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AMERICAN JEWS BELIEVE IN CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION; ISRAEL IS A THEOCRACY by Allan C. Brownfeld ISRAEL CALLS ITSELF a “Jewish” state. Yet for non-Orthodox Jews, who represent the vast majority of the American Jewish community, there is less religious freedom in Israel than anyplace in the Western world. While American Jews believe in separation of […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld EVER SINCE 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As the world now marks 50 years of Israeli control of these territories — and its building of settlements housing approximately 700,000 people, in violation of international law — it appears that, to the current Israeli government, this occupation […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld AT HIS MEETING with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, President Trump abandoned decades of bipartisan U.S. policy and declared that the U.S. would no longer insist on the creation of a Palestinian state as part of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. In Trump’s words, either a […]
Read Moreby Allan Brownfeld PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S selection to be U.S. ambassador to Israel is his own bankruptcy lawyer, who has no diplomatic experience of any kind. David Friedman is a vigorous opponent of the creation of a Palestinian state and rejects the two-state policy as a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, which has been the […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld Discussed in this essay: Apartheid In Palestine, edited by Ghada Ageel. University of Alberta Press, 263 pages, 2016. ISRAEL’S OCCUPATION of the West Bank and East Jerusalem has come under increased scrutiny since December, when the UN Security Council adopted a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement building. The Obama administration chose to […]
Read MoreA GREAT RECRUITING TOOL FOR ISIS by Allan C. Brownfeld DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign, Donald Trump took a strong stand against ISIS, which he pledged to defeat. Now he has announced his choice for ambassador to Israel, his bankruptcy attorney, David Friedman. Friedman has strong ties with Israel’s extreme rightwing and is a vocal opponent […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld WE CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING this year in a time of political turmoil. We have just had a divisive political campaign in which one side called for jailing the candidate they opposed, while the other side, after the election results were clear, said of the winner, “Not my president.” This is a time […]
Read MoreWHY THE PACKAGE IS HARMFUL TO BOTH COUNTRIES by Allan Brownfeld IN SEPTEMBER, the U.S. signed an unprecedented pact with Israel that will provide it with the largest amount of military aid ever awarded to any country — $3.8 billion annually for ten years, with promises of the latest in fighter jets, missile defense systems […]
Read MoreThe Settlers Describes an Israel Precariously Close to Fascism by Allan C. Brownfeld THE CHANCE for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is steadily eroding, members of the Middle East Quartet mediation group said early in July. The Quartet, the sponsor of a peace process that has made almost no progress, […]
Read Moreby Allan C. Brownfeld THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the American Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has attracted almost 20,000 people to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital. Every presidential candidate — except Bernie Sanders — is appearing as speaker, along with Vice President Joe Biden. As a result of AIPAC’s influence (it […]
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