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Hunger-striking Palestinian detainee ends 25 days of hunger strikeWAFA - RAMALLAH, Thursday, June 23, 2021 (WAFA) - Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli detention who has been on hunger strike for 25 days in protest of his detention without a charge or trial, ended today his hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Israeli occupation authorities to release him next week. Jawad Boulus, Adnan`s lawyer, confirmed that he had visited him at the Israeli detention facility of Al-Jalama and that he suspended his hunger strike upon the agreement with the Israel Prison Service. (rh)27/6/2021
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Gaza’s Deadly Night: How Israeli Airstrikes Killed 44 PeopleEvan Hill, Ainara Tiefenthäler, John Ismay, Christiaan Triebert, Soliman Hijjy, Phil Robibero, Drew Jordan, Yousur Al-Hlou, Christoph Koettl and Patrick Kingsley - New York Times - On May 16, Israeli airstrikes destroyed three apartment buildings, decimating several families. We visited the scene, interviewed survivors and analyzed videos, photos and satellite images to find out what happened.(rh)27/6/2021
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There’s little cause for hope in Israel’s new governmentRaja Shehadeh - The Guardian - In his speech to the Knesset as incoming prime minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett had very little to say about his country’s biggest challenge, making peace with the Palestinians. It was as though by giving them only the briefest of mentions, the Palestinians, the nation that has lived under Israeli occupation for the past 54 years, would be obliterated out of existence. Instead he said he would “strengthen the building of communities across the land of Israel”, a statement clearly intended to include settlements in the occupied West Bank. Yet this was not the only violation of international law that appeared in the speech. In a clear rejection of the Oslo accords signed between Israel and the PLO in 1993 and 1995, he brazenly promised to “ensure Israel’s national interests in Area C”. This comprises some 60% of the area of the West Bank occupied by Israel in 1967, which according to those accords was to be handed back to the Palestinians. (rh) 27/6/2021
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Amnesty International: Israeli police commit `catalogue of violations` against PalestiniansEnglish.wafa.ps - LONDON, Friday, June 25, 2021 (WAFA) – Amnesty International Thursday stated that Israeli police carried out a “catalogue of violations” against Palestinians across Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, including unlawful force against peaceful protesters, sweeping mass arrests, and subjecting detainees to torture and other ill-treatment. The human rights organization reported that Israeli police have also failed to protect Palestinian citizens of Israel from premeditated attacks by groups of armed Jewish supremacists, even when plans were publicized in advance and police knew or should have known of them.(rh)27/6/2021
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Violations against children in conflict ‘alarmingly high’: UNAljazeera - Grave violations against children in conflict remain “alarmingly high”, with the coronavirus pandemic increasing their vulnerability to abduction, recruitment and sexual violence, a new United Nations report has found. In its annual Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) report (PDF), released on Monday, the UN said at least 19,379 children affected by war in 2020 were victims of grave violations such as recruitment or rape.(rh)27/6/2021
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IDF chief in Washington warns against return to Iran nuke dealJOSHUA DAVIDOVICH - Times of Israel - In first visit since Biden took office, Aviv Kohavi tells top Pentagon officials that existing pact allows Tehran to make ‘significant advances’ in nuclear program(rh)27/6/2021
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Jews have never felt at home in Israel, David Grossman saysPHILIP WEISS - Mondoweiss - A Jerusalem school has just posted an excerpt of a talk that David Grossman, a leading figure of the Zionist left, gave there last year. Grossman’s son Uri died in the Lebanon war in 2006 at age 20, and a student asked the novelist to reflect on the fact that his son might still be alive if the Grossman family didn’t live in Israel. Grossman responded that he had thought about leaving Israel, but resolved to stay because the country holds so much meaning to him. Grossman then took the question to Israel’s existential issues, and the importance of the Zionist mission for Jews to find a secure home in Israel, something they have failed to do in 73 years. (rh) 27/6/2021
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Palestinians attend funeral for PA critic Nizar Banat in HebronAljazeera - Thousands of Palestinians turned out on Friday in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to attend the funeral of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), who died in the custody of PA forces on Thursday Mourners travelled from across the occupied West Bank to attend Banat’s funeral prayers at Wasaya al- Rasool Mosque in Hebron and marched through the streets along with his family and friends before he was buried. The funeral began with the transfer of Banat’s body to his family home for a final farewell. (rh) 27/6/2021
