by John Lyons
13
http://www.haaretz.com/black-like-me-1.281530
14
Max Blumenthal, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, Nation Books 2014.
15
The Times of Israel, 1 June 2016.
16
Haaretz, 25 May 2016.
17
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.693502
18
Chemi Shalev, ‘Berlin, 1933 and Jerusalem, 2014: When racist thugs are on the prowl’, Haaretz, 2 July 2014.
14: The American Factor
1
http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/rob_eshman/114519/
2
Thomas Friedman interview, Channel 10 Israel, 14 September 2016.
3
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/27/exclusive-kerry-warns-israel-could-become-an-apartheid-state
4
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/1/kerry-israel-apartheid.html
5
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kerry-confronted-over-sarcasm-on-israeli-invasion-of-gaza/
6
newrepublic.com/article/117247/contentious-interview-rahm-emanuel
7
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698153
8
http://mondoweiss.net/2016/09/israel-turning-friedman/
9
http://nypost.com/2016/12/06/kushner-foundation-donated-to-jewish-settlements-in-west-bank; Washington Post, 5 December 2016; http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/kfile-david-friedman-november-speech
10
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/02/15/903972-bibi-israel-palestinians-netanyahu/
11
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/opinion/inching-toward-a-one-state-solution.html?_r=0
12
James Abourezk, United States Senator 1973–79, http://www.honorlibertyvets.org/experts.html#.WT93e1WGPcs
13
Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby, Lawrence Hill & Co, Chicago, 1985, p 166.
14
Adlai Stevenson III, interviewed by William J Small, United Press International, for publication 28 September 1980.
15
David G Nes, Oral History, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.
16
George W Ball and Douglas B Ball, The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present, WW Norton & Co, New York, 1992, pp 57–58.
17
Thomas Friedman, New York Times, 1 August 2009.
18
William Koenig, Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel, revised edition 2006, pp. 247–248.
19
http://www.jta.org/2015/09/03/news-opinion/politics/some-jews-have-divined-the-real-cause-of-jimmy-carters-cancer
20
http://www.haaretz.com/settlementdollars/1.689683
21
www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/19/us-bingo-funding-israeli-settlements
15: The Lobby
1
John Lyons, ‘Defiant Israel turns its back on peace push’, The Australian, 13 March 2010.
2
Jerusalem Post, 29 October 2016.
17: Sunset in Gaza
1
International Crisis Group, ‘Radical Islam in Gaza,’ 29 March 2011.
2
Michael Owen, ‘Israel must not be permitted to crush Hamas,’ Washington Post, 24 July 2014.
3
www.usip.org/sites/default/files/Special%20Report%20224_Hamas.pdf
18: Returning to Iran
1
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21588438-will-saudi-women-ever-be-allowed-behind-wheel-car-ovarian-issue
2
http://www.reuters.com/article/iran-alcohol-idUSL5N0LF1GK20140326
3
www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/21/iran-supplied-hamas-missile-technology
19: The View from Palestine
1
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-admits-it-covertly-canceled-residency-status-of-140-000-palestinians-1.360935
2
cdn3.phr.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Divide-And-Conquer.pdf; documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/137111468329419171/West-Bank-and-Gaza-Area-C-and-the-future-of-the-Palestinian-economy
3
The Guardian, 2 June 2014.
20: Netanyahu’s Israel
1
New York Times, 19 November 1995.
2
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.639193
3
Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1995.
4
Channel 10, Israel, 18 July 2010.
5
Maariv, 27 May 2010.
6
https://972mag.com/resource-what-is-the-e1-area-and-why-is-it-so-important/61298/
7
Forward, 4 March 2015.
8
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinian-israel-settlements-idUSKBN0EZ0JA20140624; and Ynet, 10 November 2014.
9
https://972mag.com/next-head-of-civil-administration-said-palestinians-are-sub-human/106533/
10
Haaretz, 22 April 2009.
11
Haaretz, 7 August 2013.
12
www.ipforum.org/
13
Haaretz, 13 November 2003.
14
John Cassidy, ‘A British friend of Israel speaks out,’ New Yorker, 14 October 2014.
15
www.thejc.com/comment/comment/take-a-lawyer-s-advice-visit-the-occupied-territories-1.52007
Epilogue: Farewell, Jerusalem
1
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.769360
2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/06/israel-likely-pass-bill-retroactively-legalising-jewish-settlements
3
Ibid.
4
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/01/hamas-new-charter-palestine-israel-1967-borders
5
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen
6
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/global/roger-cohen-sitting-down-with-amos-oz.html
7
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2011, p. 2.
PHOTOS SECTION
Jerusalem.
John, Sylvie, Jack and elder son Nicolas at Qala’at ibn Maan Castle, overlooking Palmyra, Syria.
On camels, just outside Cairo in 2009. Once the internal unrest in Egypt began, tourism virtually died.
Sylvie and Jack in Cairo in front of street art depicting fallen Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Palestinians in the Old City of Hebron have erected a metal covering to protect themselves from bricks, chairs, rotting chickens and dirty nappies which the settlers throw onto them.
John and his editor, Paul Whittaker, in Hebron. ‘Like Dresden after the bombing,’ said Paul.
Sylvie and Jack having a day out in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers walk through the Palestinian market of the Old City of Hebron.
John joins the Israeli Army for the weekly clash with Palestinians at the wall in Bil’in.
Every Saturday afternoon Israeli soldiers escort settlers, who sometimes destroy Palestinian goods, through the market in Hebron.
Border police check the IDs of Palestinians who want to enter the Old City of Jerusalem for Friday prayers. Males aged five to 50 are sometimes refused entry.
Gaza, 2010: John interviewing Ahmed Yusef, a member of the Hamas executive.
The long walk into Gaza: through Erez Crossing then for one kilometre along this caged corridor.
Gaza 2014: two children stand between a bombed wat
er tower and mosque.
Transporting by donkey a fridge smuggled via a tunnel into Gaza from Egypt.
The wall in Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem. Palestinians who cannot get a permit sometimes resort to climbing ladders to get into Jerusalem for work.
Jack building a Lego ‘wall of Bethlehem’.
Israeli police demolished the house Mrs Fakhouri’s family lived in for decades.
Police in Jerusalem clash with ultra-orthodox Jews trying to shut down the Mamilla shopping centre car park during the Sabbath.
An elderly Palestinian man asking his Jewish neighbours why they have turned off his water.
John asking the same. They said it was an accident.
Christian Zionists from around the world travelled to the West Bank to celebrate the end of a 10-month settlement freeze.
John with Yehuda Shaul, the founder of Breaking the Silence, a group of more than 1000 current and former Israeli combat soldiers trying to end the occupation.
Palestinians clash with the Israeli Army at the Shuafat refugee camp.
John with settler spokesman David Ha’ivri. He was born in America as David Axelrod and changed his name to David Ha’ivri, meaning David the Hebrew.
Four Palestinian youths appear before an army judge in the Israeli Military Court in the West Bank. Children as young as 12 can be taken from their homes at night and are not permitted to have a parent or lawyer present for questioning.
John talking to fellow Melburnian Mark Regev who moved to Israel and became the spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert talking with John at a dinner in Jerusalem.
Doing research in the West Bank with prominent US journalist Peter Beinart.
On the Jerusalem balcony: (left to right) friend Hamish Wyatt; John; and founders of Military Court Watch Salwa Duaibis and Australian lawyer Gerard Horton.
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