The editor of Allvoices, Joel Schalit is the former managing editor of Tikkun magazine, and associate editor of the award-winning politics and culture 'zine Punk Planet.
Good for Facebook. Offering users the ability to choose between 'Palestine' and 'Israel' is the only rational way to satisfy both parties. Granted, the settlers are still living in a foreign country, but that's not the issue, because this is really about Facebook. By offering the option, Facebook is indicating that it wants to be fair and stay neutral.
All the government did was place restrictions on Al-Jazeera's reporters operating in Israel. The impact will have limited consequences. However, it is meant to be a warning to the broadcaster.
What an extraordinary picture. Based on such characterizations of the polling, I'd be extremely hard-pressed to imagine any formal polling results being reasonably certifiable by the OSCE's standards.
Why do you put your name in the titles of your posts?