of expanding settlements in the West Bank … “severely undermine hopes for peace.”
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Unfortunately, the Administration and Congress seem determined not only to continue gifting Israel each year will billions of dollars for military equipment, but increasing that gift to over $4 billion each year.
The worst aspect of this gift is that it violates United States’ own laws that require that American arms are used to promote human rights or for legitimate self-defense. Nevertheless, Israel’s uses American arms in unprovoked attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, and for deepening its occupation of Palestine and oppression of Palestinians.
Before American military gifts to Israel continue, there should be an investigation on how U.S. arms have been used by Israel and other recipients.
PatnJeff Warner
Congrats to colleagues Ruth Shapin, Marcy Winograd, and myself for our letters being published in today’s paper. Full text of these letters below.
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: two. items today:
- ...Eight letters on A19 Delicate dance in the Middle East; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-israel-palestine-20160703-snap-story.html...Respond to Yossi Klein Halevi’s June 29 Op-Ed. Six oppose Halevi; two support him. 1st says refusing the Palestinian right of return lacks “ethics and morality.” 2nd says Israel is a threat to peace because it is a racist state. 3rd implies that BDS is anti-Semitic. 4th, by colleague Ruth Shapin, asks why Israel continues to build settlements if, as Halevi says, its people want 2-states. 5th says Palestinians are anti-Israel. 6th, by me, says BDS will collapse when Israel ends it occupation, and notes the U.S. role in perpetuating the occupation. 7th says Israeli actions have destroyed the moral fiber of a Jewish state, and points to U.S. support as undermining peace. 8th, by colleague Marcy Winograd, says BDS is not a threat to peace and says denying Palestinians the right of return will never be accepted by Palestinians.
Full text of Shapin’s, Winograd’s, and my letter below.
- ...World Briefing on A3 Israel: Attack prompts airstrikes in Gaza; no url...Reports Israeli airstrikes in Gaza after a rocket hit a building in Israel.
NY Times: nothing today:
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To the editor: If the majority of Israelis favor two states, as Halevi notes, why does Israel continue to build settlements on the West Bank, the future Palestinian state?
It is unfair to blame the Palestinians for the decades-old conflict. Both sides have rejected peace proposals for various reasons.
It is past time for Israel and the Palestinians to end the impasse and establish two states, or a bi-national democratic state.
In the meantime, a peaceful boycott may persuade Israel, the stronger party, to stop building settlements and initiate peace talks.
Ruth Shapin, Orange
To the editor: I disagree that the anti-Israel boycott movement is a threat to peace. On the contrary, it is a non- violent form of resistance to decades of Israeli occupation, theft of Palestinian land, and monopolization of water.
As a non-Zionist Jew, I support equal rights for all in Israel, Palestine and the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland.
To deny them the right of return is analogous to barring Native Americans from their sacred land, something we would never expect the indigenous inhabitants here to accept because it would be tantamount to saying they had no right to exist in their homeland.
Marcy Winograd, Santa Monica
To the editor: Halevi may be correct that the underlying BDS goal is to destroy Israel. But Halevi is wrong to use that as an excuse for Israel not to end the occupation and accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Halevi says BDS supporters who want two-states are being duped. Maybe, but he refuses to understand that best way to destroy the BDS movement is for Israel to end the occupation, and let the BDS movement collapse when it loses the majority of its supporters whose goal is ending the occupation. Halevi does not seem to recognize that Israel’s constant expansion of settlements is the underlying strength of the BDS movement.
Rather than stop stealing Palestinian land by ending settlement expansion, Halevi prefers Israel to consolidate its hold on all the land.
The way forward to peace is for the U.S. to end its unflinching support of Israel that enables Israel’s refusal to make peace with Palestinians.
Jeff Warner, Los Angeles
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: two. items today:
- ...Article on A3 Israeli settlers shaken by stabbing; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-stabbing-20160704-snap-story.html...Recounts the killing of a teenager in her home and several other attacks in the West Bank. Reports the Israeli government imposed even more restrictions on Palestinians. Government says attacks are inspired by incitement by Palestinian political groups. Not a work about ongoing occupation.
- ...Editorial on A10 California goes after BDS; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-bds-bill-20160630-snap-story.html...Says a bill to punish companies that boycott Israel would be a mistake because boycotts, including of Israel, are protected free speech. Says the law being considered by the California legislature is meaningless except to allow politicians to feel they have supported Israel.
