Emily L. Hauser
By Emily L. Hauser
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Opinion Obama’s Peace ‘Pause’ Spells Victory for Bibi
Getty Images There’s a lot of talk about what Barack Obama and John Kerry should, or can, or might, or won’t do in support of the two-state Israeli-Palestinian peace that has been a stated American policy goal for many, many years, following the collapse of talks. On Friday morning, we learned that Obama has suggested…
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Opinion Israel Hires Psychic Uri Geller To Fight Rockets
Israeli psychic Uri Geller poses with a spoon that he bent in 2008 / Haaretz Really, can you blame them? Faced with ongoing rocket fire on the citizens it’s meant to protect, Israel’s military has done the only truly reasonable thing it could do: It hired a spoon-bending mentalist named Uri Geller. More than two…
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Opinion Annexation Was Always Naftali Bennett’s Plan A
Israel’s Naftali Bennett / Getty Images On Wednesday, the multi-portfolioed Naftali Bennett – Israel’s Minister of the Economy, Minister of Religious Services, and Minister of Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs – sent a letter to his Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In that letter, according to Israeli Army Radio, Bennett called for a cabinet meeting “to begin…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Fake Jerusalem Stalls Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu / Getty Images Last week we learned that Israel’s government is advancing plans for another 2,269 settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; 144 are planned for the Jerusalem settlement neighborhood of Har Homa. Discussion surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tends to focus on minutiae, or the broad sweep of an entire…
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Opinion Trading a Palestinian Flag for a Kid’s Freedom?
IDF soldiers order Shadi Sidr to remove his Palestinian flag in Hebron. / YouTube Last week I wrote about that wacky video of a Hebron settler climbing onto a Palestinian’s roof to steal his flag, getting stuck, and calmly telling the Palestinian that the roof, house, and everything within shouting distance actually belonged to the…
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Opinion If a Palestinian Did This, He’d Be Dead
In an imagined juxtaposition, the Hebron settler meets Fiddler on the Roof. / Richard Goldwasser If you’re online and follow news out of Israel, you’ve probably already seen or at least heard of that wild-and-crazy video of a Hebron settler try to steal a Palestinian flag off a Palestinian roof. The guy gets caught on…
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Opinion How ‘De-Arabizing’ Christians Serves Israel
Palestinian Orthodox Christians at the 2013 Palm Sunday procession in Gaza City / Getty Images Last week the Knesset voted to force yet another division onto the Palestinian people. The Palestinians are already divided in a myriad of ways: There are those who live in the Diaspora and are divided there, from America’s well-fed middle…
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Opinion Handing the Western Wall to the Judaizers
Wikipedia Quick, if you’re a settler-dominated government uninterested in sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinian people, what’s a good way to telegraph your position without raising a ruckus? Well, one good way would be to turn over a sizable portion of Judaism’s holiest site to the management of a maximalist settler group — which is precisely…
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