Israeli culture is no less toxic than fanatic Islam, and the country's discriminatory attitude toward Mizrahi Jews and Arabs qualifies it for the title of "most racist state," prominent Israeli author Sami Michael said on Monday.

"Israel can claim the title of most racist state in the developed world," Michael, who heads the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, said at the opening of an international conference of the Association for Israel Studies at Haifa University.



West Bank's route 60 a 'road of death' for Palestinian children

Article Author(s): 
Phoebe Greenwood
Media Outlet: 
The Guardian
Date: 
June 26, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jun/26/west-bank-route-60-pale... [15]

Manar Juwali's five-year-old daughter Miri is lying in a drug-induced coma after suffering burns to 75% of her body. The 32-year-old Palestinian woman holds her pregnant belly as she talks about the accident. Four months on, it is still difficult for her – and for all the parents whose children were killed or injured in the inferno on the West Bank's route 60 – to identify who is to blame.



Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 39th time

Media Outlet: 
Ma'an News Agency
Date: 
June 25, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=498678 [16]

NEGEV (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished Bedouin village al-Araqib for the 39th time on Monday, a lawyer said.

Ayman Odeh, who witnessed the demolition, told Ma'an that demolishing people's homes should not be a routine for Israel.

Israel considers al-Araqib and all Bedouin villages in the Negev illegal, while Bedouins say it is their ancestral land.



Israel denies 300 Palestinian couples from uniting

Article Author(s): 
Nasouh Nazzal
Media Outlet: 
Gulf News
Date: 
June 27, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/israel-denies-300-palest... [17]

Ramallah: Hassan Mansour, a resident of the city of Nablus on the West Bank, has dedicated his recent life to bringing his Gazan wife Rinad to live with him, but Israeli authorities have rejected all requests from both husband and wife.

For the past two years the couple have attempted to unite, but have not been granted permission by Israel. They have approached legal and human rights organisations and lodged several complaints with various courts, but have not achieved success.



A Palestinian Village Tries to Protect a Terraced Ancient Wonder of Agriculture

Article Author(s): 
Isabel Kershner
Media Outlet: 
The New York Times
Date: 
June 25, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/world/middleeast/palestinian-village-tries-to-... [18]

BATTIR, West Bank — In this scenic Palestinian [19] village in the West Bank hills near Bethlehem, just south of Jerusalem, a week is said to last eight days, not seven. That is because Battir’s eight extended families take daily turns watering their crops from the natural springs that feed their ancient agricultural terraces, a practice they say has wor



The perils of alienation over Palestine

Article Author(s): 
Ghaith Al-Omari
Media Outlet: 
The Daily Star
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 26, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2012/Jun-26/178190-the-perils-of-... [20]

Critics of the American Task Force on Palestine get one thing right: Palestinian Americans have largely failed to make their voices heard in the mainstream American political and foreign-policy conversation. However, this is the fault of self-styled “pro-Palestinian” advocates who operate in a cult-like echo-chamber and advocate an approach that does considerable harm to the Palestinian cause.



Israel not top priority for new Egyptian president

Article Author(s): 
Adam Gonn
Media Outlet: 
Xinhua
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
June 26, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-06/26/c_123328819.htm [21]

A new era in the Israeli- Egyptian relations has started as the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohamed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election.

While Egypt's former leader Hosni Mubarak, toppled in February 2011, was a secularist and military man, Morsi is a member of the Islamist Brotherhood, which maintains close ties with Hamas, the ruler of the Gaza Strip, a haven of anti-Israel militants.



Settlements threaten American Jews' connection with Israel

Article Author(s): 
Eric Yoffie
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 26, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/settlements-threaten-american-jews-connection-wit... [22]

I spoke a few weeks ago with someone who works with American Jewish organizations in planning programs for their meetings and conventions. “Israel is out,” he told me. The demand for speakers about Israel or from Israel has dropped dramatically over the last decade. American Jews are simply interested in other things.



Back to school: Ben-Gurion for beginners

Article Author(s): 
Tom Segev
Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 22, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/the-makings-of-history/back-to-school-ben-gurion-... [23]

Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar has decided that during the next academic year, schools will concentrate on the leadership of David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin. This week it was reported that principals of Arab schools and several Arab intellectuals are upset about the decision, claiming that it's designed to impose the Zionist narrative on Arab students. But if the teachers know how to deal with the subject matter, Sa'ar could well come to regret his initiative.



Israel Stands to Lose Big In New Global Order

Article Author(s): 
Uri Pasovsky
Media Outlet: 
Calcalist
Article Type: 
Interview
Date: 
June 23, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/01/06/calcalist-interview-israel-stand.... [24]

The world is currently in an interim period, in the midst of a deep change in the global balance of power, and Israel is one of the big losers from this process, argues Ian Bremmer, one of the world's most prominent experts on international relations. "For the first time in seven decades, we are living in a world without global leadership," Bremmer says, describing the situation in the world today as typified by the approach of "every nation for itself."



No Partner For Peace

Article Author(s): 
Bernard Avishai
Media Outlet: 
The Daily Beast
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 25, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/25/no-partner-for-peace.html [25]

Ever since Benjamin Netanyahu’s Bar Ilan speech in 2009, in which he declared himself ready to work toward a demilitarized Palestinian state, his defenders in the United States have justified the collapse of any dialogue with the Palestinians in terms of Israel’s understandable caution. “There is no partner for peace,” we hear again and again, which suggests a number of things at once.



Resolved: This is Not the Road to a Two-State Solution

Article Author(s): 
Elisheva Goldberg
Media Outlet: 
The Daily Beast
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 22, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/22/resolved-this-is-not-the-road-t... [26]

Earlier this week North Carolina’s Democratic Party considered a resolution that sought to end “Israel’s illegal occupation.” And that’s not all it said: It also called for a “nuclear free zone in the Middle East” i.e.



For Gaza, Egypt’s Islamist victory no quick fix

Article Author(s): 
Ibrahim Barzak
Article Author(s): 
Karin Laub
Media Outlet: 
Associated Press
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
June 25, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-25/news/32411073_1_gaza-egypt-hamas-mouin-rab... [27]

Gaza’s euphoria over the election of a Muslim Brotherhood leader as Egypt’s first Islamist president seemed a bit premature as reality set in the Monday.



Jews Must Repudiate All Hatred, Especially From One of Their Own

Article Author(s): 
Brian Levin
Media Outlet: 
The Huffington Post
Article Type: 
Blog
Date: 
June 25, 2012
Source Link(s): 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/jews-must-repudiate-all-h_b_1625925... [28]

Pamela Geller, an outspoken Islamophobe who spins wild hateful conspiracy theories about Muslims, as well as President Obama, had a speaking event entitled "Islamic Jew Hatred: The Root Cause of the Failure to Achieve Peace" cancelled in Los Angeles over the weekend following condemnation by a number of local advocacy groups. The speech sponsored by the Zionist Organization of America was terminated after the venue owner, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, intervened to prevent its tenant from hosting the controversial speaker.

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