TO DAY IN PALESTINE

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Land Theft and Destruction/Settlements

The Israeli military invade northern Gaza Strip and destroy farm lands
Israeli tanks invaded on Wednesday farm lands in northern Gaza Strip town of Khuza’a and destroyed them.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61725

Barak okays 37 more West Bank housing units
After Obama calls to ’restrain’ settlement activity, Ynet learns defense minister authorized additional construction in Karnei Shomron. Peace Now: Barak has become settlers’ contractor.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3780924,00.html

Rightist MKs: We mustn’t freeze settlement construction
As preparations were underway in New York on Tuesday for a tripartite meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Israel, right-wing ministers and MKs sent out a clear message - we mustn’t freeze settlement construction.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116173.html

For sale

Khalil sent me this: "Hi Asa’d. this is published today in the Marker (financial newspaper of Haaretz) in Hebrew. The headline says:"For sale, ancient house in jerusalem for 9 million dollars" The body of the article indicates it was built in the 1920’s by a rich Christian family, headed by the lawyer, Elias Mughnem, once the Palestinian council secretary. Offered for sale by the widow of Professor Dan Patenkin, the founder of the school of economy at the Hebrew University."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-sale.html

Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Three injured, 15 Bedouins arrested over land confiscation protest
Bethlehem - Ma’an/Agencies - Fifteen Bedouins were arrested on Wednesday near the Beersheba-area Goral Junction, according to the Hebrew-language newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=227269

Campus BDS movement looks to grow with Fall conference, Adam Horowitz
The Hampshire students are back and they’re looking to go big time. Last Spring we devoted a lot of space on this site to the inspiring battle over divestment at Hampshire college, led a courageous group of students. This story not only included the debate and struggle on campus, but national attacks against their effort including threatening, early morning phone calls from Alan Dershowitz. Well, it appears they have not been intimidated.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/09/campus-bds-movement-looks-to-grow-with-fall-conference.html

Protesters’ slogans in Iran
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/protesters-slogans-in-iran.html

Bristol-Gaza-Link launch event at Council House as part of series of demonstrations and events
The launch of the new Bristol-Gaza-Link association will take place at a public meeting on Monday 28th September in the Main Hall at the Council House, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TR. The guest speaker will be a representative of the Palestinian General Delegation to the UK. The meeting will be chaired jointly by Anira Khokhar of the Bristol Muslim Cultural Society and Glen Burrows Branch Secretary of the Bristol RMT Rail Union.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7083

Aggression and Violence

A Little Rude: Settlers Stab a Palestinian Working with B’TSelem
Every well-mannered activist knows that ethnic cleaning doesn’t make for pleasant dinner conversation. There’s something about military occupation that turns the stomach and if you want to keep your guests happy, best to keep the conversation light. Olives, tea, cute children - those are the polite things about which to speak.
http://inpalestine.blogspot.com/2009/09/little-rude-settlers-stab-palestinian.html

The Israeli military injures a man in Bethlehem city
Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday morning a Palestinian man at a military checkpoint separating the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem form Jerusalem.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61723

Detainees

Israeli army storms Gaza shores, 5 fishermen arrested
September 23, 2009, (Pal Telegraph)-Official sources reported that five Palestinian fishermen have been arrested today on Wednesday morning and seized their boats near the cost of the Gaza City.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/gaza-strip/2351-israeli-army-storms-gaza-shores-5-fishermen-arrested

PA: Israelis detain nine in village raids, beat man near Bethlehem
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli forces invaded villages in the West Bank on Wednesday morning, breaking into homes and detaining five men, according to the Palestinian Authority police’s public information office.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=227249

Palestinians working in Jerusalem and within Israeli boundaries arrested during Ramadan and Eid
Jenin / Ali Samoudi - Secretary-General of the Federation of Unions of Palestine, Haidar Ibrahim reports that the occupying Israeli authority arrested 440 Palestinian workers during Ramadan.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7090

