Bruce Ticker

Bruce S. Ticker

Bruce Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Black Lives Matter Should Stick to Its Core Issue; Leave Israel Out of It

How does the Black Lives Matter movement find the time and energy to brand Israel as an apartheid and genocidal state and equate its policies with police brutality? And why don’t any BLM members speak up about those among their associates who have diverted attention from the primary issue that inspired the Black Lives Matter campaign? [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA

Hamas Must Choose: Help Gazans or Forbid Others from Aiding Them

Hamas terrorists might wish to relish their victory over Israel while they can – their cynical public relations victory. For the moment, Israel is an ogre in the eyes of the world, Hamas is champion of the Palestinians. However, Hamas soon could replace Israel as villain of a drama that is much of its own making.  [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA

Arafat’s Refusal to Accept an Independent State Led to Subsequent Warfare

In the context of the 21 st century, Arafat’s rejection of a reasonable peace plan is the root cause of the May deaths of 12 Israelis and more than 230 Gazans, tit-for-tat bombardments, destruction of apartment buildings in Gaza, attempted evictions of Palestinians in east Jerusalem and police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East

Israeli Right-Wingers Exacerbate Hostilities with Palestinians

Whenever trouble erupted in Israel during the 1980s, “colleagues” in my newsroom in central Pennsylvania would gaze at me suspiciously. At a laundromat in the same small town, a Democratic city councilman complained about Israel’s oppression of the poor Palestinians and an Israeli gunboat raid on the Liberty, an American intelligence vessel discovered off the Egyptian coast during the 1967 war. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East

Palestinian Authority Deals Vaccines to Favorite Few

The Palestinian leadership is supplying SNL’s Michael Che with unexpected material for his Covid-19 vaccine punchlines.

The Palestinian Authority, which administers limited public services in Israel’s territories, is now accused by its own people of distributing Covid-19 vaccines to the privileged at the expense of needy Palestinians. Such an allegation should make one wonder how the Palestinians will govern their own independent state. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East