Commentary
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Title | | Description | Date |
3G in Palestine: Too little, too late? | | Daoud Kuttab - AlJazeera - What`s really behind Israel`s decision to allow Palestinians in the West Bank to have 3G services [ry] | 30/11/2015 |
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Along the Divide | | Nathan Thrall--Israel is now confronted by the greatest unrest it has faced since the second intifada ended more than ten years ago. Palestinian protests and clashes with Israeli forces have spread from East Jerusalem to the rest of the West Bank, as well as to Gaza and Palestinian towns inside Israel. In the first three weeks of October, ten Israelis were killed and more than a hundred injured in stabbings and shootings, and by drivers ramming cars into pedestrians. Over the same period, Israeli forces killed 53 Palestinians and injured around two thousand. Compared to the second intifada, the protests this month have been smaller, the influence of Palestinian political factions weaker, and the attacks far less lethal. But they have been coming more frequently, with several of them, unco-ordinated, on most days. dn | 29/11/2015 |
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Nobody is coming to end the occupation | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man--The Americans are disengaging from the conflict, the EU won’t go beyond half-measures, and the Palestinian Authority is on the verge of implosion. So what happens next? dn | 29/11/2015 |
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Israel’s Open Season on ‘Arabs’ | | Jeremy Salt--Sometimes it must be such fun to be an Israeli undercover agent especially if you like amateur theatricals and perhaps thought of an acting career but were not quite good enough and had to settle for something less. You get drama and excitement without the element of danger to yourself. You can dress up as an ‘Arab’ and storm into ‘Arab’ homes on the West Bank to terrorize families and shoot dead teenagers. You have to put up with sobbing mothers and screaming children, but so what, they are all terrorists or will grow up to be one. You can storm into a hospital to kidnap and kill. Not a gun in sight except yours: nothing but wards, patients, bandages, cupboards full of medical equipment and a few orderlies wandering around in a green smock. You could actually walk into the hospital in uniform in the middle of the day and no-one could stop you, but at the Ahli hospital in Hebron you do it at 3am, wearing kuffiyas, false beards glued to your chin and a Muslim skullcap stuck on your head. Your act is an unconvincing as a poor quality high school play.dn | 29/11/2015 |
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Shot for flying a flag in Gaza | | Charlotte Silver--For the past six weeks, the boundary between Gaza and Israel has been a deadly place for Palestinians. Israeli forces killed at least 16 Palestinians during protests in that area between 1 October and 6 November.dn | 29/11/2015 |
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Oslo is dead, but what`s next? | | Geoffrey Aronson--This is not for the first time Washington is behind the curve, and therefore aiming at the wrong target. Netanyahu is weighing a number of options, but none of them are in the least concerned with "strengthening Abu Mazen" - the poisonous mantra that in one of history`s cruel twists of fate - has all but emptied the Palestinian Authority (PA) of its original promise. dn | 29/11/2015 |
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We are SORRY --A Message from the Muslim World to Paris | | A Muslim--What happened in Paris last night was awful. I stayed up late following the news in disbelief and I am so sorry to anyone who has been affected by these horrible attacks. The international community has responded, as predicted, by showing their unwavering solidarity with Paris.
The night before that, a bomb went off in my country, Lebanon, killing 43 people. No one prayed for us. No one kept us in their thoughts. No world leaders made late-night statements about us. No one changed their profile pictures. There was no hashtag. No option to be "marked as safe" by Facebook. Just silence. dn
| 28/11/2015 |
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Treating Pollard Cruelly? Look What We Do to Vanunu | | Kobi Niv--The ability of the creature called man to look in the mirror and not see himself is truly amazing. For decades, the Israeli media have complained about the “cruelty” with which the U.S. administration and legal authorities have allegedly treated the man fondly nicknamed here “the Jewish spy” – Jonathan Pollard. . . .