War Crimes

The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
The recent report by a United Nations fact-finding team investigating allegations of war crimes committed during the attack on Gaza last winter is an historic contribution to the Palestinian struggle for justice, an impeccable documentation of a crucial chapter in their victimization under occupation. Its impact will be felt most impressively on the growing civil society movement throughout the world to impose cultural, sporting and academic boycotts, as well as to discourage investment, trade and tourism with Israel. Richard Falk comments.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10788.shtml

Israel asks EU envoys to renounce Goldstone Report
Foreign Ministry Director-General Yossi Gal meets with 26 European ambassadors, tell them UN committee’s conclusions on Israeli operation in Gaza ’is a source of concern for democratic countries fighting terror’.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3780493,00.html

Israeli Injustice System

Israeli police refuse to file a claim against settlers in favor of Palestinians
The Israeli police refused to file a complaint for Palestinian villagers from At-Tuwani village in the southern Hebron hills. The Palestinian villagers wanted to complain against settlers from the illegal settlements of Ma’om and its off shoot Havat Ma’on.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61719

Humanitarian/Human Rights Issues

Trauma-related psychological disorders among Palestinian children and adults in Gaza and West Bank, 2005-2008
Context: Trauma from war and violence has led to psychological disorders in individuals living in the Gaza strip and West Bank. Few reports are available on the psychiatric disorders seen in children and adolescents or the treatment of affected populations.ObjectiveTo describe the occurrence and treatment of psychiatric disorders in the Palestinian populations of the Gaza strip and Nablus district in the West Bank.Design, Setting, and Participants: From 2005 to 2008, 1369 patients aged more than 1 year were identified through a local mental health and counseling health network.
http://7thspace.com/headlines/321071/trauma_related_psychological_disorders_among_palestinian_children_and_adults_in_gaza_and_west_bank_2005_2008.html

MK Barakeh: Gaps a result of systematic discrimination
Hadash chairman, Arab right groups vexed over Central Bureau of Statistics report indicating sector’s socioeconomic state deteriorating; say only true, long term commitment by government has hope of changing things.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3780873,00.html

Few work opportunities under siege in Gaza
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - In the Rimal shopping area of Gaza City, a growing number of Palestinians have resorted to begging. Among them are widows trying to provide for their children, and children themselves begging to contribute to family income. An increasing presence of children selling one-shekel items dominates most Gaza City streets. The children, as young as seven or eight years old, spend their days enticing pedestrians or drivers at stoplights to buy their trinkets.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10786.shtml

Palestinians face $400 mln shortfall despite aid
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Palestinian authorities face a $400 million shortfall in the 2009 budget despite increased financial aid from international donors in recent months, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. "We note that there has been increased funding coming to the Palestinians, that’s on a positive note," Stoltenberg told reporters at the United Nations.
http://www.reuters.com/article/usDollarRpt/idUSN2236543020090922

Refugees

Riz Khan- The question of Palestinian refugees-22 Sep 09-Pt1
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to jump-start the Mideast peace process. It remains to be seen whether this will be a substantive meeting or a photo opportunity, but one thing is clear: the question of what to do with the millions of Palestinian refugees is still on the backburner. The refugees have been demanding to return to their original homes in what is now Israel for the past 61 years, but Tel Aviv insists that will never happen, because it would mean the end of the Jewish majority in the country. In the meantime, the 58 refugee camps spread throughout the region are constant reminders that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is far from resolved. In New York for a special series of programmes as world leaders gather for the UN general assembly Riz talks to the head of the UN agency in charge of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc5WVEFrE-I&feature=youtube_gdata

Riz Khan- The question of Palestinian refugees-22 Sep 09-Pt2
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to jump-start the Mideast peace process. It remains to be seen whether this will be a substantive meeting or a photo opportunity, but one thing is clear: the question of what to do with the millions of Palestinian refugees is still on the backburner. The refugees have been demanding to return to their original homes in what is now Israel for the past 61 years, but Tel Aviv insists that will never happen, because it would mean the end of the Jewish majority in the country. In the meantime, the 58 refugee camps spread throughout the region are constant reminders that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is far from resolved. In New York for a special series of programmes as world leaders gather for the UN general assembly Riz talks to the head of the UN agency in charge of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BRjQ-e64Y&feature=youtube_gdata

