http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/israel/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Sun, 31 May 2009 11:00:56 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4453/israel_and_the_klein_doctrine/ The recent meeting between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted the difficulty of untying the tightly woven knots of hatred, fear and injustice that have brought the Middle East to the precipice of disaster. One need not be a fan of the right-wing Netanyahu (as I assuredly am not) to at least acknowledge the legitimacy of his fear about what a nuclear-armed Iran might mean for the very survival of Israel. Nor is it necessary to support Netanyahu's politics in order to understand his fear of Hamas (an organization fervently committed to Israel's destruction) attaining the ability to target Tel Aviv with an expanded arsenal of missiles. These fears are shared by Israelis from across the… international middle east israel David Sirota Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:00:36 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4880/making_the_illegal_legal/ On August 2, 2009, after cordoning off part of the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families--more than 50 people--from their homes. Jewish settlers immediately moved into the emptied houses. Although Israeli police cited a ruling by the country's Supreme Court to justify the evictions, the Arab families had been living there for more than 50 years. The event attracted the attention of the global media, but it is part of a larger and mostly ignored process. Five months earlier, on March 1, 2009, it was reported that the Israeli government has plans to build more than 70,000 new housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. If implemented, the plans… David Sirota Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:59:57 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5039/should_neve_gordon_be_punished/ On August 20, in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of politics at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba (and a contributor to In These Times), announced his support for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement (BDS) as "the only way that Israel can be saved from itself," by forcing an end to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories beyond the pre-June 1967 borders of Israel. Unlike some in this movement, Dr. Gordon is a firm advocate of separate states for Israel and the Palestinians, believing that a single state encompassing both peoples is a recipe for ongoing conflict and the domination of one people by the other. When asked in 2003 about the possibility of a one-state solution, I… David Sirota