So now, in a land not far far away, in fact right here, in the same Israel Pollard yearns for, lives another Jew (based on Jewish law), an Israeli not an American. He’s named Mordechai Vanunu, also known by the notorious nickname “the atomic spy.” If anything the Americans have done or are doing to Pollard can be called “cruelty,” then what we’ve done and are doing to Vanunu is the mother of all cruelty times 77. dn
| 28/11/2015 |
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Teaching peace during times of war | | David Lehrer--I am not naïve enough to think that peace will be made by people-to-people NGOs like the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies.
Peace will ultimately be made by courageous visionary leaders, not the small-minded cowardly politicians who currently occupy government offices in Jerusalem and Ramallah and who use fear and hate to hold on to their power. dn
| 28/11/2015 |
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Democracy, the High Court and punitive home demolitions | | Frances Raday -
+972
"Quiz 1: If this is not a matter of human rights, as Israeli
politicians claim, then what is? Is the demolition of a home not a
criminal penalty? As such, does it not require a fair trial of the
accused and conviction of all who are to be punished, including each
parent and all siblings? Are Arab parents more responsible for the
murderous misbehavior of their offspring than Jewish parents? Has
anyone considered punishing Yigal Amir‘s mother or Baruch
Goldstein’s parents as a deterrent for the growing phenomenon of
Jewish terrorism? Are our politicians unaware that their very own
Defense Ministry concluded that efficacy of house demolitions as a
counter-terrorism tool is questionable and hence should not be
employed?" ca | 27/11/2015 |
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Thanksgiving - More Than a Turkey Dinner | | Lawrence Ware -
ICH
"Let’s be honest: every year on the last Thursday of November, we
celebrate the beginning of a European invasion that ends with the
death or relocation of millions of native people. While many have
tried to redefine the meaning of Thanksgiving into a time when we
cultivate a sense of gratitude, the undeniable truth is that the
blood of native people stains the genesis of the holiday." ca | 26/11/2015 |
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Violence, Moral Equivalence, and the End of a Two-State Solution in Israel-Palestine | | Henry Siegman -
The Nation
"A full-page advertisement in the New York Times of November 14
accuses Secretary of State John Kerry of anti-Semitism. The accuser
is a Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who has designated himself as nothing
less than “America’s Rabbi.” He ministers to the spiritual needs of
the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who finances the organization
headed by Boteach in whose name the ad was placed." ca | 26/11/2015 |
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Pollard and Vanunu: A tale of two spies | | Akiva Eldar - Al-Monitor - Like Pollard, even after Vanunu served his entire sentence, he was considered a ticking time bomb of secrets. He, too, was prohibited contact with the media and permission to leave the country. Although it has been more than a decade since Vanunu`s release, and almost 30 years since he was jailed, he is still not a free man. This is where the similarity between the two convicted felons ends.-rh
| 25/11/2015 |
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Violence, Moral Equivalence, and the End of a Two-State Solution in Israel-Palestine | | Henry Siegman - The Nation - A slanderous ad in The New York Times accusing John Kerry of anti-Semitism could only have drawn its inspiration from the PR skills of Joseph Goebbels.-rh | 25/11/2015 |
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The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future | | Henry A. Giroux and Brad Evans - truthout - The seeds of terrorism do not lie simply in ideological fundamentalism; they also lie in conditions of oppression, war, racism, poverty, the abandonment of entire generations of Palestinian youth, the dictatorships that stifle young people in the Middle East and the racist assaults on Black youth in urban centers in the United States.-rh | 25/11/2015 |
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Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and Rhetoric is no Recipe for Peace | | Robert Fisk - Information Clearing House - Our reaction? All rhetoric, of course, brought about by our ignorance, our refusal to understand the injustices of the Middle East, our idleness in addressing conflict with political plans and objectives. If we could apply the “whoa, boy” advice today, it must be with an entirely new approach to the cult mafia that exists in the Middle East.-rh | 25/11/2015 |
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Transnational legal actions threaten to end Israeli impunity | | Sagiv Galai - Mondoweiss - We cannot predict whether these cases will trigger anything more significant than consternation and rebuke from Israeli spokespersons, but it remains obvious that these cases developing outside of Israeli courts would not have been possible if solidarity activists did not leverage their privileged possession of foreign passports and attempted to utilize international courts in trigger concerns of Universal Jurisdiction and global accountability for war crimes.-rh | 25/11/2015 |