Political Developments

Haniyeh to UN chief: Hamas accepts Palestinian state in ’67 borders
The head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip has told United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon that the group supports any steps leading to the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, according to the Palestinian news agency Ramattan.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116171.html

Abbas says Israel must keep 2008 word
Palestinian president insists Jewish state halt settlement building in territories, including east Jerusalem. Palestinian source says Americans promised settlements construction would be frozen.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3780525,00.html

Will Abbas’s rising clout be hurt by Netanyahu meeting?
Palestinian polls show Abbas gaining significant support in recent months over Hamas, which harshly criticized his willingness to meet the Israeli leader without a settlement freeze in place.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0922/p06s09-wome.html

Obama Admin Urges Israeli-Palestinian Final-Status Talks, but Abandons Insistence on Israeli Settlement Freeze
The Obama administration has abandoned a demand that Israel freeze settlement expansion before the resumption of peace talks. President Obama signaled the shift on Tuesday as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization; and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, a Professor of international relations at the University of Oxford author of several books including his latest, “Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/23/obama_admin_urges_israeli_palestinian_final

Obama to UN: Israel, PA must launch talks ’without preconditions’
One day after a tripartite summit with Israeli and Palestinian leaders yielded no tangible results, United States President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks "without preconditions."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116463.html

Israeli settlements in W.Bank ’illegitimate’: Obama (AFP)
AFP - The United States does not view continued Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as legitimate, President Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly Wednesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090923/wl_afp/undiplomacyusobamamideastsettlements

Israel Summit A Victory For Settlement Stand, Says Avigdor Lieberman
JERUSALEM — Israel’s foreign minister said Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s summit with the Palestinian and American leaders was a victory because it took place even though Israel rebuffed demands to freeze settlement in the West Bank.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/israel-summit-a-victory-f_n_295768.html

Israel satisfied despite lacklustre Obama meeting (AFP)
AFP - Israel expressed satisfaction on Wednesday with the outcome of a three-way summit chaired by US President Barack Obama in New York which failed to produce a breakthrough in the stalled peace process.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090923/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacyusisrael

ANALYSIS

This is no George Bush summit
U.S. President Barack Obama stood behind a podium in New York City on Tuesday like a strict schoolteacher scolding the two pupils sitting before him - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - as well as their ministers.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116183.html

Obama Calls for an End to Stalling on Mideast Talks
President Obama exhorted Israeli and Palestinian officials to make haste in formally re-launching peace talks.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=76fbb264920c2729f460d88d3843ae93

Inside Story - Obama’s Middle East challenge - 23 Sep 09
Barack Obama, the US president, is hosting talks with Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in yet another push for peace in the Middle East. These trilateral talks come just days after George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, returned from the region - having failed to secure any new agreements with the leaders on their own soil. So, can Obama really deliver on this highly complex issue and just what are the implications of failure? Inside Story presenter Maryam Nemazee discusses with guests Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief of WorldNetDaily, prominent Israeli author and columnist, Mkhaimar Abu Sada, a professor of Political Science at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, and David Mack, the former US ambassador and vice president of the Middle East Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmCCWzu4gRo&feature=youtube_gdata

Obama: Peace in US interest, Helena Cobban
Finally, he said it! Just as I and some others have been urging him to do for some time now, today Pres. Obama said this about getting a final Israeli-Palestinian peace: "It’s not just critical for the Israelis and the Palestinians; it’s critical for the world. It is in the interests of the United States. And we are going to work as hard as necessary to accomplish our goals."
http://justworldnews.org/archives/003813.html

Scant hope from US-Israeli-Palestinian talks - 22 Sep 09
Barack Obama, the US president, has made efforts to get the Middle East peace process back on track, hosting talks between Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president in the US. Netanyahu has rejected a complete, fixed-period freeze in construction of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and Abbas has said talks are redundant while Israel continues its settlement activity. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qkurK8Kvh8&feature=youtube_gdata

IN PICTURES / Obama holds Israel-Palestinian summit in New York
President Barack Obama held his first Mideast summit Tuesday, meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of a United Nations conference, at his hotel in New York.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116178.html