NY Times: nothing today:
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[for LA Times] RE: “California goes after BDS” July 5 Editorial
The Times is correct that AB-2844, the law being considered by the California legislature, will do nothing to protect the people of California from discrimination or to protect Israel from boycotts. The Times notes that boycotts, even against Israel, are protected speech. Not mentioned by the Times is that boycotts of Israel protest the 50 year occupation of Palestine that has destroyed the Palestinian economy, dispossessed Palestinians of their land and property, and deprived Palestinians of human and civil rights.
The way to protect Israel from a boycott is for Israel to end its illegal occupation and support an economically viable, sovereign Palestinian state alongside itself. When the occupation ends, so will any significant boycott movement.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one item today:
- ...Jewish Settlers, Attacked, Needed Help. A Palestinian Doctor Didn’t Hesitate; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/world/middleeast/west-bank-israel-palestinians-attacks.html ...Profiles Palestinian Dr. Ali Shroukh’s lifesaving efforts to save Jewish settlers on a West Bank road. His dedication has been hailed in Israel as inspirational in the face of months of increasing conflict. [Photo of Shroukh’s family shows children in military outfits.]
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one item today:
- Palestinians Stabbing Less but Shooting More, as Israel Cracks Down; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/world/middleeast/palestinians-stabbing-less-but-shooting-more-as-israel-cracks-down.html ...Reports Israel’s Shin Bet said the attack a month ago in Tel Aviv were “inspired” by Islamic State attacks in Paris and other places, and that the “lone-wolf” attackers were not recruited. [Without evidence], experts speculate that the knife intifada is transitioning from knife attacks to shootings. Polls show that in the absence of peace talks, more than half Palestinians backed a return to armed uprising
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one item today:
- ...Three letters on A19 What sets BDS activism apart; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-bds-israel-california-bill-20160710-snap-story.html...Respond to LA Times July 5 editorial. 1st and 2nd from LA City Councilmen defend the anti-BDS bill AB-2844 saying it protects California from discrimination . 3rd rambles and ends by criticizing the Times for poor coverage of BDS.
NY Times: one item today:
- ...Egyptian Minister Visits Israel in Push for Peace With Palestinians; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/world/middleeast/egypt-sameh-shoukry-israel-palestinians.html...Reports In the first such high-level visit in nine years Egypt’s foreign minister met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem to help rejuvenate the moribund Israel – Palestinian peace process. Egypt supports the Arab Peace Initiative and the French initiative. Netanyahu rejects both.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one item today:
- ...World Briefing on A4 Israel: Egyptian envoy pays a rare visit; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-egypt-20160710-snap-story.html...Reports Egyptian Foreign Minister met with Netanyahu in Jerusalem to promote a two-state solution. Said the military occupation of the West Bank is “neither stable nor sustainable.” [Article expanded on web.]
NY Times: nothing today:
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The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...letter on A8 Anti-BDS bills go too far; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-bds-la-city-council-20160712-snap-story.html...Says LA City Councilmen should stand with the oppressed and those who fight oppressing, and they should not support anti-BDS bill and Israel that stifle our 1st amendment rights.
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israel Tightens Rules for Human Rights Groups That Rely on Foreign Money; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/world/middleeast/israel-rights-groups-foreign-funding.html ...Reports in a victory for conservatives, Israeli lawmakers passed a measure requiring Israeli organizations financed over 50% by foreign governments or political organizations to disclose that fact in all their activities. Seems law applies to Human Rights organizations, but not right-wing groups.
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[for NY Times] RE:... “Israel Tightens Rules for Human Rights Groups That Rely on Foreign Money” July 12Israel continues its march away from democracy towards a fascist state. This time passing a law that stigmatizes human rights groups.
As Israel moves away from democracy it deepens the rift with the United States. At some point American politicians will no longer be able to claim that Israel and the United States share values. Then finally, the United States will stand against oppression and call Israel to account for its 50-year occupation of Palestine.
PatnJeff Warner
- ...Article on A3 Gazans get lifesaving medical care in Turkey; http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-turkey-gaza-aid-snap-story.html...Profiles Gazans who get medical treatment in Turkey for injuries suffered in Gaza bombardment of 2014. Can’t get help in Gaza due to lack of medical facilities.
