rivlin

Palestinians mourn during the funeral march for Palestinian baby Ali Saad Dawabshe, Duma, West Bank, July 31, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Translating a Palestinian family’s grief for Netanyahu
The least I could do was go to the hospital to support the Dawabshe family after their 18-month-old baby was burned alive by Israeli settlers. But before I knew it I became Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Arabic translator. On that terrible Friday morning I found myself finishing up a lecture in Tel Aviv and driving toward…
By Samah Salaime August 6, 2015
Seven Nights 2: Privileged white male
Part two. Following the attack, our night owl returns to Jerusalem in drag for a rally, and walks into an emotional pitfall.   For other nights click here. Someone else was murdered on Thursday, the night of the Jerusalem Pride stabbing. In the northern West Bank village of Duma, a group of hooded men, most likely…
By Yuval Ben-Ami August 6, 2015
Knesset speaker goes One State?
Haaretz reported yesterday  that Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin appears to have gone One State. Rivlin, a veteran and decidedly right-wing member of the Likud, told the Greek Ambassador: “I would rather see Palestinians as citizens of this State than partition the land.” This is quite a crack in the Israeli consensus on the two-state solution…
By Dimi Reider April 30, 2010
Latest
Most Read
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘Dead bodies everywhere’ in Jabalia camp as Israel besieges northern Gaza
  3. Israel’s paradoxical crusade against UNRWA
  4. A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam
  5. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam
  3. After a year of terror in Gaza, our souls feel suspended in time
  4. ‘Dead bodies everywhere’ in Jabalia camp as Israel besieges northern Gaza
  5. The Gaza war is an environmental catastrophe
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. What Israelis don’t want to hear about Iran and Hezbollah
  3. A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam
  4. Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?
  5. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza