Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
Ten years ago, in late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab world experienced a series of convulsions that tore apart the Middle East as we knew it. Starting in Tunisia, where a young fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest corruption and police abuse, angry demonstrations spread throughout the region. Some of the world’s longest-ruling leaders were toppled within months. There was a sense of optimism, that the long-suffering citizens of Arab nations were finally rising up to demand basic human rights and dignity in secular, youth-led popular uprisings.
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Apr. 14, 2021 6:15 AM
Most of the people who brought us an unnecessary, preventable war in the Gaza Strip in summer 2014, 51 days with no victory, are also involved in what’s happening today – a steady, dangerous slide toward the possibility of an even worse military conflict with Iran.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz and Aviv Kochavi were all there that wretched summer, though the latter two have since been promoted – respectively, from chief of staff to defense minister and from head of Military Intelligence to chief of staff. Then-Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is no longer in the picture.
The “Jerusalem Post” newspaper said that high-ranking Israeli officials led by the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu may face possible arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The newspaper mentioned that among those threatened with arrest as part of the investigation into war crimes committed in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and […].
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Feb. 19, 2021
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and retired general Amos Gilead have a long history together. Gilead was Barak’s aide when Barak headed Military Intelligence, and when Barak headed the whole Israel Defense forces, he appointed Gilead IDF spokesman. When Barak was elected prime minister, Gilead headed Military Intelligence’s research division.
When Barak served as defense minister under Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilead filled a key position at the ministry: director of policy and political-military affairs. And he was the strategy chief for regional and international affairs, as well as the defense establishment’s foreign relations.
Sanctions.
“BDS” may be the three peaceful actions which can stop Israeli crimes against humanity in Zionist-occupied Palestine. That, at least, is what an internationally growing number of people believe. The BDS movement seeks to isolate the racist, apartheid, genocidal state of Israel on three fronts: academic, cultural and economic.
The academic boycott, for example, includes the likes of famous physicist Stephen Hawking, and also the 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA). And now, in early January 2014, a group of academics at the annual meeting of the 28,000-member Modern Language Association (MLA) has sought to join the burgeoning human rights movement.