- Jerusalem Journal...For Palestinians, Raising Arabian Horses Is ‘the Hobby of the Poor’; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/world/middleeast/for-palestinians-raising-arabian-horses-is-the-hobby-of-the-poor.html ...Profiles Palestinians in the West Bank who raise horses for show and riding. Stables dot villages and towns of every size, and many families share tiny, cramped homes raise their own horses.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: two item today:
- ...Article on Wednesday’s A4 Palestinian prisoners father test-tube babies; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-prisoner-ivf-snap-story.html...Reports Palestinians in Israeli prisons smuggle sperm out tp their wives who get pregnant by IVF.
- ...Article on Friday’s web An Israeli soldier’s court-martiald for killing a Palestinian assailant has transfixed the nation; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-court-martial-20160720-snap-story.html...Reports the court-martial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter in the death of a Palestinian assailant in March, has transfixed much of the nation, fueling a wider debate on how to handle a recent wave of violence. Almost forgotten in the discussion is that the Palestinian killed was already wounded and laying on the ground. B’Tselem says the current policy is “shoot to kill.”
NY Times: two items today:
- ...Israeli Defense Minister Compares Beloved Palestinian Poet to Hitler; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/world/middleeast/avigdor-lieberman-compares-mahmoud-darwish-to-hitler.html ...Reports Avigdor Lieberman, an ultranationalist, said that Army Radio should not have aired a show about Mahmoud Darwish, who is considered the Palestinians’ national poet. Reviews complexity of Israel’s relation with Darwish’s work.
- From Wednesday...Israeli Parliament Passes Law Enabling Ouster of Legislators; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/world/middleeast/israel-knesset-zoabi-ngos-parliament-ouster-arab-palestinian.html ...Reports The Israeli Parliament passed contentious legislation that would allow for the suspension or ouster of legislators accused of racial incitement or supporting armed struggle against Israel. Critics have called the law discriminatory because it was intended to target Arab legislators and harmed democratic principles like freedom of expression.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: two item today:
- ...Article on Saturday’s A3 and Friday’s web Soldier court-martial has Israel transfixed; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-court-martial-20160720-snap-story.html...Reports the court-martial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter in the death of a Palestinian assailant in March, has transfixed much of the nation, fueling a wider debate on how to handle a recent wave of violence. Almost forgotten in the discussion is that the Palestinian killed was already wounded and laying on the ground. Yet much of Israel;I public supports soldier. B’Tselem says the current policy is “shoot to kill.”
- ...Article on A3 Israeli medic testifies about fatal shooting; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-court-martial-20160724-snap-story.html...Reports Israeli soldier who shot and killed a Palestinian wounded on the ground testifies in his trial that he killed the Palestinian to save Israeli lives after Palestinian moved his arm and head.
NY Times: two items today:
- ...Israeli Soldier Who Shot Wounded Palestinian Criticizes Superiors; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/world/middleeast/israeli-soldier-who-shot-wounded-palestinian-criticizes-superiors-moshe-yaalon.html ...Reports Sgt. Elor Azaria, who killed a Palestinian attacker who his commander said posed no further danger, insisted he saw a “real and immediate danger.” Says his commander called him crazy for shooting wounded Palestinian.
- Alon Tal Op-Ed...Israel’s Looming Demographic Crisis; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/opinion/israels-looming-demographic-crisis.html ...Says Israel’s demographic threat is from Jewish overpopulation that undermines the environment and the social safety net. But a debate over overpopulation is not part of the Israeli agenda. Warns things will get worse as Jewish high birth rates are projected to continue.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one item today:
- ...Article on web Here’s why Netanyahu is apologizing to Israel’s Arab citizens; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-netanyahu-arabs-20160726-snap-story.html...Reports in the closing hours of Israel’s election last year, Benjamin Netanyahu rallied his supplist-leorters with a video warning that “droves” of Arab citizens were being bused to the polls to unseat his right-wing government. Now, about 16 months later, the prime minister has released a surprise on-camera apology in what amounts to an embrace of Israel’s 20% minority population.
NY Times: nothing today:
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NY Times: one. items today:
- ...U.S. Rebukes Israel Over New Settlement Activity in East Jerusalem; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/world/middleeast/israel-east-jerusalem.html...Reports The State Department sharply criticized Israel to steps to build more than 300 housing units in East Jerusalem, denouncing them as “corrosive to the cause of peace.” Just one month ago the quartet criticized Israel for building settlements in the West Bank.
