Commentary
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To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks | | Terry Crawford-Browne--If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel`s violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict. With computerization, international banking technology has advanced dramatically in the subsequent 20 years since the South African anti-apartheid campaign. | 31/10/2010 |
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Israel is proud to present: The aggressor-victim | | Gideon Levy--Israel is proud to present: The aggressor-vicitim. History has known crueler and even longer occupations than the Israeli one, and there have been much worse attacks on civilian populations than Operation Cast Lead. But there has never been an occupier who presented himself like that, as a victim. | 31/10/2010 |
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Why I protested the Jewish National Fund | | Jesse Benjamin--This Columbus Day weekend, the Jewish National Fund USA held its annual meeting in Atlanta. Like many Jews from the US, I grew up in communities that raised money for seemingly benign JNF campaigns to plant trees in Israel through our purchase of Hanukkah candles. But this year, as the JNF gathered in Atlanta, I stood with many Atlanta Jews and others to protest JNF practices which stand as obstacles in the path to a just peace based on freedom, safety, and equality for Palestinians and Israelis alike. | 31/10/2010 |
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Greenstein and Fine: debate on BDS and Zionism | | Professors Greenstein and Fine - Is Israel being held to an unfairly
high standard by the West? | 29/10/2010 |
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Hamas official: Another Gaza war would cost Israel dearly | | By DPA
Haaretz
"We seriously consider Israel`s threats to launch another war on Gaza, but we frankly say if Israel tries to enter Gaza, it will cost it a lot and it won`t be able to achieve its goals," said Mahmoud al- Zahar during a workshop in Gaza." ca
| 29/10/2010 |
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Desmond Tutu Calls to Boycott Israel | | Ane Irazabal - IMEMC & Agencies - Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu said that it would be "unconscionable" for the Cape Town Opera to perform in Israel while millions of people living in the Palestinian territories are being denied access to culture and education. In his opinion, the opera "Porgy and Bess" has a "universal message of nondiscrimination," which is in complete contradiction to the behavior of Israel toward Palestinians. | 28/10/2010 |
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Anonymous soldiers | | Yitzhak Laor - Haaretz - What is the value of public opinion when it will only accept "zero casualties," and all the rest is just manipulation? And what is the value of public opinion if it has the right to decide on the mass murder of people who are citizens of other countries, and who cannot themselves participate in the decision?
| 28/10/2010 |
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Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. | | Jonathan Freedland -
Guardian -
"...there have been crockery-throwing rows with the Israelis, and a nice speech in Cairo, but little tangible progress." | 27/10/2010 |
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The Israeli left is also focusing on wealth rather than peace | | Yossi Melman -
Haaretz -
"To many people, the left and the search for peace, as they are represented faithfully by the Peres Center as well, are identified with monied interests." id | 27/10/2010 |
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Ameer Makhoul and Israel`s Sham Justice | | When you are a political activist facing a sentence of life to be handed down by a security state in which all the levers of power are arrayed against you; when you are a father and husband facing the prospect of never seeing your daughters till they themselves are grown.... what do you do? ao | 30/10/2010 |
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Historic BDS debate in Zeek | | Zeek, the artsy hipstery Jewish journal, published two long pieces on BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) for what I assume is the first time. ...it is the BDS-demonizers who find themselves increasingly having a conversation only with themselves. ao | 30/10/2010 |
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Would US work against unilateral `Palestine?` | | Herb Keinon - Jerusalem Post - Diplomacy abhors a vacuum: if you don`t fill it, someone else will do it for you. There are those telling Netanyahu to take note.