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Not an “attempted arrest` - a targeted killingB`Tselem - In the early morning hours of 25 May 2021, an Israeli Special Police Unit vehicle drove up and blocked a car just after Ahmad ‘Abdu (25) got into it, in the Palestinian neighborhood of Um a-Sharayet next to al Birah, in the West Bank. Today (June 23), B’Tselem published video footage in which officers are seen getting out of the vehicle and immediately firing several shots at the car. [bz] 24/6/2021
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‘Wake up screaming’: Gaza’s children traumatised by Israeli warMaram Humaid - Aljazeera - As Gaza tries to recover from the deadly 11-day Israeli attack, mothers and mental health workers have raised concerns that the psychological effects of the violence will long linger among the children in the Strip. Hala Shehada, a 28-year-old mother from northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun area, told Al Jazeera when the air strikes started hitting Gaza earlier this month she found herself reliving the tragic memories of the 2014 Israeli offensive as if it were “yesterday”. (rh)20/6/2021
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Cancer Patient Denied Travel Dies, Israel Continues to Deny Patients Travel for Treatment AbroadPalestinian Center for Human Rights - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) follows up with concern the Israeli occupation authorities` ongoing ban of Gaza Strip`s patients with serious diseases from traveling for treatment abroad. PCHR fears that this would impact the lives of hundreds of patients, particularly those with cancer and not having treatment at the Gaza Hospitals. In a serious development, Hasan Ahmed `Abed al-Kharti (62), who had tongue and throat cancer, died on Tuesday, 30 May 2021. Al-Kharti had obtained a medical referral for treatment at al-Makassed Hospital in occupied Jerusalem, and the Health Ministry`s Coordination and Liaison Department applied for a travel permit on 27 May 2021. However, the Israeli authorities did not approve his travel. According to PCHR`s follow-up, the Israeli authorities closed Beit Hanoun "Erez" crossing on 11 May 2021, when the Israeli offensive started on the Gaza Strip, banning the travel of all categories limitedly allowed, including patients referred for treatment abroad. After the offensive ended, the Israeli authorities declared that only the urgent "lifesaving" cases will be allowed to travel via the crossing; however, the reality on the ground says that the Israeli authorities refused to respond to dozens of permit requests applied by the Health Ministry`s Coordination and Liaison Department on behalf patients with serious diseases, whose treatment is not available at the Gaza hospitals, and referred abroad for treatment in the hospitals in Israel, the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and abroad. It should be noted that the Israeli authorities allowed only the travel of 13 patients out of the 191 requests applied by the Coordination and Liaison Department to the Israeli authorities between 25 and 30 May 2021.(rh)20/6/2021
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Israeli Settler-Colonialism Protects US Interests, Hence the Unconditional SupportRamona Wadi - Palestine Chronicle - The US will not get involved in the current government turbulence in Israel, but remains committed to the security of the settler-colonial state, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has declared. Her words are a far cry from the impositions which Palestinians faced from the US and the international community when Hamas was elected in 2006 in the “free and fair” Palestinian legislative election. Palestinian democracy was subjected to unacceptable conditions and the US disregarded the whole electoral process, and the will of the people, to create a false narrative of democracy out of international impositions. When it comes to Israel, the US won’t interfere in political affairs, even when the government displays open contempt for US policy in the region. And Washington’s checkbook is always open. During the course of Israel’s recent military offensive against Gaza, for example, President Joe Biden went ahead and allocated $735 million worth of arms to be “sold” to the rogue state, illustrating how political allegiances have little to do with democracy and everything to do with human and political rights violations. (rh)20/6/2021
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Bibi is out. So why am I not celebrating?Amjad Iraqi - info@972mag.com via gmail - Yesterday was supposed to be historic. For the first time in 12 years, Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer the prime minister of Israel, after he was ousted by a baffling coalition cobbled together for the sole purpose of removing him from power. Yet as I watched a fiery Knesset ushering in the new government, the crowds of Israelis celebrating in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, and the cautious relief among many friends and colleagues here and abroad, I, like many Palestinians, could not help but feel… numb. (rh)20/6/2021
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Liberman said to tell his party members Haredim won’t be joining governmentTOI STAFF - Times of Israel - Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman reportedly told members of his right-wing, secular party Tuesday that the Knesset’s two ultra-Orthodox parties will not at any point be part of the incoming unity government, despite assertions by senior coalition leaders that the Haredi slates are still welcome to join. “It is not possible for the ultra-Orthodox to join the government. Anyone who claims that the ultra-Orthodox can be added to this government is deluding himself and others,” Liberman said at a faction meeting, according to a Wednesday Channel 12 report.(rh)20/6/2021