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[for NY Times] RE:...”U.S. Rebukes Israel Over New Settlement Activity in East Jerusalem” July 25Good words, but words
are not
enough. It is time for
the United States
to stop shielding Israel from accountability in the United
Nations.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: nothing today:
NY Times: one. items today:
Ruth Margalit Op-Ed...How Benjamin Netanyahu Is Crushing Israel’s Free Press; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/how-benjamin-netanyahu-is-crushing-israels-free-press.html ...Reports Freedom House, an American democracy advocacy organization, downgraded Israel’s freedom of the press ranking from “free” to “partly free.”. Article describes how in the last year and a half, Netanyahu has sought to turn Israeli media into his own private empire, including by undermining the Supreme Court and NGOs.
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[for NY Times] RE:...” How Benjamin Netanyahu Is Crushing Israel’s Free Press” July 25 Op-Ed
The United States does not have a perfect democracy. But the United States continually strives to improve its democracy. But Israel is different in that its leaders actively undermine its democracy. The Freedom House report is just another example.
But none of this seems to matter to American politicians and media that insist that the U.S. and Israel share values, and that justifies continued American support of Israel’s march away from democracy It is time for the U.S. to open its eyes to Israel’s true nature, and to stop protecting Israel from accountability at the United Nations.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: no item today:
- Tuesday letter...Benjamin Netanyahu’s Spokesman, on Press Freedom in Israel; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/opinion/benjamin-netanyahus-spokesman-on-press-freedom-in-israel.html...Responds to Margalit’s Op-Ed that Netanyahu is limiting press freedom, and asserts that Netanyahu is actually improving press freedom and diversity.
- ...Israel Charges Palestinian Employee of Aid Group With Funneling Funds to Hamas; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/middleeast/world-vision-hamas.html ...Reports Mohammad El Halabi, manager of the Christian charity World Vision’s Gaza branch, was said to have moved about $43 million over the past six years to Hamas’ military wing. Assertion is that El Halabi was a Hamas mole and World Vision did not know of his activities.
- .Shmuel Rosner..How Israel’s Modern Orthodox Jews Came Out of the Closet; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/opinion/how-israels-modern-orthodox-jews-came-out-of-the-closet.html ...Says A modern-Orthodox rabbi in Israel thought he was taking a stand against L.G.B.T. rights. But his condemnation ended up forcing the modern-Orthodox community to draw a line against rabbinical small-mindedness. Rosner wrote, “the rabbinical establishment is in distress. The military is educating its soldiers to be tolerant of the L.G.B.T. community. The legal system is ruling in favor of equal rights for L.G.B.T. couples. And when a rabbi decides to cry foul, and remind his listeners that Jewish law has a clear-cut view against homosexuality, he is portrayed as a bigot and gets harsh condemnations from almost every quarter.”
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: no item today:
- ...Fatah Makes Incendiary Facebook Claim of Killing 11,000 Israelis; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/middleeast/fatah-makes-incendiary-facebook-claim-of-killing-11000-israelis.html ...Reports an effort to appeal to Palestinians ahead of hotly contested elections. Fatah, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas, listed one of its main achievements as having “killed 11,000 Israelis.” This incendiary claim, and others, are in one of Fatah’s official Arabic Facebook pages.
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LA Times: one item today:
- ...Article on A3 ‘Suicide by soldier’ in West Bank; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-palestine-suicide-soldier-snap-story.html...Reports claim by some Palestinians that up to 20% of the Palestinians killed by soldiers in attempted attacks against soldiers, were in fact not an attack against soldiers but rather a type of suicide driven by personal circumstances and not political reasons.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: nothing today:
- Letter, Monday...Israel and Free Press Debated; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/opinion/israel-and-free-press-debated.html ... An Israeli says Ruth Margalit’s Op-Ed argument that PM Netanyahu is trying to control the country’s news media is wrong.
- ...Israel Accuses U.N. Worker of Aiding Hamas in Gaza; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/world/middleeast/israel-accuses-un-worker-of-aiding-hamas-in-gaza.html ...Reports Israeli Prosecutors say Waheed Al Bursh, a Palestinian U.N. Development Program engineer, used his position to provide material assistance to the Islamist group and its military wing by diverting a few trucks loaded with building materials. This follows a similar accusation against a World Vision employee last week.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A3 2 years after Gaza war, still no homes; no url...Reports 75,000 Gazans are still displaced after their homes were destroyed in the 2014 Gaza war. There are several causes for the delay in rebuilding including lack of funds, the Israeli and Egyptian blockade, and the U.N. and Israeli rules on distribution of materials.
