Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Israel'
The Paralyzing Rage Of Sexual Harassment
by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972, Israel - It’s simple sexual harassment – not a uniquely Israeli problem. One of the top television news personalities in the country, Emmanuel Rosen, has been accused by a large number of women of harassment over...
Imprisoned, Tortured, Killed: Human Trafficking Thrives on Sinai Peninsula
by Nicola Abé in North Sinai, Der Spiegel, Germany - The Sinai Peninsula has become a prison and grave for thousands of African refugees. They are kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured to death even after their families have paid hefty ransoms....
How Israel Legitimises Torturing Palestinians to Death
by Charlotte Silver, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Israel's policy of torture has left many dead, and rationalising its failure to comply with the most basic requirement of recording interrogations, the State maintains that it is in the interest of "national...
Hamas Says Gaza Conflict, U.N. Recognition Go Together
by Samia Nakhoul, Daily Star, Lebanon - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said the de facto recognition of a sovereign Palestinian state won by his rival Mahmoud Abbas should be seen alongside Gaza's latest conflict with Israel as a single, bold...
I Didn’t Come Back to Jerusalem To Be in a War
by Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, USA - What it’s like to be in Israel as the conflict escalates....
Israel, Gaza and beyond
by Beril Dedeoglu, Today's Zaman, Turkey - In order to better understand Israel’s foreign policy, one has to live in Israel or at least be very well informed about this country’s domestic political balance....
Notes from Gaza
by Sarah Mousa, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The current assault on Gaza is reminiscent of what happened nearly four years ago, but Gazans continue on....
Stripped of My Clothes, My Father, but Not of My Right to Return
by Asma Jaber, Al Jazeera, Qatar - My latest attempt to return to my father, carrying memories of his lost home with me, was a devastating lesson in the indignities of exile and the fragility of life....
Netanyahu and the US Presidential Election
by Susan Hattis Rolef, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Israel-US relations are already in need of some serious repair, and let us just hope that we are not in a situation of “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men...
Israeli Women Fight Orthodox Curbs
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, IPS, Italy - After filing the first-ever class-action lawsuit on the issue of gender segregation in Israel, a local religious women’s rights group says it hopes to protect the rights of women in the public sphere of...
The Rachel Corrie Legacy
by Honna Veerkamp, WINGS, Canada - An Israeli court has thrown out the lawsuit by Rachel Corrie's parents, claiming wrongful death bu an Israeli bulldozer. But her influence on the solidarity movement continues - and now Egypt has effectively ended...
The Threat of a Military Conflict with Iran Is Real
by Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Russia - A war against Iran is inevitable and it is likely to break out sometime in the first half of 2013, says Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Institute of the Middle East....
Occupied Palestine: Making the Abnormal Normal
by Georgina Reeves, The Palestine Chronicle, USA - Minor inconveniences can mean major delays in occupied Palestine, where daily life is anything but normal....
Israel Walls Itself In
by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, IPS, Italy - As Israel continues to build walls and fences along virtually each of its borders, analysts say the country’s isolationist policies and unwillingness to deal with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours through anything other...
Gay Pride Is Kosher in Ra’anana, as Long as It Stays ‘Modest'?
by Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz, Israel - Try as one might to freeze time, the winds of change will blow anyway and some circumstances force a politician to stand up and show us what they are made of....
Israeli Politics Are Proving More Absurd Than Any Reality TV Show
by Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz, Israel - Events like the last-minute Kadima-Likud deal are a slap in the face, reminding Israeli citizens that they aren’t watching 'American Idol' – they're watching 'Survivor.'...
When Women Speak Out on the Core Issue
by Ravit Hecht, Haaretz, Israel - Why do female politicians remain mum about Iran?...
Walk This Way
by Vered Lee, Haaretz, Israel - The pedestrian is the human heart of the city, and his movement is the strongest possible expression of the link between the environment and the community....
Where Is the ‘Inevitable’ Bedouin Intifada Israel Guaranteed?
by Mya Guarnieri, +972, Israel - In 2004, Israeli officials were up in arms about an impending Bedouin Intifada. But the Bedouin didn’t rebel and now, despite plans to expel tens of thousands of them from their homes in the...
Israel's 'Black Widows'
by Irit Rosenblum, Haaretz, Israel - Though in all likelihood, the "fatal wife" will be absolved of suspicions against her and will be allowed to wed again, the fact that the Rabbinate has the sole discretion to arbitrarily deny people...