| 26/10/2010 |
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Red Rag: Letter to the judges of the Supreme Court after the rejection of Mordechai Vanunus appeal | | Gideon Spiro - Judicial wickedness | 26/10/2010 |
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Israel`s best diplomatic option is accepting Arab peace initiative, study finds | | Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - Study by THE establishment thinktank concludes: Accepting initiative would improve Israel`s security and economic situation. **Second part of this column is about Ir Amim, confronting the State Comptroller for pursuing justice in East Jerusalem very selectively. bz | 26/10/2010 |
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Oh Israelis Sorry for the inconvenience | | Issa Qaraqe - "Oh Israelis . After everything that happened between us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by our refusal to give up our soul. It has more patience than is bearable. You paid a high price militarily, economically and psychologically to control and destroy it but you failed" | 25/10/2010 |
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Information for all | | Haaretz Editorial - The WikiLeaks release of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents related to American fighting in Iraq should not just be stirring up the emotions of those who were directly involved | 25/10/2010 |
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Pete Seeger: Unless we communicate, mankind will disappear | | Ayelet Yagil--"Little by little I understood more how Zionism started. Of course, after the horrible experience of Hitler many people went to Israel. On the other hand, had I known more then, what was going to happen to Jews everywhere, I would consider how to prevent this terrible situation going on right now." | 24/10/2010 |
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VIDEO: University of Michigan Students Walk Out of IDF propaganda Talk | | A Hasbara event on campus is derailed when nearly all the audience turns out to be protesters, who eventually stand and walk out in dignified silence. 2-minute video (link to longer video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAvhqYJrW4Y) ao | 23/10/2010 |
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Just Knock It Off | | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN -
NYT -
"Abbas is weak and acts weaker. Netanyahu is strong and acts weak. It is time for both to step it up. And it is time for all the outsiders who spoil them to find another hobby."
| 20/10/2010 |
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Loyalty oath isn`t racist, but it will destroy Israel | | Yehuda Ben Meir - Haaretz - A healthy, life-seeking society does not intentionally create conflict with 20 percent of its members [the author comes to this conclusion without sharing OM`s views - bz]
| 19/10/2010 |
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South Africa mission comes to Ramallah to aid Palestinian reconciliation | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - South Africa`s diplomatic mission in Ramallah is trying to assist the reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah, on the assumption that internal Palestinian unity is necessary to successfully fight the Israeli occupation | 21/10/2010 |
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On the academic boycott (again) - plus exchange of letters | | Article on boycott of Israel by Prof. Ran Greenstein, followed by an extended exchange of letters with Prof. Robert Fine | 21/10/2010 |
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Dr. Avineri and Mr. Lieberman | | Ran Greenstein - Occupation Magazine - A discussion of the liberal
Zionist apologetics for an exclusionary Jewish state | 21/10/2010 |
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Yes Indeed, Show Us All The Map! | | Alan Hart - Countercurrents - IF Israel was interested in peace on terms virtually all Palestinians and most other Arabs and Muslims everywhere could accept, the map provided would show Israel with borders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war. An accompanying note would say that, subject to agreement in final negotiations, Israel seeks minor border adjustments here and there. The note would also propose that Jerusalem should be an open, undivided city and the capital of two states.
| 20/10/2010 |
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Israels Loyalty Oath: Lets Drink to New Jewish Republic | | Richard Silverstein - Tikkun Olam - As one of my commentators with whom I rarely agree wrote: its an answer to a question no one is asking. There are very few non-Jews seeking to become citizens of Israel. So the oath is a political provocation by Avigdor Lieberman meant to gin up hysteria and support among his far-right nationalist base. As Ive written here, the only reason this bill will become law is as a quid pro quo from Bibi to his farther right allies hoping to retain their support when and if he extends a settlement freeze.
| 20/10/2010 |
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The international community`s final test | | Mustafa Barghouthi -
EI -
"We have reached, and probably surpassed, that critical point at which any more settlements mean the death of the two-state solution."
| 20/10/2010 |
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Please give generously, but not to armies | | Khaled Diab -
Guardian -
"There is a case to be made for outlawing charities whose purpose is to serve foreign militaries."