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Magical Thinking about Isis | | Adam Shatz - London Review of Books - Recognition as a war combatant is not IS’s only strategic gain. It has also spread panic, and pushed France further along the road to civil strife. (...) What most of the jihadis appear to have in common is a lack of any serious religious training: according to most studies, there is an inverse relationship between Muslim piety and attraction to jihad. As Olivier Roy, the author of several books on political Islam, recently said, ‘this is not so much the radicalisation of Islam as the Islamicisation of radicalism.’ [bz] | 24/11/2015 |
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How Israel uses its ‘security needs’ to justify discrimination | | Ben White - The National - "A law that separates Palestinian spouses to protect Israel’s `Jewish majority`; a blockade of Gaza that constitutes collective punishment and a wall used to advance a land grab. As these three examples demonstrate, Israel uses the `security` excuse to defend and advance discrimination and colonisation. How much longer will the international community buy it?" [ry] | 23/11/2015 |
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US foreign policy failure in the Middle East | | Richard Falk - AIC - Why has American foreign policy in the Middle East been such a dismal failure? [ry] | 23/11/2015 |
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WATCH: How the far-right glorifies killing of Palestinians | | Mairav Zonszein -
+972 -
"Murder is not a means to an end, it has become the end. And all of the above is mediated through images and videos that people can watch, manipulate and share as they wish. This of course is done by both Israelis and Palestinians. But let’s not forget who has the army, the right to carry weapons, and the monopoly on the use of force." - id
| 25/11/2015 |
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IJAN Statement on Attacks in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad, Yola and Kano | | IJAN--The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network condemns without question the horrible crimes perpetrated in the last days, the ones the mass media has made visible, as in France, and the ones it has refused to see in Lebanon, Iraq and Nigeria, and as ever, in Palestine. We reject these criminal operations – whoever is responsible. And we stand with the people, the innocent victims of these crimes.dn | 22/11/2015 |
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To Understand What `To Neutralize` Means, Look at This Broken Palestinian Man | | Gideon Levy and Alex Levac--A young Palestinian participates in a tumultuous demonstration, Israeli undercover men knock him to the ground and shoot him point-blank. The result: Mohammed Ziada, 19, is partly paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. dn | 22/11/2015 |
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How Israel pressures BBC into changing headlines | | Amena Saleem--In a rare burst of reporting on an Israeli atrocity, the BBC ran an article on its website headlined: “Israelis shoot dead Palestinian in Hebron hospital raid.”
It was a straightforward headline which summed up the story. But later in the day, a different headline appeared above the report, reading: “Israelis in disguise raid Hebron hospital, seizing suspect.” dn
| 22/11/2015 |
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How banning Islamic Movement betrays Israel`s democracy | | Akiva Eldar - Al Monitor, Israel Pulse - Jewish clerics who do not accept the authority of the law are not brought before a judge. Arab inciters are deemed outside the law. Jewish inciters are above the law. [bz] | 21/11/2015 |
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In Dealing With Terrorism, France Mustn`t Look to Israel for Answers | | Eva Illouz - Haaretz - Should France follow Israel’s securitist path, where securitism is a doctrine in which guaranteeing maximum national security replaces diplomatic initiatives and foreign policy, and ultimately trumps human rights and democratic values? [bz] | 21/11/2015 |
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Paris, Fear, and Repetition | | Lucy Steigerwald -
Atiwar.com
"The strange contradiction about America’s staunchest defenders is
that they so often seem perfectly willing to sacrifice the country’s
best ideals in order to enhance their own safety. And they’re not
really doing so particularly." ca | 20/11/2015 |
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6 Painful Truths About the War on Terrorism | | Dylan Charles -
Information Clearing House
"The goal of the war on terror is transform people into willing
participants in chaos, mayhem and murder, or to turn them into
collateral damage. Nobody is born a terrorist, and we are all being
set up as dispensable pawns in an orchestrated clash of
civilizations.