NY Times: no. items today:
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[for LA
Times] RE: “2
years after Gaza war, still no homes” Aug.
10
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: nothing today:
- ...No, Google Says, It Did Not Delete ‘Palestine’ From Its Maps; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/world/middleeast/google-palestine.html ...Reports That the social media storm of outrage about the removal of a “Palestine” label from Google Maps was based on a false premise. Google said “there has never been a ‘Palestine’ label on Google Maps, however we discovered a bug that removed the labels for ‘West Bank’ and ‘Gaza Strip’,” and the bug is being fixed. Interesting discussion of how sometimes false rumors spread and cannot be stopped by the truth.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: nothing today:
- ...Ben-Gurion on Israel, Peace and Back Pain: A Lost Interview Is Brought to Life; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-ben-gurion-interview.html ...Reports In a recently rediscovered 6-hour interview, David Ben-Gurion, in 1968 at 82 and five years out of office, spoke of state-building and the biblical prophets that guided him; the security imperative of his young nation and Israel’s quest for spiritual and moral superiority; his battle with lower back pain and his interest in Buddhism. Condensed with other material into a 55-minute film titled “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue.”
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times: one item today:
- ...National Briefing, Friday on A12 Israeli spy’s parole affirmed; no url...Reports Federal judge refuses to ease Jonathan Pollard’s parole restrictions.
- Seven letters...A Mideast Rift in College; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/sunday/a-mideast-rift-in-college.html...1st from president of Yeshiva Univ. says BDS condemns Israel to delegitimize it, and must be “confronted.” 2nd from Tuffs student says to fight injustices by Israel he was rejected by Hillel and accepted by SJP. 3rd from Israeli Consulate condemns SJP and JVP for attempting to censor speech o campuses. 4th from JStreetU leader at Tuffs says It is possible to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian by supporting 2-states. 5th by Rebecca Vilkomerson says advocacy for Palestinian rights is not at odds with Jewish identity, just follow SJP and JVP in supporting BDS. 6th by Open Hillel founder complains that Hillel International disallows open discussion, and that must change. 7th from Am. Jewish Comm. says SJP hurts the Palestinian cause by refusing to accept existence of Israel.
PatnJeff Warner
My letter published in Tuesday’s LA Times. Full text below.
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Five letters on A8 in
Tuesday paper
Still
displaced;
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-gaza-20160816-snap-story.html ...Respond to Aug. 10 article about the lack of
rebuilding in
Gaza. First 5 of the
letters all blame
Hamas for diverting limited concrete for war and leader’s
homes. Fifth letter,
mine (full text below), calls
for Israel to end Siege.
NY Times: one. items today:
- Carol Giacomo extracted from interview with Dani Dayan...Israel’s New Man in New York; http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/israels-new-man-in-new-york.. . Dani Dayan, Israel’s new consul general in New York and former settler leader, discusses his differences with Benjamin Netanyahu, his work with United States groups, and the 2016 election.
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Jeff Warner
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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-gaza-20160816-snap-story.html
One simple step will expedite the rebuilding in Gaza that has unacceptably left 75,000 people homeless since the 2014 war – Israel must end the blockade of Gaza. As the occupying power, Israel has a responsibility to maintain decent living standards for the almost 2 million people living in Gaza.
Rather than fulfil that duty, Israel maintains a siege of the Gaza strip that not only delays rebuilding, but continues to destroy the economy and social structure in the Gaza Strip.
Jeff Warner, Los Angeles
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Front-page article Israel fight grows on U.S. campuses; http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-uc-israel-palestinian-adv-snap-story.html ...Reports on a multi-million dollar campaign of propaganda aimed to discredit the BDS movement among college students, especially aimed at UC campuses. Largely supported by Sheldon Adelson. The campaign wants to stop “Jew hatred” by instigating hate o f pro-Palestinian activists.
NY Times: no. items today:
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Jeff Warner
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[for LA Times] RE: “Israel fight grows on U.S. campuses” Aug. 21
Israel and pro-Israel American Jews fear delegitimization of Israel because Israel oppresses Palestinians. To counter that, they spend tens of millions of dollars to propagandize American college students into accepting Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, and harass and target student leaders fighting for equality.
Wouldn’t it be easier, safer, and more in-line with Jewish teaching, for Israel to simply recognize the humanity of Palestinians, end the occupation, and support the 1947 U.N. decision to enable a Palestinian state alongside Israel?
PatnJeff Warner
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LA Times: one. items today:
- ...AP article on A4 Boost for Jewish settlers amid calls for peace; no url...Reports 51% of Palestinians and 59% of Israelis (53% of Jewish Israelis) still favor a 2-state solution. The numbers are 34% and 20% favor a democratic single state. But Israel is proceeding with plans for expanded settlements, including one in Hebron.
NY Times: no. items today:
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[for LA Times] RE: “Boost for Jewish settlers amid calls for peace” Aug. 23
Israel and the United States display their hypocrisy - again. Israel says its wants peace, yet it continues to undermine peace by expanding settlements and oppressing Palestinians. Israel’s latest move is to expand settlements on Palestinian land. And not just any settlement, but in Hebron, where the existing settlements are populated by some of the most extreme nationalist, making Hebron a continual locus for conflict.The United States hypocrisy comes from its ever deeper support for Israel, especially when it shields Israel from any accountability in the United Nations and other international bodies. Yet the U.S. says it supports a two-state solution. But by continuing to shield Israel from accountability, the U.S. enables Israel’s denial of Palestinians rights.
As an American, I call
on President
Obama to stop shielding Israel at the U.N. Security Council
until Israel makes
serious moves towards peace. And
as a
Jewish American, I call on Israel to stop using me as an excuse
for its occupation.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Three letters on A12 ‘Jew haters’? Hardly; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-israel-colleges-activism-sheldon-adelson-20160825-snap-story.html...Respond to article about suppression of pro-Palestinian speech. 1st says the Palestinian side of the story must be told. 2nd says anti-Semitism justifies suppression of pro-Palestinian speech. 3rd says there should be constructive discussion on how to achieve a two-state solution.
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israel Clears Troops in Airstrike Near School in 2014 Gaza War; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-war.html ...Reports The military found no wrongdoing in the airstrike, which killed 10 civilians near a United Nations school. The missile targeted “militants” on a motorcycle who turned toward the school after the missile was fired. Details six other cases of alleged soldier misconduct during the war, each of which Israel military investigation found were justified.
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Jeff Warner
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[for NY Times] RE:...” Israel Clears Troops in Airstrike Near School in 2014 Gaza War” Aug. 25The real criminals are not the troops just doing their job, but Israeli military and civilian leaders who ordered the massive bombardment of the Gaza Strip with 1.9 million people trapped with no place to run. Their criminality is responsible for over 2,200 people killed (2/3rds civilians), 8,000 homes destroyed, at least 250 businesses and workshops destroyed, and critical civilian infrastructure destroyed.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: no. items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- NY Times editorial ...Can Israel and Arab States Be Friends?; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/opinion/sunday/can-israel-and-the-arab-states-be-friends.html ...Says relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia (based antipathy toward Iran) and Israel and Egypt are improving. Even without formal diplomatic recognition, the better relations could put the chaotic Middle East on a more positive course. But the Palestinians could be left out leaving the Israel-Palestinian dispute to fester.
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The Times is correct to worry about Israel improving relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt may allow the Israel-Palestine issue to fester. Ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia and Egypt are based on militarism (Saudi Araba over Iran and Egypt over ISIS in the Sinai), and that suits Israel whose entire society and government is centered on its army. In contrast, an agreement with the Palestinians will involve peace. And peace seems the last thing that Israel is interested in.
As an American and a world citizen I recognize that United States military aid to Israel, and protection from accountability in the U.N., are what enables Israel to continue its 49-year occupation of Palestine and to shun peace. I am sad to conclude that that will not change with either a President Clinton or Trump.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times:no
items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Israeli Military Investigating Soldier’s Killing of Unarmed Palestinian; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/middleeast/israeli-military-investigating-soldiers-killing-of-unarmed-palestinian.html ...Reports The Israeli military said that a soldier was under investigation for the death of Iyad Hamed, an unarmed Palestinian, man who was shot in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The shooting has fed a stormy debate over open-fire regulations and the use of force by Israeli troops against Palestinians.
PatnJeff Warner
The following articles, columns, editorials, and/or letters are published in today’s LA Times (print + web) or NY Times (web only). One or more provide an opportunity to write a letter to the editor to enunciate our message of peace.