Otherwise Occupied / Friendly Fire?
by Amira Hass, Haaretz, Israel - Who will protect Gaza citizens from their supposed defenders - the government and armed resistance groups?...
Pressure Israel, not Iran
by Marjorie Cohn, Marjorie Cohn, USA - The same voices who brought us the illegal, tragic, and ill-advised war with Iraq will continue to try to dominate the national conversation with battle cries against Iran....
The Growing Influence of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
by Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Der Spiegel, Germany - Veiled women, radical rabbis and gender segregation: Israel is facing a rise in the influence of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Their efforts to impose a strictly conservative worldview have led to growing tensions with...
A Glimpse into the Life of an Israeli-Palestinian Couple
by Amira Hass, Haaretz, Israel - What if Israel goes back to barring Israelis from Palestinian Authority territory? What if the trend of anti-Arab legislation continues and the state decides to strip their children, or them, of their citizenship?...
It’s Time for the U.N. To Admit Palestine
by Katy Waldman, Slate, USA - After an hour and a half of trying to soften an increasingly furious—and personal— debate over Palestinian membership in the United Nations on Tuesday, moderator John Donvan gave up and wearily asked his panelists...
Some Comfort Fails to End Agony
by Eva Bartlett, IPS, Italy - Yousef walks barefoot into a children's room with four beds and points to a snoopy-blanketed bed by the window. "That's where I sleep," he says. A red remote-controlled toy racecar sits atop a new...
Where Have All the Women Gone in Jerusalem?
by Tamar Rotem, Ha'aretz, Israel - Advertisers fold to ultra-Orthodox pressure against 'obscene' poster campaigns....
The Syria Imperative And Israel
by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, Countercurrents, India - The Assad regime in Syria is facing increased scrutiny for its handling of demonstrators. The Syrian opposition has asked for arms and NATO intervention similar to what was witnessed in Libya . Washington Hawks...
The Politics behind the Prisoner Swap
by Phyllis Bennis, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The deal has been discussed since Shalit was captured in 2006, now the time has come for 1028 families to be reunited....
Erekat Slams Israeli Plans for New East Jerusalem Neighborhood
by Melanie Lidman, Jerusalem Post, Israel - The Palestinian Authority on Friday slammed Israeli plans to build more than 2,500 apartments in the new Jerusalem neighborhood of Givat Hamatos, over the 1967 Green Line....
Why Are Israelis Moving to Germany?
by Adi Hagin, Haaretz, Israel - Thousands of Israelis, among them many artists, have chosen to live in Berlin because of its relaxed atmosphere and relatively low cost of living, even if it means living in a country with a...
The Irvine 11: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
by Nora Barrows Friedman, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The sentencing of the Irvine 11 demonstrates how voicing Palestinian solidarity is becoming more risky for activists....
Turkey: Problematic Approach to Heron UAVs
by Lale Kemal, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Ankara has long been dependent on US military technology but faced embargoes imposed by the US Congress as a result of Turkey’s poor human rights record as well as its strained ties with...
Canada and 9/11 Anniversary
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - Although Americans have been overshadowed by the fallout of 9/11, the fact is that nothing is the same for Pakistanis either, whether at home or abroad. In some places, Muslims are actually experiencing racial...
Language Becomes a Political Weapon in Israel
by Mya Guarnieri, Al Jazeera, Qatar - A plan to downgrade Arabic's status as an official language underscores broader tensions within Israel....
Dear Protesters for 'Social Justice'
by Diana Kimmerling, Ha'aretz, Israel - How could it be that you have nothing to say when the country is sinking into anti-democratic laws, but you have so much to shout about when it comes to money?...
Arab Youth and Social Protest in Israel
by Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka, Challenge, Israel - This new era will bury the fanatical nationalism and extremism of Arabs in Israel, just as it will bury Jewish fanatical nationalism....
Boats Run Short of Sea to Sail On
by Eva Bartlett, IPS, Italy - "My father was a boat-builder and I learned from him, worked on boats all my life. Now there's no work at all." Abu Fayez Bakr, 64, is one of two boat-builders in the Gaza...
Red Sea Reboot
by Nirit Anderman, Ha'aretz, Israel - Four years after a brutal attack left him silent and withdrawn, a young man has undergone a remarkable recovery, thanks to the dolphins of Eilat − a process recorded in a new documentary....
Cinema Verite
by Neta Alexander, Haaretz, Israel - Inspired by the vision of the late Juliano Mer-Khamis, Oscar-nominated producer James Schamus and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek went to Ramallah to talk to a group of Palestinian filmmakers about cinema’s role in the...
