Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Opinion Unilateral Statehood, The Sequel
In Take 2 of its push for unilateral statehood the Palestinian Authority has announced it will ask the United Nations to upgrade its status from “observer entity” to “observer state.” “After the U.N. vote … Palestine will become a country under occupation. Israel will not be able to say that this is a disputed area,”…
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News Settlements Keep Growing Despite Migron Setback
Three years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he had “no intention of building new settlements,” contractors paid by Israel’s government have constructed a brand-new, exclusively Jewish neighborhood in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. As in the past, the government is portraying it as simply the expansion of an existing settlement. But in this case,…
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Opinion What Would Israel Do Without Mahmoud Abbas?
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called Israel’s President Shimon Peres to offer him Rosh Hashanah greetings. “Happy holiday and a Happy New Year to you and the entire Israeli nation,” Abbas said.. Well, perhaps he meant all of Israel with one exception. At the same time as the phone call from Ramallah came in at…
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Opinion Bibi’s ‘Snub’ Leak Makes Sense to Some
It’s surely an irony of the current public spat between Israel and the White House: An Israeli government that tut-tuts every time important public figures speak their mind on Iran has no qualms about leaking sensitive information when it suits its own perceived interests. Whatever the truth of the current spat between Jerusalem and Washington…
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News Gender Segregation Hits Israel Airwaves
As on talk radio everywhere, the announcers on Israel’s Radio Kol Barama are constantly urging listeners to call in — so long as they’re the correct gender. The most popular religious radio station in Israel, Kol Barama, a biblical phrase that in colloquial Hebrew today means “quality voice,” took to the airwaves three years ago…
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Opinion Rabin’s Killer+Hamas=BFF
The brother of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer has said that the assassin gets along fine with jailed Hamas terrorists and sees “no difference” between himself and the sworn enemies of Israel. Hagai Amir made the comment in his first interview since his release in May. His brother Yigal Amir, Rabin’s killer, is still in prison. For…
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News One Beating Is Front Page, Another Goes Unnoticed
As Jamal Julani recovered in a hospital after being beaten unconscious in an August 17 attack that monopolized Israeli headlines for days, another Palestinian man was beaten unconscious. But this second attack flew under the radar of most Israelis. The first attack dominated not only the media, but also the political discussion, with figures throughout…
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Opinion All Eyes on Migron
Eight years after Israel promised America to start removing outposts and six years since the activist group Peace Now petitioned the courts to compel the government to evacuate the oldest outposts, it looks set to actually happen. Settlers have tried to save the outpost and the government has tried to give it a stay of…
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