LA Times: one. items today:
- ...Article on A4 Israel, U.N. exchange barbs; http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-israel-settlements-un-20160830-snap-story.html...Reports U.N. Middle East envoy reported to the Security Council that settlements are an obstacle to peace, citing a surge in settlements and house demolitions. Quartet said similar things last month. Israeli spokesman said envoy’s report was “distorting history and international law.” Said the barrier to peace is the Palestinian refusal to acknowledge the Jews have deep roots in the land.
NY Times: three. items today:
- ...Aid Group’s Gaza Manager Denies Diverting Funds to Hamas, Is Arraigned; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/world/middleeast/world-vision-gaza-hamas-israel.html ...Reports In a closed Israeli judicial hearing, Mohammad El Halabi, of World Vision’s Gaza branch, denied Israel’s charges that he had funneled $43 million to Hamas. Head of World Vision complains that a closed hearing is not legitimate, and even she would not see the evidence.
- ...Israel Quietly Legalizes Pirate Outposts in the West Bank; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-outposts-mitzpe-danny.html ...Reports about 100 unauthorized Jewish settlements (outposts) dot hilltops in the West Bank. Israel has retroactively legalized, or is in the process of legalizing, about 35 of them. Anti-settlement groups and Palestinians say retroactively legalizing outposts is an Israeli unilateral effort to change the region’s map and thus the status quo.
- ...Court Throws Out $655.5 Million Terrorism Verdict Against Palestinian Groups; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/nyregion/appeals-court-terror-verdict-plo-palestinian-authority.html ...Reports A federal appeals court in New York reversed a ruling under the terrorism law that found the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization liable for supporting attacks in Israel that killed Americans. The appeals court said the Federal court did not have authority to hear the case.
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[for LA Times] RE: “Israel, U.N. exchange barbs” Aug. 31
Will the Israeli government ever recognize the reality that their entire purpose in the West Bank is to illegally expand Israel while occupying Palestine and denying Palestinians human, civic, and economic rights? Clearly neither a Quartet report nor a U.N. envoy’s assessment can help Israel.
As a Jewish American I recognize that its United States unblinking financial, military, and diplomatic support of Israel that enables Israel to commit those crimes, crimes documented by B’Tselem and other Israeli and international human rights organizations.
I call on President
Obama to stop
that support until Israel finds a way to make [peace with
Palestine.
PatnJeff Warner
LA Times:no
items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Palestinians Clash With Own Security Forces as Elections Stir Deep Unease; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/world/middleeast/palestinians-clash-with-own-security-forces-as-elections-stir-deep-unease.html ...Reports on Palestinian politics in advance of municipal elections. Profiles Palestinian security abuse of those arrested. There is discontent with all streams of Palestinian political parties, and not much hope that the election will improve the situation.
PatnJeff Warner
LA
Times:no
items today:
NY Times: two. items today:
- ...Israel Seeking Police Recruits: Eager, and Arab; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/world/middleeast/israeli-police-recruiting-arabs-to-join-the-force-not-resist-it.html ...Reports An initiative to increase diversity in the national force is seen as an effort to ease deep-rooted tension between officers and Arab citizens
- Letter West Bank Settlements; http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/west-bank-settlements.html...Americans for Peace Now officials say extremist Jewish settlers “work hand-in-glove with government to expand settlements,” that “are the chief physical obstacle to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
PatnJeff Warner
LA
Times:no
items today:
NY Times: one. items today:
- ...Editorial on A10 Governor, veto these bills; http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-governor-veto-20160902-snap-story.html...Tells Gov. Brown to veto AB-2844 because anti-discrimination laws already exist. Says AB-2844 is “essentially a symbolic gesture” in opposition to BDS that should not be part of California law. Brown has about 1,000 bills on his desk. Editorial highlights five others that Brown should veto, and notes there are many more that probably also should be vetoed.
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[for LA Times] RE: “Governor, veto these bills” Sept. 6 Editorial
The Times
is correct that a
significant number of the ~1,000 bills on Governor
Brown’s desk should be
vetoed. And the
Times is correct in pointing to AB-2844 as
a bill that should be
vetoed. The
Times says AB-2844 is “essentially
a symbolic gesture” in opposition to the Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions
movement. That
is correct, but AB-2844 is
worse – its intent is to stifle speech that may be
critical of the Israeli
government policy of occupation, and is thus an
underhanded way to deprive
citizens of their First Amendment right to free speech.