| 20/10/2010 |
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Top 10 worst errors Israel is about to make | | Bradley Burston - Haaretz - Major mistakes: what they are, why they matter, where they stand, and what you can do. bz | 19/10/2010 |
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An oath worthy of Orwell | | I decided to investigate the matter to gain a little perspective and accessed the oaths required of naturalized citizens in a dozen countries...None of them ... require faithfulness to any other religious, ethnic or social group. | 16/10/2010 |
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The judges of the Deportation Service | | Gideon Spiro - Red Rag, Weekly Column, "To the Honourable Dorit Beinish, Asher Grunis, Neal Handel Judges of the Supreme Court, Rami Amir, Judge of the Central District Court" | 15/10/2010 |
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Israel`s right needs perpetual war | | By Zeev Sternhell--The facts must be acknowledged: The heads of the rightist parties have a strategic outlook and the ability to take the long view, and they also know how to choose the right tools to carry out their mission. | 17/10/2010 |
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Israeli MP: Ahmadinejad Must Not Leave Lebanon Alive | | Jason Ditz - Antiwar.com - To assassinate Ahmadinejad today is like assassinating Hitler in 1939, he insisted, adding that he must not return home alive. Ahmadinejad is planning to visit a Shiite mosque not far from the border in Southern Lebanon, a replica of the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and might well be in range of Israeli snipers during the visit.
| 14/10/2010 |
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A Special Place in Hell / Top 10 worst errors Israel is about to make | | Bradley Burston - Haaretz - Making major mistakes: what they are, why they matter, where they stand, and what you can do about it.
| 14/10/2010 |
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EU police mission complicit in Israeli, PA rights abuses | | David Cronin - The Electronic Intifada - Contrary to the impression frequently created by news stories, the PA does not have a police force that can justifiably be viewed as independent of Israel. Under the Oslo accords from the 1990s, the PA was given full responsibility for security in a region dubbed "Area A." This comprises six West Bank cities -- Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarem and Bethlehem -- and part of Hebron. In Area B -- other towns and villages, where 68 percent of Palestinian inhabitants in the West Bank lived -- the authority was tasked with maintaining public order but Israel was allowed "overriding" responsibility for security. Then in Area C -- 62 percent of the West Bank, including Jewish-only settlements and other areas deemed of "strategic importance" to Israel -- total control over security remained in Israeli hands. | 13/10/2010 |
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What Does a `One State Solution` Really Mean? | | ALAIN GRESH - Counterpunch - such a project could only come about through the Palestinians making common cause among themselves, and among some significant part of Israels Jewish population. The example of South Africa is often mentioned. But beyond the question of whether Israel is or is not an apartheid state, the South African model was made possible because the African National Congress (ANC), through its alliance with the Communist party, had a white base; it also adapted its language and combat methods to the will to build a rainbow nation to avoid the exodus of the white population experienced by Angola and Mozambique. It made only limited use of terrorism for fear of alienating support, especially among the white community (19). The ANC, while uncompromising on the principle of one man, one woman, one vote, also knew how to take into account the fears of the white and mixed race communities and offered them firm guarantees.
| 13/10/2010 |
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The Smell of Apartheid: Israel`s Citizenship Law | | Yacov Ben Efrat - Challenge - In fact, behind this amendment there is a hidden message regarding a debate sparked some five years ago between representatives of the Arab population and the state. The conflict began when former Knesset member Azmi Bishara set up a party under the slogan A state for all its citizens, which opened the way for Arab parties and institutions to challenge the state and expose the structural contradiction in its self-definition as Jewish and democratic. This philosophical clash between the Arab minority and the state served to oil the wheels of Avigdor Lieberman, today Israels foreign minister, whose party won 15 seats in the last general elections with its slogan No citizenship without loyalty.
