One of the questions of the Normblog profile, of which I was the subject a little while back is What do you consider to be the main threat to the future peace and security of the world? I responded like a blogger. The excesses of the international Left that are in part responsive to the […]
Counter Thinking in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
In the contemporary field of education, few concepts are more heavily promoted than that of what is called critical thinking. Very simply, thinking that analyzes itself, that habitually questions suppositions and established intellectual foundations – the warrants on which we base our claims about the world – is critical thinking. Revisionist histories arise from critical […]
All Israel, All the Time
Sometimes it can seem that way. All from The Guardian. First, Iran‘s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today launched an angry attack on “doomed” US-brokered Middle East peace talks and urged the Palestinians to continue armed resistance to Israel. Ahmadinejad used the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran to scorn the Obama administration’s efforts in launching […]
Mind Games: Palestinian “Civil Society”
In “How I Work,” Elder of Ziyon offers a few crucial lessons, about any kind of investigative or reportorial blogging, and about the easy, slimy, self-delusive nature of political misinformation in the electronic age. He tracks a claim by BDS supporters about Palestinian Authority cooperation with BDS activities (which is not the policy of the […]
TULIP: Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine
Founding statement The solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is clear – and has been accepted in principle by both sides. Israeli and Palestinian states living side by side, within secure and recognised borders, is the only workable solution to a conflict that has dragged on for decades. Israel has already taken […]