The truth is out there. When you cut through the propaganda,
emotional triggers, and the divisive nature of discourse today,
what’s left is the truth that the war on terror is something that we
must end. The rise in global consciousness and our willingness to
speak out may be our only hope." ca
| 20/11/2015 |
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Invisible victims | | James Zogby -
Al-Ahram Weekly
"Palestinians are victims, invisible victims. It is this history of
abuse to which they have been subjected. The anger and despair it
has fostered has led the very young to act out as they have. Their
desperate actions are deplorable and should not be celebrated.They
should instead set off alarm bells causing us to reflect on how we
in the West have contributed to their anger and despair by ignoring
them for so long.Netanyahu should not have been hosted and feted in
Washington. Rather, he should have been called out by policymakers
for his behaviour. Until that occurs, nothing will change.
Palestinians will remain invisible victims and denied their rights,
and peace will remain as elusive as ever." ca
| 20/11/2015 |
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Red Cross Backs Palestinian Paramedics in Controversy Over West Bank Murders | | JTA - Forward - “A PRCS’ team arrived at the scene and started providing First Aid to the wounded. A few minutes later, two Israeli ambulances, one belonging to the Israeli army and another from Magen David Adom, arrived at the scene,” the statement said. “The ambulances’ teams headed towards the wounded persons, brandishing their weapons. Given that Israeli paramedics had arrived and were providing medical care to casualties, PRCS’ team left the scene which they felt had become unsafe.”-rh
| 18/11/2015 |
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Misusing Hard Data To Paint Palestinians As Irrational Animals | | Dahlia Scheindlin - Forward - Polisar portrays Palestinians as holding an irrational, “demonic” and “diabolical” image of Israel, because a majority fears that Israel wishes to annex all the occupied territories and to expel the Palestinians. Where would they get such an idea? One might think Palestinians woke up in Switzerland one day and decided to hate us. Israelis often remind one another, “We don’t live in Switzerland” — but apparently Polisar expects Palestinians to behave as if they do.-rh
| 18/11/2015 |
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Shadows of Algeria: the Lost Context of the Paris Attacks | | Robert Fisk - Counterpunch - Whenever the West is attacked and our innocents are killed, we usually wipe the memory bank. Thus, when reporters told us that the 129 dead in Paris represented the worst atrocity in France since the Second World War, they failed to mention the 1961 Paris massacre of up to 200 Algerians participating in an illegal march against France’s savage colonial war in Algeria. Most were murdered by the French police, many were tortured in the Palais des Sports and their bodies thrown into the Seine.-rh | 18/11/2015 |
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No, Israel, You Are Not Paris | | Michael Greenberger - Forward - But to frame Israel as a victim to the same violence — motivated by religious extremism — that claimed the lives of over 120 people in Paris, is to suggest that the Israeli government is politically blameless, and to exonerate Israel from all guilt in the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.-rh
| 18/11/2015 |
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Netanyahu: `In Israel, as in France, terror is terror` | | Akiva Eldar -
Al Monitor -
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the perpetrators of the Paris attacks and those attacking Israelis are the same — terrorists determined to kill those who are not part of extreme Islam." - id
| 18/11/2015 |
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Outlawing the Islamic Movement is a gift to Palestinian citizens | | Rami Younis -
+972 -
"This is yet another McCarthyist decision brought to you by the Zionist establishment, both its left and right wing. And while the Palestinian leadership in Israel is busy condemning the decision, a closer look shows that the security cabinet’s decision is nothing less than a gift to the Palestinian public in Israel." - id
| 18/11/2015 |
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The Terrorist Grandmother, the Terrorist Child and Harry Potter | | Adam Keller -
Crazy Country -
"“It`s not an intifada." Defense Minister Moshe Ya`alon insists...What is clear is that Palestinians in increasing numbers, regardless of gender and age and social background, are rising up against the Israeli occupation which is quickly approaching its fiftieth anniversary." - id
| 18/11/2015 |
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Obama gives up on the Middle East, Netanyahu gives up on peace | | Yacov Ben Efrat -
Challenge -