| 13/10/2010 |
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I Pledge Allegiance to What? | | Joharah Baker - MIFTAH - The racist nature of the law is nothing new for Israel. The only difference today is that they are blatantly clear about it, much to the thanks of Israels caricature-like foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, the man behind the initiative. Since Israel was established in 1948, Palestinians living on both sides of the Green Line have endured racist and discriminatory measures against them because of their ethnicity. Until today, Palestinians in Jerusalem must continually prove their center of life is in the city in order to maintain their residency status in the city. | 13/10/2010 |
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His Fathers Boy | | Uri Avnery -
Antiwar -
"The real Netanyahu stand up!"..."If the real Netanyahu were called to stand up, all three, and perhaps a few more, would rise. But the third one is the most real."
| 13/10/2010 |
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Israel`s other "peace" plan: arm-twisting Obama | | Jonathan Cook -
EI -
""The Israeli government was given the choice between peace and settlements, and it has chosen settlements," the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said last Friday." | 13/10/2010 |
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Chronicles of peace or epitaphs of failure | | GERSHON BASKIN -
J-Post -
"Neither Abbas nor Netanyahu is worthy of being called a leader, nor are the Americans worthy of being called effective mediators."
| 13/10/2010 |
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The ethnic cleansing plan | | Ahmad Tibi -
Ynet -
"...Israel is indeed Jewish and democratic democratic to the Jews, and Jewish to the Arabs." | 13/10/2010 |
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Week 2262 of Occupation | | Daniel Breslau - Occupation Magazine - Nothing to talk about - A prisoner of conscience is sentenced | 13/10/2010 |
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What a ridiculous move | | Dov Weissglass - Ynet - When a new citizen is required to recognize Israel as a "Jewish state", what exactly is expected of him? What is he pledging? To admit to the existence of a Jewish majority in Israel? To support the majority`s right to maintain a Jewish life? Or is he expected to actively work towards preserving the Jewish majority? And how so? Should he convert? [These are the words - not from a bleeding heart leftie but - from former PM Sharon`s confidential adviser-ed] | 12/10/2010 |
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Meridor: This isn’t the Israel we know | | Attila Somfalvi - Ynet - This is not a security matter. The government is responsible for all citizens and it`s wrong to create the perception that they are not part of the state on one hand, and demand loyalty on the other - that`s a contradiction. [Likud`s Dan Meridor is Minister of Intelligence Services. bz]
"This is the Jewish people` state. We`ve inscribed that in our Basic Laws. Do we really have to keep repeating it? It creates detrimental tensions," he said. | 12/10/2010 |
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Israel`s loyalty oath: Discriminatory by design | | The Guardian, Editorial - New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians | 11/10/2010 |
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How good news became bad for Gaza | | Donald Macintyre - The Independent - Israel eased the trade embargo - but it`s bringing some Palestinian businesses to their knees | 11/10/2010 |
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Negotiating One`s Demise - An Evaporating Palestine | | Rannie Amiri - CounterPunch - "It is remarkable that those representing the Palestinian people would waiver in the slightest about quitting the talks in the face of ongoing land seizure. If this is not a red line, what is?" | 11/10/2010 |
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The Jewish Republic of Israel | | Gideon Levy - Haaretz - Swearing an oath to a Jewish state will decide its fate. It is liable to turn the country into a theocracy like Saudi Arabia | 11/10/2010 |
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An inherently humiliating definition | | Chaim Gans - Haaretz - The consciousness of Jewish ownership of the entire Land of Israel, will continue to push Israel`s policies to the edge of lunacy, and there is a genuine danger that it will lead to the loss of Israel as an embodiment of the Jewish people`s right to self-determination. But that`s our problem, that of the Jews; it`s not the Arabs` problem.