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The big man is gone, and the Israel lobby will never be the samePHILIP WEISS - Mondoweiss - Netanyahu easily moved U.S. policy for over a decade, due to the force of his will and the use of the powerful Israel lobby in U.S. politics, especially on the Democratic side. Today one force is gone and the other is in disarray.(rh)20/6/2021
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Netanyahu knows he’s no victim of election fraud. So why peddle the claim?HAVIV RETTIG GUR - Times of Israel - With the exception of their handling of the coronavirus crisis,” he wrote, “the Trump and Netanyahu administrations have acted over the past term like Siamese twins in all things — in their views on the rule of law, their hatred of the ‘deep state,’ their wild incitement against anyone not of their camp, their wild incitement against the free press, the spreading of disgusting conspiracy theories on social media, and the complete shattering of the principle that one tells the truth.” (rh)20/6/2021
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New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid Ariel Gold - World - After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu’s policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu’s. In 2013, as Middle East peace talks were set to resume after a five-year freeze, Bennett reportedly proclaimed to Israeli National Security Adviser Ya’akov Amidror, “I’ve killed lots of Arabs in my life – and there’s no problem with that.” In 2014, Bennett, who had previously been the director of the Yesha Settlements Council, contradicted Netanyahu by asserting that all Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, even those living in outposts that violate Israeli law, should remain under Israeli sovereignty, and called for more settlement construction. “This is the time to act,” he said. “We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused. We are building and we will not stop.” (rh) 20/6/2021
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Israelis Wonder When or Whether Netanyahu Will Exit Official ResidenceIsabel Kershner - New York Times - The paparazzi eagerly snap shots of random moving trucks in the vicinity of the prime minister’s official residence in Jerusalem. Political cartoonists are portraying Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s former prime minister, his wife, Sara, and their elder son, Yair, as squatters. And suspicions that Mr. Netanyahu might be reluctant to leave the stately home where he has lived for the past 12 years were bolstered this week when he hosted Nikki Haley, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations, at the official residence as if he were still running the show. Unlike in Washington, there is no set time by which an outgoing Israeli premier must move out and hand the house over to the victor and it can often take weeks, though it’s not as if the Netanyahu family has nowhere to go. Among their private residences is a home in the seaside town of Caesarea. But their relocation plans, if they exist, have become a subject of feverish speculation for a number of reasons.For starters, Mr. Netanyahu has accused his successor, Naftali Bennett, who was sworn in on Sunday, of committing the “fraud of the century” by using the votes for his right-wing constituency to lead an ideologically diverse coalition that Mr. Netanyahu has branded as a “dangerous left-wing” government. He has embraced his new role as a fighting opposition leader with alacrity while at the same time swearing to his own base that he will be back in power “sooner than you think,” making it sound as if it may hardly be worth uprooting the family from the residence that detractors said they had turned into their castle. (rh)20/6/2021
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Israel says the campaign of mass arrests is about “law and order,” but Palestinians know it is about quashing dissent inside the state.Abir Kopty - The Nation - The Israeli police have declared yet another war against Palestinians—this time, against Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in Jerusalem. And it requires global action. On Sunday night, the Israeli police announced the launch of a massive arrest campaign against Palestinians who took part in the latest uprising to resist Israel’s colonial project (the police charged them with participating in “riots” and online “incitement”). Within hours, police had begun raiding houses, arresting 165 protesters as of earlier today—a sweep they are expected to continue over the next few days as thousands of Israeli police officers, border police, and secret service members move to arrest some 500 protesters. Most are expected to be Palestinians, according to Israeli media. This campaign follows the arrests of 1550 others who were arrested in the past two weeks, of whom between 70 and 90 percent are Palestinian. (rh)13/6/2021
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Will Israel be held accountable for war crimes?Jessie Williams - Aljazeera - Like tens of thousands of people in Gaza, Aymen al-Djaroucha had to flee his home with his family last month during the 11 days of fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, mainly Hamas, which controls the blockaded enclave.//You have all your memories there, it’s where our children grew up, where we spent time with each other and shared happy moments and difficult moments. All my life was there.” (rh) 13/6/2021
