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Israel as a public embarrassment
Are the embarrassments Israel’s diplomats produce truly unintentional? They appear to be part of a deliberate policy, intended to promote our sense of isolation. In an episode of the brilliant Danish television series “Borgen” (“The Castle”), Denmark’s fictitious Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg travels to the imaginary African country of Kharun. Hoping to broker a peace…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
August 6, 2013
WATCH: Attempts to redefine Jewish-Arab refugees
For several months now, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has been promoting an initiative calling for the recognition of Jews from Arab countries as refugees. Is this historical justice, or just another attempt to achieve a political goal through the cynical use of immigrants from Arab countries? Israel Social TV is an independent media NGO working to promote…
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Social TV
March 27, 2013
African refugees must be processed by Israel, not criminalized
When it comes to the issue of refugees, or ‘infiltrators,’ emotions often get the best of those who are defending one term or another. But facts are facts, apples are apples, oranges are oranges. I was reminded of the above when reviewing Oren Ziv’s images of the mother and daughter being arrested at a kindergarten…
By
Roee Ruttenberg
October 29, 2012
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‘I Am a Refugee’: Israel’s splashy new victimhood campaign
Message: The Palestinian refugees have nothing on the ‘Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries.’ As if Israel hasn’t been playing the victim long enough, as if it hasn’t exploited the Six Million to the absolute limit, now comes a new weapon: the “Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries.” This has long been an Israeli answer to the…
By
Larry Derfner
September 11, 2012
UN refugee official: Deportation of Africans unlikely
An optimistic proposal, inspired by an interview with the UN refugee agency’s man in Israel. Last Friday, a couple of days after the south Tel Aviv riot, I interviewed William Tall, representative in Israel of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and came away thinking that there is a way to settle the crisis decently, which I didn’t think there was before.…
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Larry Derfner
May 28, 2012
Is an Israeli cover-up keeping Jonathan Pollard in prison?
The Americans are convinced Pollard – who spied on behalf of Israel in the 1980’s – didn’t act alone, and have made it clear that if Israel gives up the other name(s), he can go free. It’s been a mystery for many years why Jonathan Pollard is still in prison, why U.S. president after president refuses to pardon him. The reason in…
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Larry Derfner
April 11, 2012
Deputy Israeli FM “Addressed Arab Leaders” – REALLY?
The following press release was distributed by the Israeli Government Press Office on Tuesday evening to all foreign press working in Israel: Press Release (Communicated by the Bureau of Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon) Deputy FM Ayalon Addresses Arab leaders at WATEC Conference: “Many times in the history of our region, water was a reason for…
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Roee Ruttenberg
November 15, 2011
The slow unraveling of Hasbara in America
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZDyrjr2Lo[/youtube] Something is happening over at the Jewish Daily Forward, one of the pillars of American Jewish media. In recent days, editors at the Forward, notably Gal Beckerman have gone head to head with one of Israel’s Hasbara masterminds, deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. About two weeks ago, Ayalon was engaged in a heated Twitter…
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Joseph Dana
July 27, 2011
Hasbara videо: The imaginative world of deputy FM Ayalon (UPDATED)
So this is where deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon exists: In a vast white space populated by magically appearing and reappearing figments of his imagination. Why am I not surprised. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGYxLWUKwWo[/youtube] I wonder if the comment about Israel not trying to occupy the Kingdom of Jordan being a “painful compromise” is the official position of…
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Dimi Reider
July 18, 2011
On the morning following the putsch
The Knesset’s decision to investigate NGOs demonstrates the “end of the (democracy) party” The decision taken by the Knesset plenum yesterday, to create a parliamentary investigative committee for “the phenomenon of de-legitimization of the IDF in the world on the part of Israeli organization”, has nothing whatsoever to do with an investigation. Israel has investigative…
By
Yossi Gurvitz
January 6, 2011
T-shirts against absurdity: In support of our striking diplomats
There’s been some noise at the annual convention of Israeli ambassadors in Jerusalem. The entire professional staff of the foreign ministry joined in protest over the financial conditions of diplomats. Instead of arriving to the convention in suits, the ambassadors and their colleagues wore black t-shirts bearing the inscription: “I am an impoverished diplomat.” They…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
December 27, 2010
Israeli ambassador to the US asks for Jewish loyalty
Binyamin Netanyahu has shown a marked preference for American Jews. Many of them have, over the years, worked for him. He even appointed some to high office: Stanley Fischer as Director of the Bank of Israel, Michael Oren as ambassador to the US. It is possible there were not worthy of either office, but I…
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Yossi Gurvitz
November 11, 2010
Peace Now wants to collaborate with Lieberman
This, at any rate, is the headline of a small story by reporter Itamar Eichner in today’s Yedioth Ahronoth. Translation first, comments second: An extraordinary meeting, the first such meeting of the Lieberman era, took place some days ago at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, when Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met behind closed doors…
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Dimi Reider
November 7, 2010
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