The Arabs` problem is that for them to recognize Israel`s Jewishness under this interpretation means acceptance of their inferior status in the Land of Israel, to the point that they could even be expelled from it.
bz | 9/10/2010 |
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John Mearsheimer on the State of the Israel Lobby [Fall, 2010] | | Interview with John Mearsheimer Video-
Journal of Palestine Studies
"Cla Thouin, assistant editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies, interviews John Mearsheimer on "The State of the Israel Lobby and Obama"
| 8/10/2010 |
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Re-trial Begins In The Case Of Rachel Corrie, Killed By Israeli Forces In `03 | | by Saed Bannoura -
IMEMC News
"On Thursday morning, the District Court of Haifa began the re-trial of a case they had concluded in March: an Israeli judge ruled that the Court should hear further evidence about Rachel Corrie who was killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer in 2003." | 8/10/2010 |
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Israel losing its appeal for Jews | | Saleh Al-Naami -
Al-Ahram Weekly
"Signs are strong that Israel could collapse from within as support amongst the Jewish Diaspora wanes dramatically." | 8/10/2010 |
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Obamafs Balfour Declaration | | By Hasan Abu Nimah -
The Jordan Times
"As Netanyahu showed he was true to his word and would not extend the "freeze", the Americans became desperate. The Obama administration apparently offered Israel unprecedented promises and guarantees in exchange for virtually nothing." | 8/10/2010 |
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Judge Bars Major Witness From Terrorism Trial | | BENJAMIN WEISER - The New York Times - A federal judge barred prosecutors on Wednesday from using a crucial witness in the first trial of a former Guantnamo detainee, adding to the fierce debate over whether the government can successfully prosecute terrorist detainees in civilian court. The trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who faces charges in the 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa, has been seen as a test of President Obamas goal of moving many other detainees, like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, into federal court and, ultimately, closing Guantnamo.
| 7/10/2010 |
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Untenurable: The Firing of Ariella Azoulay | | Neve Gordon - Countercurrents - Last month, Bar Ilan decided to deny Azoulays bid for tenure, effectively firing her. While the protocols of the university committees that reached this pitiful decision have not been made public, Azoulays curriculum vitae and academic accomplishments are on the web, and anyone who is familiar with academic promotion procedures can readily see that the universitys verdict is illogical. But, then again, maybe matters are more complicated; maybe there is a method to the madness. | 7/10/2010 |
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Israeli court welcomes pre-1948 land claims, from Jewish Israelis only | | Jesse Bacon - The Only Democracy - It has been pointed out repeatedly, but now its official, the Israeli Supreme Court will accept your pre-1948 claim, if you are Jewish that is. In one of those cases that is a testament to presumably intelligent peoples ability to ignore the larger implications of their actions, the court has been ruling that Jews who left East Jerusalem during the founding of the state of Israel/ Palestinian Nakba/ Catastrophe have a right of return. I hope there are Palestinian refugees filing similar court cases, as many more of them were dispossessed during that time. I would love to hear an Israeli court explain why the Jewish Israelis claims are more valid.
| 6/10/2010 |
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The Dangers Of Recognition: Lieberman Speaks For All Of Israel | | Jonathan Cook - Countercurrents - Netanyahu clearly does not simply want the fact of Israel`s existence acknowledged. That is in no doubt and, anyway, the Israeli state has been recognised by the Palestinian leadership since the late 1980s. It is recognition of the state`s Jewishness, not its existence, that matters. | 6/10/2010 |
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Netanyahu`s Freeze Scam | | Henry Siegman - The Nation - Palestinians have made a concession to Israel that is unprecedented: in 1988 the PLO agreed formally to recognize the legitimacy of Israeli sovereignty within the 1967 armistice border, an area that includes fully half the territory that, as indicated above, had been recognized as the legitimate patrimony of Palestinian Arabs in the UN Partition Plan. This reduced the Palestinians` territory from 43 to 22 percent of Palestine while enlarging Israel`s territory from 56 to 78 percent. | 6/10/2010 |
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Risks and Advantages in U.S. Effort in Mideast | | MARK LANDLER -
NYT -
"There is a desire by both parties to woo the party that is not in the room, said David Makovsky, an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Both want to get the support of the U.S."