"In his appearances at different forums in the United States, Netanyahu once again explained why it is not feasible to establish a Palestinian state and why Israel needs a permanent military presence in the West Bank." - id
| 18/11/2015 |
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IMAGINE A THANKSGIVING OF REAL PEACE: PAIX, SALAAM, SHALOM | | Eileen Fleming -
The Arab Daily News -
"In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. warned: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence…The chain reaction of evil –hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars –must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." - id | 18/11/2015 |
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Outlawing the Islamic Movement - a demagogic and anti-democratic move, harmful in every respect | | Gush Shalom - Prime Minister Netanyahu has taken advantage of the atmosphere of hysteria following the atrocity in Paris, in order to take an ill-considered step and gain cheap immediate popularity among a frightened and confused public, at the expense of incurring serious long-term damage. Historical experience in many times and places has shown that when a government gets away with outlawing one political movement, there would follow acts of oppression also towards other movements and parties. ak | 17/11/2015 |
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Destruction of al-Aqsa is no conspiracy theory | | Ilan Pappe - EI - “’It is useless,’ asserts the colonizer in Albert Memmi’s classical tract, The Colonizer and the Colonized, ‘to try and forecast the colonized’s actions (‘they are unpredictable! ‘With them, you never know!).’ It seems to the colonizer that ‘strange and disturbing impulsiveness controls the colonized.’ The only explanation official Israel and its supporters could give for why Palestinians have risen up lately is that they were influenced by Islamic propaganda” [ry] | 16/11/2015 |
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Steven Salaita: I Will Always Condemn Injustice, No Matter the State of My Employment | | Steven Salaita--The embattled professor reflects on the trials of free speech, Zionism, and what it means to reach a settlement. dn | 15/11/2015 |
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Diaspora Jews offer a rare chance for hope in the Middle East | | Jonathan Freedland--Diasporas can be trouble. Whether it was the German-Americans who agitated to keep the United States out of the war against Hitler, the Irish-Americans who bankrolled the IRA’s “armed struggle”, or the Cuban-Americans who lobbied to keep the US shackled to a pointless embargo of the island, émigré communities have a chequered record when it comes to the influencing of foreign policy.dn | 15/11/2015 |
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Netanyahu’s transfer plan is met with silent complicity | | Yehudit Oppenheimer--The prime minister’s proposal to revoke the residency status of 100,000 East Jerusalemites sends an unequivocal message to all Arabs living under Israeli rule: your rights are rooted in our good will alone, and conditionally so. The silence of Israel’s ‘democratic’ camp is deafening. dn | 15/11/2015 |
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Israel need not worry about Justin Trudeau | | Antonia Zerbisias--Stephen Harper may have left the building but when it comes to Israel, he haunts us still.dn | 15/11/2015 |
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Walking to their death: The new child terrorists [not terrorists but freedom fighters] | | Ronni Shaked--Walking towards one`s death in the current wave of terror, on the other hand, stems from despair and loss of hope. The helpless Palestinian society supports the acts of the young stabbers and mainly honors them in the funerals, but it can`t even give them the hope of the shahid in heaven which the myth promises. dn | 14/11/2015 |
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Attacks on Palestinian hospitals are a red line we must not cross | | Haggai Matar--The next time Palestinians hide weapons in a civilian ambulance, the next time a stabber disguises himself as a journalist, the next time Palestinians shoot rockets from near a United Nations building, remember that officers from Israel’s Yamam (Special Police Unit) disguised themselves as a woman in labor on a wheelchair entering a hospital in Hebron in order to arrest a wounded suspect and kill his relative. dn | 14/11/2015 |
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What Obama Should Have Told Bibi - And also the World Jewish Congress | | Philip Giraldi -
Information Clearing House
"And how to fix things? Lauder claims that Netanyahu has “the
greatness, the vision and the courage to move this relationship
forward on a positive path.” Sure. And pigs have wings. Let’s face
it Ron, Bibi is quite likely clinically insane. Even many Israelis
are saying so, though they still vote for him based on his
