Israeli companies are feeling the impact of boycott moves in Europe, according to surveys, amid growing concern within the Israeli business sector over organised campaigns following the recent attack on Gaza. Last week, the Israel Manufacturers Association reported that 21 percent of 90 local exporters who were questioned had felt a drop in demand due to boycotts, mostly from the UK and Scandinavian countries. Last month, a report from the Israel Export Institute reported that ten percent of 400 polled exporters received order cancellation notices this year, because of Israel’s assault on Gaza. 

Where Is Israel Headed? 
John J. Mearsheimer
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/please_tell_me_where_is_israel_headed 

… The Obama administration will surely try to push Netanyahu to change his thinking about a two-state solution and work to give the Palestinians a real state of their own. The Israel lobby, however, will adamantly defend Israel’s right to do whatever it wants in the Occupied Territories and make it impossible for the president to put significant pressure on Israel. Netanyahu, like all Israeli leaders, understand this basic fact of life. He knows that he will just have to say a few nice words about the “peace process” and blame the whole thing on the Palestinians, who he believes are a bunch of terrorists anyway, and he will be pretty much free to do whatever he wants in Gaza and the West Bank.

Zwi Migdal: Story of a Criminal Organization 
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwi_Migdal 

Zwi Migdal, also known as Zvi Migdal, was a criminal organization of Jewish gangsters that specialized in worldwide prostitution and trafficking of women who came from the shtetls in Eastern Europe … The Zwi Migdal organization reached its peak in the 1920s when some 430 rufianos, or pimps, controlled 2,000 brothels with 4,000 women in Argentina alone. 

Israel: Transforming International Law by Violating It 
George Bisharat — San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/01/EDKP16PF6S.DTL 

… Israel has a lengthy history of unpunished abuses of international law – among the most flagrant its decades-long colonization of the West Bank. To its credit, much of the world has refused to ratify Israel’s violations. Unfortunately, our government is an exception, having frequently provided diplomatic cover for Israel’s abuses. Our diplomats have vetoed 42 U.N. Security Council resolutions to shelter Israel from the consequences of its often illegal behavior. We must break that habit now, or see international law perverted in ways that can harm us all. 

Obama’s Dilemma: Israel’s Threat to Strike Iran 
Gareth Porter and Jim Lobe — Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46441 

A recent statement by the chief of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. David Petraeus, that Israel may decide to attack Iranian nuclear sites has been followed by indications of a debate within the Barack Obama administration on whether Israel’s repeated threats to carry out such a strike should be used to gain leverage in future negotiations with Tehran. In the latest twist, Vice President Joseph Biden, who has been put in charge of the administration’s non-proliferation agenda, appeared to reject the idea. 

Obama Declines to Call Armenian Deaths in World War I `Genocide’ 
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/06/obama-declines-killings-armenians-genocide-despite-tough-stance-candidate/ 

President Obama on Monday declined to repeat his claim that the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I was a “genocide,” stepping back from his campaign pledge to Armenian Americans that the “widely documented fact” would be fully commemorated during his presidency.