| 6/10/2010 |
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Our Man in Palestine | | Nathan Thrall - New York Review of Books - “Fayyad sets an arbitrary date and says, ‘Okay, now all of you break your heads if you want to avoid a catastrophe,’” Herzog said. “What he did is very risky but also very smart.” [Mike Herzog is former chief of staff to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.] | 5/10/2010 |
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Israels Arab Citizens Are Not a Negotiating Chip | | Jonathan Cook -m AntiWar - "If the Palestinian president does recognize Israel as a Jewish state, the campaign by Israels Palestinian citizens to reform their country into a true democracy will be over. Netanyahu will have Palestinian backing to label the reformers a fifth column and expel them to the slivers of West Bank territory he may intend to call a Palestinian state. In the meantime, he will also have Palestinian permission to institute a loyalty drive of the kind already being advanced through the Israeli parliament" | 4/10/2010 |
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Unmaking War, Remaking men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers And Ourselves | | Press Release--Amidst all of the war news that saturates our lives, Kathleen Barry`s new book answers the question "Is war inevitable?" with an empathic "No!" And she offers a way out. Revealing how, in demilitarized states, violence against women persists at high levels, Barry, a sociologist, turns to men and shows how they are made expendable for war. She then asks what is required for men to remake themselves, to disengage from "core masculinity," the socialized expectation of men as protections and aggressors. | 3/10/2010 |
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The Impending Collapse Of Israel In Palestine [by the JPLO List] | | Francis A. Boyle--In fact, Israel has never been a State but just an Army masquerading as a State -- a Potemkin Village of a State. Israel is the archetypal Great Band of Robbers described by St. Augustine in Book 4, Chapter 4 of The City of God: | 3/10/2010 |
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Defining `Jewish state`: For many, term has different meanings | | Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer--Describing Israel as a "Jewish state" may seem like standard boilerplate in the United States, often used in newspaper articles and television programs. But words can carry deep meanings - especially in Middle East diplomacy.
| 3/10/2010 |
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Do settlers care about us? | | Yair Lapid--And if the settlers have a problem with these Israelis, they have a real problem. Because these Israelis, who are Zionistic, Jewish, and hold national feelings are starting to feel that this is happening at their expense. They are not angry at the settlers, yet gradually they are being overcome by the feeling that the entire settlement enterprise is costing them too much. | 3/10/2010 |
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Whats Behind The Demolition of Al-Arakib: Netanyahus and Aharonovichs Battle | | Prof. Gadi Algazi analyzes the greater context: "Al-Arakib is like a bone in the throat of those who are keen to redesign the whole northern Negev. Fine, alright, we`ve got no choice, so we`ll give recognition to a few Bedouin villages but almost always on very difficult, if not impossible, terms. Recognition on the condition that they move elsewhere, that they leave their land and blend in with another Bedouin community. We plan for you: We engineer the landscape, we put together and tear apart people and communities, we - the , architects of settlement and internal colonization." ao | 2/10/2010 |
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Arab League may bring settlement freeze debate to UN | | By Shlomo Shamir -
Haaretz
"in Cairo on Wednesday, Arab states will consider initiating an emergency Security Council session on Israel`s refusal to renew West Bank " | 1/10/2010 |
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Red Rag weekly column | | Gideon Spiro - can a fascist be idealistic? Triumph of Islamophobia - An Israeli story - Criminals | 1/10/2010 |
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Avi Dichters Spanish Self-Expulsion, 1492/2010 | | Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - Israeli MK, Avi Dichter faced his own self-induced expulsion from Spain recently after he was invited by a Spanish NGO to address a conference about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. When the Spanish justice ministry informed him that it could not guarantee him immunity from arrest for his role in the Salah Shehade murders and Operation Cast Lead, he angrily cancelled his trip, thus expelling himself from Spain before he even arrived.
| 28/10/2010 |
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Will Fatah choose reconciliation or collaboration? | | Raja Abdulhaq - The Electronic Intifada - It is very clear that if Fatah decides to halt its work with the Israeli army, the US and other donors will cut off financial aid to the PA. This leaves Fatah leaders in a critical position where they must choose between returning to the national Palestinian camp, or remaining on good terms with Israel and its occupation army.
