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Deportation case of N.J. Muslim cleric is sent back to immigration judge for rehearing.
That would be the case of Palestinian Imam Mohammad Qatanani, whose application for a green card was stymied by questionable information provide by Israeli authorities that he had been arrested and convicted there. The imam maintains that he was detained by the Israelis, but never arrested and had never been the subject of a trial.
Al-Arabiya: ‘Israel wins as US drops call for settlement freeze.’
Israel savored a victory on Sunday after U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton hailed his “unprecedented” position on settlements and back tracked from a previous call for a complete freeze to settlement construction before possible peace talks with the Palestinians.
“There is no question that the United States are our staunchest friends and that Israel’s firm stance on its positions pays off,” Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told public radio on Sunday in a satisfied tone echoed by other officials.
The Israelis had reason to be satisfied.
In a joint press conference held, unusually, before talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed for negotiations to be restarted as soon as possible, despite the Palestinian insistence — which Washington backed only a few months ago — that Israel must first put a stop to all settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.
Sigh. Rewarding the Israelis for being obstinate and disagreeable will yield more of the same in the future. Sucks to be you Mrs. Clinton.
Kudos to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show fame, for inviting a Palestinian and an anti-Zionist Jew on his show. Adam Horowitz at Mondoweiss was in the audience:
I don’t want to recount the whole interview, you can watch it. I have to say, I was blown away. Although I was laughing out loud for the first two segments, I was on the verge of tears throughout the interview. Here was a Palestinian leader demanding equal rights and an anti-Zionist Jew calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel towards peace on The Daily Show and they were being applauded, while the traditional pro-Israel hasbara was being shown the door.
Palestinian equal rights was placed directly next to health care and the economy on The Daily Show’s progressive agenda and the audience was totally along for the ride. I could hardly believe my eyes, and yet it made perfect sense at the same time. Who can argue that it is necessary to deny people water? Who can argue against equal rights? The answer is increasingly no one, and if The Daily Show’s audience is any indication, the next generation will be leading this fight in a much different direction.
Follow the link above to see the full, unedited segment.
JStreetJive – a new attack and smear site against the pioneering JStreet group. See Richard Lionheart for more details.
it looks slick on the surface but the writing I think is fairly mundane. They are definitely being bankrolled, though we need to avoid the reflexive impulse to paint that fact as significant the way the right does with Soros/CAP – theres nothing wrong with being sponsored, but there is something wrong with being non-transparent.
My feeling is you will find the same people behind Obsession etc behind this. The overlap of pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups is non-trvial.
Palestinian-Israeli conflict could get much worse if tolerated.
If he [Obama] allows Israel to continue to stall and to demonstrate that it will make no end to the West Bank occupation, he will disappoint the highest hopes that have existed among both Jews and Arabs since 1967 that a positive outcome is possible between Israel and the Palestinians.
In that case, there may be still another, and more violent, intifada, and more regional violence and terrorism. Or perhaps nothing will happen. An apartheid Israel will survive, and the Palestine population will grow, whether within or without the legal frontiers of Israel.
The Palestinian leaders, their people, the Hezbollah and Hamas leadership, and the Palestinians’ external Arab supporters, as well as the Israelis themselves, will decide that, and will have to accept the consequences.
But there will be other consequences. The present condition of low-level but generalized war, or state of terrorism, or institutionalized hostility by Muslims against the United States and against Americans, will continue and undoubtedly widen.
Americans convinced that America must dominate the Middle East will grow in influence; there will, in some sense, be a restoration of the national leadership and outlook that existed under George W. Bush.
The governments and public opinion of the European Union will disengage from U.S. pro-Israeli policies. There will be sanctions on Israel of various kinds, and no doubt measures of intellectual, cultural, sportive and other boycotts of Israel, of the kind already envisaged in some Western circles.
Emigration from Israel of the young, the talented, the morally alienated—also a reality today—will increase. But further speculation is undoubtedly unprofitable.
A “docu-music-video” from Detroit MC Invincible for her song “People Not Places.”
Adam Horowitz writes, “The video, like the song, is a powerful indictment of both the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people, and attempts to shield young American Jews from this reality through programs like Birthright.” Check it out.
Gateway High School officials met with parents Wednesday after seniors Mohammad Al-Abbasi, 18, and Ahmad Al-Sadr, 17, left school Tuesday after refusing to take off the checkered scarves, believed by some to be a symbol of terrorism. [Can you tell this is a Fox News report?]
District spokeswoman Cara Zanella told FOXNews.com the ban was an attempt to diffuse tension between Jewish and Muslim students, after three students wore shirts to school saying “RIP Israel.”
The students removed the shirts when ordered to do so but the incident led to a petition from Jewish students saying they felt threatened, Zanella said.
A student then wrote an article in one of the local newspapers about Muslim dress, reportedly caling the scarves “hate” clothing.
“As a result then the tensions started to escalate between the two factions,” Zanella said.