German-Jewish Literary Culture Returns from Exile
by Helen Whittle, Der Spiegel, Germany - German Jews who fled Nazi persecution to what is now Israel took as many books as they could carry. But their descendants, many of whom don't speak German, are left with cratefuls of...
Unraveling the Emperor's Speech to Write Our Own Story
by Susan Abulhawa, The Palestine Chronicle, USA - Who does Obama think he is, presuming to tell Palestinians how they may or may not achieve freedom? What makes Obama think his vision for the future of Palestine, indeed vision for...
West Bank Travel Restrictions Take their Toll on International Aid Budgets
by Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, Israel - European, American taxpayers supporting aid groups paying at least $4.5 million additional expenses a year to overcome Israeli restrictions....
Equality First
by Avirama Golan, Ha'aretz, Israel - On the face of it, compared with many European countries where the financial crisis hit hard, Israel's situation is wonderful, however, the a reality of inequality persists....
BBC: British Broadcasting Censorship
by Porya Mohajer Soltani, Press TV, Iran - Being ‘impartial’ towards Palestine goes for the whole BBC family, even BBC Arabic....
Why Did Obama Really Have to Talk About Israel on Thursday?
by Tulin Daloglu, The Huffington Post, USA - No doubt that the president gives fantastic speeches. The one on Thursday had two parts. In the first half, Obama has so many good points about the change sweeping the Arab world....
The Nakba, in Human Terms
by Sonja Karkar, The Palestine Chronicle, USA - Imagine for a moment yourself, wrenched from all that is familiar and everything you love, hastily running into the unknown grabbing only what you can carry from all the personal effects and...
Academic Freedom under Attack?
by Dahlia Scheindlin, +972, Israel - It has been a troubled year for Israeli academia. The rising nationalist sentiment in the government, legislature and civil society has spilled over into bitter struggles on campuses throughout the country....
Israel's Blockade of Gaza Is Cracking
by Noura Erakat, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Sealing coastal territory undermines past diplomacy - and siege is likely to be broken by post-revolution Egypt....
Israeli Town Rallies Against African Refugees
by Maya Guarnieri, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The shift is most obvious, perhaps, in Eilat, the small city in the south where Anei and several thousand African asylum seekers live. Here, refugees find their children barred from municipal schools. And...
The ‘A-Word’ in Hebron
by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, The Forward, USA - As a life-long, Israel-loving, peace-seeking Zionist, I disdained the hyperbolic label and the facile, incendiary parallels to pre-Mandela South Africa that, for years, have been propagated by Jimmy Carter and some pundits...
Boycotting Israel ... From Within
by Mya Guarnieri, Al Jazeera, Israel - It was Egypt that got me thinking about the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement in a serious way. I was already conducting a quiet targeted boycott of settlement goods - silently reading labels...
A Page from the Dictators’ Handbook
by Frida Ghitis, Miami Heraldd, USA - A few days ago, terrorists butchered five members of a Jewish family, stabbing an 11-year-old boy and then his 4-year-old brother before murdering their parents and their baby sister. In the growing global...
‘Wanted’ on International Aguna Day
by Rachel Levmore, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Rabbinic courts have several tools at their disposal to force a recalcitrant husband to divorce his wife. So why is the problem still so rampant?...
The Arab Revolutions and Palestine
by Dr. Leila Farsakh, Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon - Implications of the protest movements in the Arab world on Palestinian politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict....
'The Ideal Opportunity to Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'
by Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Spiegel, Germany - Israeli historian Tom Segev, 65, discusses the importance of the Arab revolutions for his country, how they could present a chance for Israel to improve its relations with its neighbors and why a...
Israel Peace Treaty Will Likely Be Revised
by Felice Friedson, Jerusalem Post, Israel - The Egypt Daily News editor on Egyptian role in peace process, controlling Gaza border, future of Israel-Egypt relations....
'Leaving Bitterness Behind'
by Danna Harman, Ha'aretz, Israel - As his country begins the countdown to independence, legendary South Sudanese commander Gen. Joseph Lagu talks about days gone by, and of his people's secret ties with Israel. In each country he used a...
Love the Convert
by Tamar Rotem, Ha'aretz, Israel - Alina and Maxim are confronting the rabbinic authorities in court, in the hope that no other converted couple will go through the bitter experience they had....
The "Palestine Papers": An Alternative Analysis for Action
by Nadia Hijab, Al-Shabaka, USA - The Egyptian people’s massive demonstrations against the Mubarak regime, following on from the Tunisian people’s successful despatch of their own dictator, took the limelight away from the Palestine Papers, Al-Jazeera’s 23-26 January 2011 release...