government’s relentlessly implemented and self-fulfilling program of
inciting fear of Arabs.For what it’s worth, this is what I propose
Obama should have said to Bibi but didn’t, with a transcript of the
conversation also faxed over to Ron Lauder at the World Jewish
Congress: (read! read!)" ca
| 13/11/2015 |
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Netanyahu`s Overtures Come Too Little, Too Late | | Ari Shavit -
Haaretz
"What happened to Israel in recent years is disastrous. The country
is on a collision course with the winds of time. This collision is
more dangerous than a collision with an iceberg. From a certain
point on, Netanyahu’s arguments are no longer heard, even if they
are spectacular. From a certain point on, he’s not treated as
legitimate, even when he’s absolutely right. Since he’s seen as a
fossil from another era, he has become anachronistic,irrelevant and
tedious. Then, one day, the family of nations vomits him out.
Suddenly, the winds of time blow him over. After long years of
saying “no big deal” and “not so bad,” the bottom of the boat breaks
apart and Netanyahu finds himself in the frozen water of ostracism."
ca
| 13/11/2015 |
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Red Rag column: Netanyahu and the Mufti - Palestinian Grynszpans? - One-State solution | | Gideon Spiro - Imagine a declaration to the effect that we should look
at Eichmann in a new light. He was not a Jew-hater, but an army
officer who had to obey orders, just as we demand of our soldiers. In
cases when he could exercise discretion, he showed himself to be a
friend of the Jewish people and saved Jews, as he did with Israel
Kastner’s train full of selected passengers. A lie along the lines of
“Hitler and the Mufti”. gm | 12/11/2015 |
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Hillary Clinton Is No Friend of Israel | | Gideon Levy - Information Clearing House - What happened to the Hillary Rodham Clinton who in her youth fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, and as a lawyer specialized in children’s rights? Did she not hear what her dream state is doing to Palestinian children? What happened to the glorious career woman who was considered liberal and justice-seeking on her way up? Did she forget it all? Does money buy everything? Or, when it comes to Israel, do all principles suddenly change?-rh
| 11/11/2015 |
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The Palestinian cause and international law | | Hatem Bazian -
Al Jazeera -
"As Palestinians move to join a host of UN commissions, organisations and legal bodies, the Israeli government is leaning on the US to punish international agencies by withholding funding and threatening Palestinians with the same." - id
| 11/11/2015 |
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Jerusalem and Hebron: A tale of two cities | | Daoud Kuttab -
Al Monitor -
"East Jerusalem and Hebron are bound by familial ties and shared solidarity from their experiences under Israeli occupation." - id
| 11/11/2015 |
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98th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration | | Dr. Saeb Erekat -
IMEMC -
"In 1917 Palestinians rejected the Balfour Declaration, making clear that the problem was not with Jews living in Palestine, but with the transformation of an Arab country overwhelmingly Christian and Muslim, into an exclusively Jewish State." - id
| 4/11/2015 |
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When will Israel have a leader like Bill Clinton? | | Sima Kadmon -
Ynet -
"Why can`t Netanyahu offer his citizens wise, optimistic, comforting and uniting words - like the former US President did at the Rabin rally - instead of promising us that we will forever live by the sword?" - id
| 4/11/2015 |
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Living by the sword - on a powder keg | | Adam Keller -
Crazy Country -
"It is yet to be determined who would place the cameras, and at which precise locations on the sacred Mount, and who would be authorized to view the footage and publish it. Each and every one of these points could well become the subject of negotiations lasting months - perhaps years." - id
| 4/11/2015 |
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How Israel’s Most Successful Terrorist Stalked Rabin and Ended Peace | | Christopher Dickey -
The Daily Beast -
"The engrossing new book ‘Killing a King’ tells the story of the Rabin assassination up close and personal—and how the killing effectively ended the best chance for peace." - id
| 4/11/2015 |
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Why the BDS Campaign Can’t Tolerate Israeli Moderates | | Dan Rabinowitz - Haaretz - BDS’ insistence on Israel’s withdrawal from the territories it took in 1967 suggests a two-state solution. But statements by BDS leaders and supporters over the years reflect vehement opposition to this formula and a preference of a future with no Israel.