| 27/10/2010 |
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Forget the Details, its all about the Land | | Joharah Baker - MIFTAH - The Palestinian-Israeli conflict may seem unbelievably complicated to most an endless web of historical narratives, emotional claims and bitter pasts but it all comes down to a simple premise: the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about land, plain and simple.
| 27/10/2010 |
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Mystery and `Why can`t they deport me, instead?` | | Adam Keller -
Crazy Country -
"Indeed, it is also quite possible that the mosque was torched by aliens who arrived during the night in a spaceship from Mars." | 6/10/2010 |
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Obama’s cave-in to Israel: letter suggests US not honest broker | | Jonathan Cook - Redress Information & Analysis - “...without the Jordan Valley, the creation of a viable Palestinian state ... would be inconceivable. Statehood would instead resemble the Swiss-cheese model the Palestinians have long feared is all Israel is proposing.” bz
| 5/10/2010 |
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Arab League meet haunted by memory of 2000 talks | | Jonathan Cook - uruknet.info - Rather than investing wasted energy in doomed talks, the two sides appear to be adopting the same alternative strategy: cutting a deal directly with Washington that circumvents the other party.
| 12/10/2010 |
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Can the OECD stand up to Israel? | | Sam Bahour and Charles Shamas - guardian.co.uk - At Israel`s invitation, the 86th session of the OECD tourism committee will take place in Jerusalem on 20 and 21 October to discuss supporting a sustainable and competitive tourism industry for the benefit of the members` economies. Despite OECD efforts to the contrary, photographs of touristic sites in occupied territory have been incorporated in a website that Israel has constructed under OECD auspices.
| 12/10/2010 |
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Kahane`s vision for loyalty oath was not so different than Barak`s | | By Chaim Levinson -
Haaretz
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Late extremist rabbi proposed every non-Jew wishing to become a naturalized Israeli would have to pledge to `the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence."
| 15/10/2010 |
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PAs challenge to Israel: Set your borders | | by Ira Glunts -
Mondoweiss
"The Palestinian Authority (PA) has offered to recognize Israel by whatever name it applies to itself in accordance with international law in exchange for a map of the borders of the state of Israel which they want us to recognize. This according to senior Palestinian official,Yasser Abed Rabbo, in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP)."
| 15/10/2010 |
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Red Rag Weekly Column | | Gideon Spiro - Judges of the Deportation Service - Dr. Strangelove - Another step towards fascism | 15/10/2010 |
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No to a third intifada | | Hussein Ibish - Common Ground News - The prospect of a breakdown again raises the spectre of another intifada, since many Palestinians may conclude that the occupation is either permanent or that diplomacy is simply an ineffective tool in resolving it and that a new uprising is the only remaining way to pressure Israel.
| 14/10/2010 |
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Israel has no future as a purely Jewish state | | Adrian Hamilton - The Independent - There`s simply no point under these circumstances in pursuing peace negotiations. There isn`t the basis on which an Israeli government of this hue would accept let alone support a separate Palestinian state. Which is what most Palestinians and Arabs already conclude. But, under pressure from the US, they feel they have no choice but to persist in the fiction of a possible settlement, just as Netanyahu, also under pressure from Washington, feels that he can`t dismiss the talks outright | 14/10/2010 |
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PLO Responds To Israeli Demand Of `Jewish State` Recognition: `Show US The Map Of Your Borders` | | IMEMC - Abed Rabbo told the Palestinian news agency Ma`an News, "Israel is an unknown entity in terms of borders [so] how does it suggest we recognize it as a Jewish state? Israel and the US should first set out Israel`s borders". The state of Israel has never declared its borders since its creation in 1948, and has continually expanded its territory with military force into neighboring Palestinian Territories | 14/10/2010 |
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