Palestinian Authority Selling Short the Refugees
by Laila Al-Arian, Al Jazeera, Qatar - The PA proposed that only a handful of the nearly six million Palestinian refugees be allowed to return....
Neighborly Relations, Settlement Style
by Yudith Oppenheimer, Ha'aretz, Israel - If right-wing groups can establish settlements in the heart of a Palestinian neighborhood, why can't a Palestinian settle in the core of a Jewish settlement?...
Daring to Demand Their Rights
by Nurit Wurgaft, Ha'aretz, Israel - Many have spoken on behalf of those suffering from mental disorders, but now they are speaking for themselves - and working to ensure that the latest health reform addresses their needs....
Repatriated Sudanese Kids Didn't Get Chance to Say Goodbye
by Dana Weiler-Polak and Or Kashti, Ha'aretz, Israel - Advocates worry about 150 asylum seekers sent back; children's school principal fails to understand why secrecy was necessary....
Head to Head / Ruth Rasnic, Founder of Combat Violence Against Women
by Ofra Edelman, Ha'aretz, Israel - The more women point out men who harass, who don't consider a woman's right to decide what happens with her body, the more women speak about it, the more they will change the atmosphere...
Wings, Prayers and Refugees
by Liat Collins, Jerusalem Post, Israel - For Ethiopian Jews, arriving in the country is only the start of a long journey, as any immigrant can attest....
The Business of Poverty
by Ruth Eglash, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Joseph Gitler has turned a simple food rescue idea into the National Food Bank, centralizing donations and providing meals to thousands of needy people each day....
Want to Weaken Hamas? Open Gaza's Gates
by Amira Hass, Ha'aretz, Israel - Israel's policy, meant to overthrow Hamas by prohibiting production and manufacturing, has failed miserably....
Teaching Gaza to Fish
by Gilah Kahn-Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Adherents of Economic Peace Theory, grad students in Israel believe that Gaza fish farms may be a stepping-stone to prosperity and peace....
Two Men Are Making Israel's Big Decisions
by Nehemia Shtrasler, Ha'aretz, Israel - In our country, the decision is invariably made by two individuals - the prime minister and the defense minister....
Gaza: A Losing Strategy
by Taghreed El-Khodary, Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace, USA - As a new round of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians gets underway at the urging of the United States, the continuation of Washington’s unsuccessful policy toward Gaza risks sabotaging...
Middle East Peace Requires Courage
by Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald, USA - Bravery, courage, are indispensable because no matter how comforting the idea of peace, reaching an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians is a frighteningly dangerous process....
Gaza Left out in the Cold
by Laila El-Haddad, Guardian, UK - The US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and Israeli policy seek to exclude residents of the Gaza Strip....
Jerusalem or Gaza - Where Is it Worse to Be Palestinian?
by Amira Hass, Haaretz, Israel - Is it the isolation and insulation that Israel has imposed on Gaza, or the cynicism with which the decision makers continue to turn the population of East Jerusalem into welfare clients and slum dwellers,...
'This Is My Country'
by Nurit Wurgaft, Haaretz, Israel - As the school year begins, children of foreign workers express their own views - often colored by anxiety - about the success of recent demonstrations against their expulsion....
Jordan’s Uranium and Israel’s Fears
by Heather McRobie, Open Democracy, UK - At a time when other regional ties with Israel are facing setbacks, US and Israeli moves to prevent Jordan from enriching its own uranium may be misguided when Jordan can play positive role...
Israeli Army's Female Recruits Denounce Treatment of Palestinians
by Harriet Sherwood, Guardian, UK - Facebook images of an Israeli servicewoman posing with blindfolded Palestinians have caused a storm. Now two former female conscripts have spoken out about their own experiences....
Why Is all the Outrage One-Sided?
by Frida Ghitis, The Miami Herald, USA - Human-rights activists have turned a blind eye to the systematic assault on individual freedom that has beset the population ever since the Islamic militant movement Hamas took over in 2005....
Legal and Transparent Above All Else
by Naomi Chazan, Ha'aretz, Israel - More than $200 million from private American donors has been transferred over the last decade to Israeli organizations involved in settlement-building, large and small, including several illegal outposts....
Child’s Play: An Arab-Jewish School in Israel
by Alana Sobelman, Jerusalem Post, Israel - How a bilingual Arab-Jewish school in Beersheba stands the southern heat. What the majority of Israel’s population on both sides may call blind ideology in the face of past and present conflicts,...
