This week's postings at JfJfP.com

This week, July 20-26, 2015 the Iran nuclear deal is still the dominant talking point in the Israeli media – or rather, absolutely not a talking point in the sense of argument; rather, it is a matter of loud unthinking assertion that the deal, in Netanyahu’s words, is an ‘historic mistake’ granting the Iran government ‘a license to kill’; kill Jews that is. This post features the two Israelis who broke ranks, who also happen to be two of Israel’s most knowledgeable men on nuclear capabilities.
Israeli politicians oppose Iran deal with patriotic front

The eager agreement from all party leaders (except the Joint List) to follow the Netanyahu / Adelson line (for it is the fat man in Macao who pays the piper) dismays Uri Avnery – as does the way in which paymaster and piper feed antisemitic caricatures,
Brain-dead politics

(And on antisemitic caricatures, in which all-powerful wealthy Jews scheme for world domination, we post the protest from David Baddiel about conspiracy theorists:
Know-nothings blame the Jews)

Of course AIPAC agrees with the Adelson/Netanyahu views and is spending more money on adverts, and setting up a front organisation, on trying to kill the deal than it has ever spent on any other project.
AIPAC pours money into killing the Iran deal

Unexpectedly, Malaysia has said that when the UN Security Council (UNSC) discusses the Iran deal, it will include the question of Israeli treatment of Palestinians as part of its submission. This follows the French withdrawal of their resolution on Palestine/Israel because the US declared it would veto it. Let’s see what happens to this plan.
Malaysia will put Palestine on UNSC agenda

More dominant outside Israel has been the fight of the people of Susya, Sussia, Susiya,  (the attempt to differentiate it it from the Jewish settlement of Sussia by different spellings has not worked) against the demolition of their village. They have galvanised international opinion on their side from the USA, the EU, many Israelis and other bodies as well as Palestinians themselves.

Why this one village among so many? The question is asked by Nasser Nawaja
If Susya falls so will others

and Amira Hass
Susya the symbol

and both give the same answer: Susya has come to stand for the general. If demolition can be prevented by mass national and international protest then there is hope for others, and by focusing on one village – first brought to prominence because of the dogged support and legal battle put up by Rabbis for Human Rights – the precarious status of Palestinian villages, ever subject to the whims of bureaucracy or the brute force of the IDF, will be better known. In this they have succeeded and Adam Keller describes the demonstration of support organised by Israelis.

The above posting has several articles. As well as Hass and Keller there is a stunning one from Barak Ravid: Haaretz has managed to obtain documents that prove Palestinians have legal entitlement to Susya. This may bring relief to the Israeli state though presumably it will infuriate settlers in the other Susiya.

And no report yet on the emergency demonstration, in response to the call by B’Tselem, organised by JfJfP on Sunday:
Emergency demonstration against the demolition of Susya village

Just as Operation Protective Edge continues to reverberate so does the 2010 attack on the Mavi Marmara (nine killed), lead ship in the freedom flotilla.   In a more detailed report than we have posted so far, the Independent on Sunday examines the legal consequences of the decision by the International Criminal Court to call for a new investigation of the lethal attack.
‘Reasonable belief’ war crimes committed on Mavi Marmara

Meanwhile, the consequences of the EU’s opposition to settlements are taken up by the European Council on Foreign Relations whose policy brief we have posted in full. It has invaluable information for anyone who wants to hold the EU to its policy position.
Advice to EU: differentiate Israel from settlements

In an article on the plan to twin Amsterdam with Tel Aviv unexpectedly opposed by all segments of the Dutch left, Markha Valenta answers the question of why Europeans are so critical of Israel:
We ‘pick on’ Israel because we made it exceptional

As if Hamas doesn’t have enough enemies, ISIL has now declared Hamas is a tyrant and insufficiently Islamic so must be overthrown.
Isil takes aim at Hamas

How are Palestinians to resist the illegal occupation? They are dependent on other nations taking up their cause (see above). In another move to stamp down on any expression of opposition, the Knesset has now ratified the security cabinet decision that throwing stones should be declared a terrorist offence deserving a 20-year sentence.
Stone-throwing defined as terrorism
Surely a matter for international opposition.