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Israel parliament to vote on new government on SundayAljazeera - Israel’s parliament speaker has scheduled a vote for Sunday on a new government that would end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year rule, the longest in the country’s history. The debate and vote on the new government will take place Sunday… during a special session of parliament,” speaker Yariv Levin, a Netanyahu ally, said in a statement on Tuesday. (rh)13/6/2021
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After unending conflicts, Gazans wrestle with rebuilding — and whether it’s worth itLoveday Morris and Hazem Balousha - Ynetnews - For the 2 million residents of Gaza, last month’s hostilities were just the latest in an endless cycle of war, the fourth to convulse the Palestinian enclave along the Mediterranean in just 13 years. The latest fighting was impossible to escape as Israel struck more than 1,500 targets in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and other Gaza-based militants fired more than 4,300 rockets, wreaking terror on the other side of the border. More than two weeks after the cease-fire, life has returned; even beach cafes have reopened. But existence remains shaped by destruction and reconstruction. Families are being forced once more to rebuild and repair their homes, their businesses and what they can of their lives — their suffering compounded by losses on top of losses, trauma on top of trauma. (rh)13/6/2021
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Israel on cusp of new government, ending Netanyahu eraYnet,Reuters - Bennett, Lapid-led coalition to be sworn in at 4pm; with with razor-thin majority, it is set to avoid divisive issues such as Palestinians, focus on domestic reforms; outgoing PM yet to confirm attendance at ceremony (rh)13/6/2021
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After meeting Netanyahu, police chief to present options to enable flag marchTOI STAFF - Times of Israel - Police chief Kobi Shabtai will present Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with several alternatives in a bid to revive the contentious flag march planned in Jerusalem for Thursday, after police nixed the event‘s original date and path through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter. Following a meeting between Netanyahu, ministers and top security officials that ended just after midnight Monday, it was decided that Shabtai would present various alternative proposals to the political leadership for possible authorization, Ynet reported. Organizers had sought to hold a rescheduled flag march through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City on Thursday, after the original march on May 10 was stopped short by rocket fire from Hamas at Jerusalem, which sparked an 11-day bout of intense fighting. Police earlier reportedly sought to reroute the planned march away from the areas where it could cause a surfeit of friction between nationalist Jews and Palestinian residents of Jerusalem. In an official announcement Monday, Jerusalem police denied that they had called off the parade, but said that the date and route of the march should be approved by law enforcement and relevant political authorities. “With the current plan and current date, the march is not approved,” the statement read, adding that police would reexamine the march should organizers file for a permit with a new plan or new date.(rh) 13/6/2021
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Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem: The full story Israeli government plans to force Palestinian families out of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoodAbdel-Raouf Arnaout - Middle East - In the aftermath of the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians by Zionist gangs to pave the way for the creation of the state of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes in historical Palestine to neighboring countries. Following these events, which came to be known to the Palestinians as "Nakba", or the Catastrophe, 28 families settled in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in 1956, hoping that would be the last time they are forced out of their homes. But these families, whose number has grown to 38 since then, say they are experiencing a renewed Nakba on a daily basis. The Israeli Central Court in East Jerusalem approved a decision earlier this year to evict four Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in favor of right-wing Israeli settlers. Israel`s Supreme Court was scheduled to issue a ruling on the evictions on Thursday amid heated demonstrations and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers, but the decision was delayed until May 10.13/6/2021
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Israel’s Netanyahu lashes out as end of his era draws near: Benjamin Netanyahu says he is victim of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy, and speaks in apocalyptic terms about Israel without his leadership.AlJazeera - In what appear to be the final days of his historic 12- year rule, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not leaving the political stage quietly. The longtime leader is accusing his opponents of betraying their voters, and some have needed special security protection. Such language has made for tense days as Netanyahu and his loyalists make a final desperate push to try to prevent a new government from taking office on Sunday. With his options running out, it has also provided a preview of Netanyahu as opposition leader. (rh)13/6/2021