Stern Obama confronts Israeli, Palestinian leaders (AP)
AP - Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders to relaunch Mideast peace negotiations Tuesday, grasping a newly personal role in their historic standoff. He won an awkward, stone-faced handshake but no other apparent progress beyond a promise to talk about more talks.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama

The Travels of Abu Mazen… (pictures)
http://tonykaron.com/2009/09/22/the-travels-of-abu-mazen/

The Dahlan lobby in Washington, DC: echoes of Netanyahu government
The Arab and international press (and the New York Times in its front page story)noted that Obama has shifted his position on colonial settlements, and that he no more is calling for an end to colonial settlement. The Israeli government was pleased, and the New York Times conveniently went to the chief Dahlan lobbyist in Washington, DC—a man who has found every war and policy in the Bush and Obama administration "a positive step"—to support the decision. "Ziad Asali, head of the American Task Force on Palestine, called Mr. Obama’s move on Tuesday “a positive step.” “This is something the Palestinians definitely want,” he said. Israeli officials, for their part, expressed satisfaction that Mr. Obama was letting up the pressure on settlements."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/dahlan-lobby-in-washington-dc-echoes-of.html

Other news

Lieberman surprised by PA negotiator’s good Hebrew at Obama summit
Lieberman, a far-rightist who has proposed forcing Israeli Arabs to swear an oath of loyalty to the state, exchanged seasonal greetings with Erekat at the meeting, which was hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama. The Palestinian negotiatior wished him a happy new year, referring to the recent Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116275.html

Egypt urges UN: Monitor Israel nuclear program
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has appealed to the United Nations Security Council to put Israel’s nuclear program under international supervision and set a timeframe for a nuclear-free Middle East.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116409.html

Sweden refuses Lieberman’s visit
Sweden has refused to open a judicial inquiry into a report published by the local paper Aftonbladet charging that the Israeli army was harvesting Palestinian organs.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7veocfqgMqxbf6s4J4TPsauwfmrW0hK8fzvOk%2b48y19g10sUTRmWue4oqg4ZHO01FdzkhOhCs2NFF31sSSd6ZTgBFYglPJD%2b4Pc7hJlSKPt4%3d

The armed Zionists are suffering
"Custom of shooting guns into the aircelebrations in Arab villages has been around for years, but the residents of Carmiel are finally fed up."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/armed-zionists-are-suffering.html

Analysis/Op-ed/Miscellaneous

media bias
"Of course, Al Jazeera has some overt prejudices. In covering the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, for example, it is clearly on the Palestinian side. Tear-jerking features about the sufferings of the Palestinians are not matched with equal coverage of the Israeli human terrain." Notice. American media don’t have overt prejudices BECAUSE they are clearly on the Israeli side, and their tear-jerking features about the "sufferings" of the Israelis are not matched with equal coverage of the Palestinian human terrain.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/media-bias.html

‘Israel ultimately is not democratic . . . and they engage in a light form of apartheid’, by Adam Horowitz
Notice the speaker Gavin Polone is introduced as a center right commentator. Looks like calling for ending US aid to Israel and identifying Israeli apartheid policies isn’t just for lefties anymore. Gavin Polone is a Hollywood producer who has a reputation for being outspoken. Wonder what he thought of the protests against the Toronto International Film Festival? Also, check out this great interview with Diana Buttu on MSNBC as well.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/09/israel-ultimately-is-not-democratic-and-they-engage-in-a-light-form-of-apartheid.html

`Azmi Bisharah has an impressive mind
This comprehensive interview with `Azmi Bisharah (conducted by comrade Samah and Yusri Al-Amir) shows his mind at his best: sharp, erudite, and critical. But I felt the interview ended abruptly.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/09/azmi-bisharah-has-impressive-mind.html

De-developing Palestine, one "visit permit" at a time
I am an American citizen of Palestinian descent and have been employed by the Arab American University-Jenin (AAUJ) in the occupied West Bank as an assistant professor of American literature for the past two and a half years. This month, while attempting to re-enter the West Bank through the land border with Jordan to start the academic year, I was denied re-entry by the Israeli authorities and questioned at length about my Palestinian heritage. The stated reason for the denial was that I had broken the law.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10787.shtml