How to Kill an Economy
by Nicole Johnston, Al Jazeera, Qatar - First close down the borders and refuse to allow any exports out.Then ban the importing of any raw material for factories and businesses. Force the commercial class to rely on expensive underground...
Aboard the Mavi Marmara: An Analysis of Turkish-Israeli Relations
By Medi Nahmiyaz and Nathalie Alyon, Zeek, USA - In the aftermath of the flotilla raid, media outlets were bombarded with reports, as journalists, analysts and first-hand witnesses, who returned to their homes in Turkey, described their versions event. For...
For Turkey, Flotilla Crisis with Israel a Matter of ‘Statehood’
by Fatma Demirelli, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkish-Israeli ties appear headed for a collapse if Israel refuses, as it does now, to offer a formal apology and compensate families of victims....
Pasta Yes, People No
by Sherine Tadros, The Middle East Blog, Israel - In the lead-up to what became Israel's Freedom Flotilla PR disaster, a debate erupted as to the arbitrary and ambiguous nature with which goods are allowed into Gaza....
And What of All the Other Deaths?
by Amira Hass, Haaretz, Israel - The decision to indict Staff Sgt. S. for killing two women during Cast Lead has caused a stir. But his lawyer will rightly ask, 'Why him, and not all the others who killed civilians?'...
Coexistence in Soccer
by Tamar Zmora, Ynet, Israel - Some 350 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian children get together in annual one-day event. 'The mixed game gave me a feeling that we can begin to make peace and enjoy life through football,' one of...
Attack Complicates New Sanctions on Iran
by Barbara Slavin, Asia Times, Hong Kong - Israel's lethal confrontation with pro-Palestinian activists in the Mediterranean is complicating United States strategy toward Iran and undermining the likelihood of a solid sanctions victory at the United Nations....
End Israeli Impunity Now
by Cynthia McKinney, Counter Currents, India - I mourn with my fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel's needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists....
Being Clear About Ambiguity
By Emily B. Landau, Haaretz, Israel - We need to be very clear: When the Egyptians demand that Israel join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - whether at the recently convened NPT Review Conference or at any other international forum -...
Israel's 'Disappeared'
by Nadia Hijab, Middle East Online, UK - The Israeli police ask the courts for a gag order about 100 times a year. Not many countries claiming to be democracies 'disappear' their own citizens and deny them due process....
Egypt's Steel Wall
by Amira Howeidy, Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - The controversial "steel wall" Egypt is building along its border with Gaza was brought to public attention this week after almost disappearing from the news. In a courtroom packed with media representatives...
Arabs Run Out of Patience
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - The Arab Summit was held in Libya earlier this week. Such summits are known for showcasing divisions rather than unity and there are some who feel the Arab League’s international stature...
Israelis Divided over Settlements?
by Mya Guarnieri, Al Jazeera, Qatar - To a people already sharply divided over settlements and their place in the peace process, the feud was seen to mirror Israeli society's inner conflicts....
Desperate Mid-Eastern Mediators
by Maria Appakova, RIA Novosti, Russia - Does it make sense for the Quartet to meet at all? Even the United States was given a flick on the nose by Israel although the United States was considered the most active...
Demolishing Peace
by Heidi Schramm, Al Ahram, Egypt - Israeli house demolitions are the flipside of the coin to illegal settlement building. For peace to have a chance, both must stop....
When in Doubt, Throw 'Em Out
by Nurit Wurgaft, Haaretz, Israel - The government and the Bank of Israel have a plan to rid the country of illegal migrant workers and put Israelis back to work. Unfortunately, it's based on a number of misleading assumptions....
What Is the Lesson to Be Learned from the Holocaust?
by Silvia Cattori, Voltaire Net, Lebanon - Hedy Epstein speaks with a gentle and mild voice about her last travel to Palestine after a moving visit to one of several concentration camps to which her parents had been deported.-...
The European connection
by Naomi Chazan, Jerusalem Post, Israel - The status of Israeli-Palestinian relations depends more on the fate of health reform in the United States than on any other factor - or so conventional wisdom here has it. This approach suits...
Gaza March Puts Spotlight on Civilian Suffering
by Andrea Bord, IPS, Italy - More than 50,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of Israel's...
The Back of the Bus Is for Everybody
by Naomi Chazan, Jerusalem Post, Israel - For close to 10 years Egged, Israel's public transportation company, has been running gender segregated lines not only on buses that go through haredi neighborhoods, but also on intercity routes....
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