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Report: One Million Palestinians Detained by Israel since 1967 NaksaPalestine Chronicle - "Three Palestinian organizations said in a joint statement they documented over one million arrests of Palestinians, including some 17,000 cases concerning women and 50,000 concerning children" [ry] 7/6/2021
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Sanders Says He Will `Not Be Mourning` Netanyahu`s Departure From Israeli Politics : Top Obama admin official celebrated Netanyahu’s pending ouster, tweeting the Israeli leader, `a master of creating divisions, finally managed to unite people: his oppositSam Sokol Ben Samuels - Haaretz - The last-minute announcement Wednesday on the formation of a coalition that appears poised to bring an end to the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew only a handful of reactions from world leaders and Jewish advocacy organizations.//Senator Bernie Sanders, a long-time critic of the Netanyahu government, was one of the few major American politicians to comment on the tectonic shift, telling CNN`s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer that he was happy to see the back of Israel’s longest serving prime minister. (rh) 6/6/2021
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Abbas: Talking with Netanyahu first legitimized Ra’am across political spectrum : Report says Likud leader this week offered similar or better promises to Islamist party leader than those he got from ‘change bloc’TOI Staff - Times of Israel - A day after his Islamist party agreed to join the coalition of parties backing the “change government,” Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas said Thursday that he had preferred to conduct his initial negotiations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, enabling him to gain legitimacy not only on the right, but among the center and left that are now positioned to unseat Israel’s longest- serving premier with his help. Ra’am, a local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood movement whose charter calls Zionism “racist” and backs a right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, has never been part of a governing coalition. But in recent months, Abbas took major steps toward recognition from mainstream Israeli parties, softening his rhetoric and conducting extensive negotiations over political cooperation with Netanyahu’s Likud. However, after the premier’s far-right ally Bezalel Smotrich vetoed a Ra’am-backed right-wing government, Abbas went on to sign an unprecedented coalition deal with the “change bloc.” (rh) 6/6/2021
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A New Mental Health Crisis Is Raging in Gaza : Recent bombings by Israel have caused more than just physical traumaYasser Abu Jamei - Scientific America - “Have you ever seen a six- month old baby with exaggerated startle response?” One of my colleagues who works on our telephone counseling service was calling me for advice on how to respond to several distraught mothers asking her how to help their babies who had started showing such distressing symptoms of trauma during the recent bombing. Our telephone service was back and responding to callers on the third day of the attacks on Gaza, though of course with certain difficulties.The question took me back 20 years to when I was a young resident in the pediatric department at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza’s second biggest city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Then, my plan was to become a pediatrician. The hospital, on the western side of the city was not far from the Israeli settlements. Often in the middle of the night I used to receive mothers arriving in the pediatric emergency department with tiny children who had started screaming with no clear reason. Physical examination mostly revealed nothing abnormal. Perhaps this was the trigger that made me train to become a psychiatrist. During those nights, you could often hear shooting from inside the Israeli settlement’s high fortifications, with the bullets mostly ending in the walls of the Palestinian homes and other buildings that faced the settlements. That was the common experience we adults were used to, and of course something that children, even the very youngest, also had to live with.(rh) 6/6/2021
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Why Israeli progressives have started to talk about ‘apartheid’Michael Sfard - The Guardian - When I first heard this argument from Palestinians 20 years ago, I rejected it. But the evidence is mounting before our eyes.//First, there was Israel “inside the green line” – the de facto border established in 1949. We believed this was a democracy – imperfect, in need of improvement, but democratic. Its citizenry included a Palestinian minority (about a fifth of the population) who suffered from institutional discrimination, but hey, there are plenty of democracies in which minorities suffer discrimination. While the injustice surely needed correction, the fact that members of this minority enjoyed political rights preserved Israel’s status as a democracy in our eyes. The second part of the conflict was in the Palestinian territories that had been seized in the 1967 war and kept under a regime of military occupation – undemocratic by definition. We regarded the occupation of the Palestinian land as a temporary situation that did not point toward Israeli sovereignty – and we were fighting to end it sooner rather than later. Back in the 1980s, very