Marwan Bishara on trilateral Middle East talks - 23 Sep 09
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst discusses the three-way talks between Barack Obama, the US president, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfu5dfA8E0M&feature=youtube_gdata

So what if Obama wants to move peace process forward?
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - "Alas, what is most noteworthy about the summit in New York is who was not there - the Israeli peace camp, which has withered away, and Hamas, which is celebrating."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116336.html

The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state?
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself… Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, is taking a tour around African countries that are connected with the Nile… and before time elapses, and before those who are in charge of us take the initiative to beg peace from Zionists, they have to thoroughly read what is taking place.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/22/ali-hattar-israels-thirst-for-the-niles-water/

Time to Break Free from Partition Straightjacket
The desperate and desultory New York ’summit’ among Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas and the evident capitulation of Obama to Israeli defiance of even his minimalist effort to achieve mere maintenance of the status quo have left most observers who genuinely seek peace with some measure of justice in an understandable state of despair.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15445

The West’s ’racism’ toward Palestine starts to unravel
Commenting on statements made by former US President Jimmy Carter, in which he said that many white Americans believe that "African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country," Bonnie Greer wrote in The Guardian, "It’s nasty. It’s scary. But face it, it’s not new - America was built on racism." No language can describe the Israeli crimes committed against unarmed civilian Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=106693

A Mideastern farewell photo at the UN?
No concrete results were expected from Tuesday’s meeting at the United Nations that brought together US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The gathering marked the end of the first phase of Obama’s intriguing foray into Arab-Israeli peace-making.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=106678

Daoud Kuttab: Obama Should Publicly Declare Israel’s Failure to Honor International Obligation
The summit meeting called for by President Obama on the eve of the opening of the UN general council is both good and bad news for Palestinians. President Obama should use the occasion to pressure the Israelis to live up to their obligations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/obama-should-publicly-dec_b_293957.html

Tripartite Threats: Obama’s Obstacles in the Middle East
With expectations building to unrealistic proportions, American, Israeli, and Palestinians officials have started downplaying the looming tripartite summit on the UN sidelines. All sides insist the meeting isn’t a resumption of negotiations, though America seems eager to press the possibility. While one official said, ‘These three leaders are going to sit down in the same room and continue to narrow the gaps,’ the Israeli press questioned President Obama’s motives and called the assembly a ‘tea or coffee’ meeting.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15444

’Free Yourselves from the Shackles of Israeli Pressure’, the Man Said
When the former mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, interviewed Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal last week he was immediately attacked by Britain’s Foreign Office Minister, Ivan Lewis. Lewis said: ’It is particularly regrettable that he [Livingstone] learned the wrong lessons from history by handing a propaganda coup to the leader of a terrorist organisation. Hamas has not only breached international law by firing rockets at civilian populations in Israel but continues to violate the human rights of Palestinians in Gaza’.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15443

Behind the moral veneer of Israel’s liberal establishment
Israeli liberals are often fond of pointing out that there is a lot more public criticism of their state’s violence at home than there is coming from the US. It is why when I first read David Landau (Haaretz Newspaper’s editor in chief from 2004-2008) New York Times attack on the Goldstein report, out rightly dismissing the report findings that the whole of Gaza and not just Hamas was a target, I thought it was an out-of-touch, bizarrely postmodern attempt at dramatic irony.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/09/behind-the-moral-veneer-of-israel%E2%80%99s-liberal-establishment.html

Judy Rebick: Naomi Klein vs. the "angry Jewish males"
My grandmother would have been so proud of Naomi Klein. "Such a pretty girl," she would have said "and so smart." She would have been amazed that a Jew, and a woman no less, could achieve such international recognition at such a young age. She might not have agreed with Naomi on Israel, but she would have been kvelling nonetheless.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/09/22/judy-rebick-naomi-klein-vs-the-quot-angry-jewish-males-quot.aspx