few Israeli observers believed it was meant to last for ever. Put together, these two elements provided a clear explanation of what was going on between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. One part was a democracy; the other part was under occupation. This two-tiered paradigm became the lens through which we understood and analysed the situation we were living in. But as the years went by, this lens turned out to produce a rather limited view – to the point of distorting the picture. This understanding seeped slowly but steadily through to Israeli activists who were exposed to the reality of Israel’s colossal colonisation project in the West Bank, which consists of more than 250 settlements – a massive landgrab with its own road and infrastructure networks, served by a separate legal system. This looked anything but a temporary regime. (rh) 6/6/2021
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‘Laughable, naive’: Palestinian party’s move to join Israel gov’t : Palestinian activists say decision by the leader of the United Arab List party displays a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of Israeli politics.Arwa Ibrahim - Aljazeera - The United Arab List (UAL) is set to become the first party of Palestinian citizens of Israel to take part in a governing coalition after it agreed to join the new Israeli government to be led by Naftali Bennett – a former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who had called for the annexation of the occupied West Bank. Mansour Abbas, leader of the UAL, set aside his differences with Bennett, the 49-year-old former head of a settler organisation, and centrist leader Yair Lapid to sign up to a coalition of eight parties from across the political spectrum aimed at ending Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. (rh) 6/6/2021
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Attacks-on-the-icc-must-be-condemnedThe Guardian - We welcome the support that European leaders have expressed for the international criminal court and its unique mandate of advancing justice following war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Consistent support for the ICC and promotion of its universal reach highlight Europe’s serious commitment to deter such violations and to promote a rules-based international order, peace and security. It is clear that Europe has long benefited from multilateralism rooted in international law and the institutions that uphold it. Now, in a time of increasing challenges to the multilateral order and an independent judiciary in many corners of the world and within Europe itself, preserving the ICC’s legitimacy and mandate becomes an imperative. (rh) 6/6/2021
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Gantz indicates he’ll demand cancellation of Jerusalem right-wing paradeEMANUEL FABIAN and TOI STAFF - Times of Israel - Shin Bet domestic security service Director Nadav Argaman issued a rare warning on Saturday of possible violence during one of the most politically charged periods in decades, with the country on the verge of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its longest-serving leader. Netanyahu is facing the prospect of an end to his 12-year run as premier after centrist opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that he had succeeded in forming a governing coalition following the March 23 election. (rh)6/6/2021
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`King Bibi` Wasn`t the Only Big Myth Shattered in Israel This WeekAnshel Pfeffer - Haaretz - Diplomatic protocol dictates that you don’t rush to congratulate the leaders of another country on coming to power before you’re certain that it’s actually happening. So foreign leaders are not going to be getting in touch with Naftali Bennett to wish him success as Israel’s new prime minister until he is actually sworn in. They are fully aware, and if not will, have been informed by their diplomats stationed here, that it’s far from being a done deal. Benjamin Netanyahu will be fighting every inch of the way until the new government wins its confidence vote to pick off wavering Knesset members and deny Bennett his majority. Those leaders will wait until Bennett actually has his feet under the prime minister’s desk. So it was interesting to see that one major organization that is certainly well-versed in the vagaries of Israeli politics didn’t wait. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee had a press release up and ready to go just four and a half hours after the parties had signed the coalition agreement on Wednesday night, congratulating "Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett for assembling a broad and diverse coalition."(rh)6/6/2021
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Shin Bet chief warns of violence as Netanyahu faces unseatingReuters - Ynetnews - Shin Bet domestic security service Director Nadav Argaman issued a rare warning on Saturday of possible violence during one of the most politically charged periods in decades, with the country on the verge of unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, its longest-serving leader.(rh) 6/6/2021
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Palestinians see little difference in old and new Israeli leadersReuters - Ynetnews - Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza on Thursday mostly dismissed a change in Israeli government, saying the nationalist leader due to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would likely pursue the same right-wing agenda.(rh)6/6/2021
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