[bz] | 3/11/2015 |
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The political black hole | | Yacov Ben Efrat - Challenge - The black hole swallows all Jews and Arabs who seek to put an end to the occupation, refuse to take part in the religious war, and aspire to an egalitarian democratic society. Herzog’s future partnership with Lapid and the Haredim will not lead to the kind of civil and political revolution which is needed to put an end to the occupation and vanquish the right wing. Likewise, the partnership between Balad, Hadash, and the Islamic Movement does nothing for the Arab citizens of Israel. It prevents an effective struggle against the Israeli right wing and renders impossible any Jewish-Arab cooperation. [bz] | 3/11/2015 |
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The only way to end the violence in Hebron | | Yehuda Shaul - +972 - Hebron is the microcosm of the military’s system of control throughout the entire West Bank. The lessons we are learning in the city can and must be applied to the entire system. Prolonged military control over Palestinians will not bring security, but rather perennial cycles of violence. More forceful “security” won’t change a thing.
We aren’t the only ones to blame in this story but we are the stronger side, and we have a choice. We may either continue to enforce this policy of “security” and the violent routine that accompanies it, or try a different approach, working toward ending the occupation and militarily control of the territories.
[bz] | 3/11/2015 |
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A dignified rally, a paralyzed nation | | Nahum Barnea - Ynet - We have such a talented, vital, creative, ambitious people living here, which succeeds in everything it does - until it comes to politics. There, we are paralyzed. We are wasting ourselves. But we do know how to put together beautiful, sad rallies. [bz]
| 3/11/2015 |
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Israel lost not just Yitzhak Rabin, but his politics of reason | | Avi Shlaim - The Guardian - Twenty years after his assassination, the Israeli leader’s eventual insight that there is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict is still missed [ry] | 2/11/2015 |
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Adolf, Amin and Bibi | | Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom - "Now I am afraid. If indeed we are governed by a man with mental problems – just where is he leading us?" [ry] | 2/11/2015 |
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Why do J.K. Rowling and her opponents so misunderstand BDS? | | Jeremiah Haber--Whether they support BDS or oppose it, everyone wants to feel like they are Harry Potter fighting off Voldemort. Though perhaps it’s best we leave Harry out of this debate. dn | 1/11/2015 |
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One State is the Solution | | Nadia Harhash--For two decades, we have been filled with notion of a two state solution that was idealistically based on the least of expectations of any Palestinian. And yet, we thought, at the end, the power rules, and let’s start building are land with the minimal of the agreed upon land. dn | 1/11/2015 |
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Palestinians have become unreasonably reasonable | | Sam Bahour--"Give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry declared in a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St John`s Church in Richmond, Virginia. Fast forward 240 years, and if Israel and the US were able to pin those words to a Palestinian and decry incitement, they would do so in a heartbeat.dn | 1/11/2015 |
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Netanyahu won. Here’s how to beat him | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 - By accepting that the two-state solution will just have to wait until Israel is ready to accept it, the White House has effectively conceded to Netanyahu’s strategy: declare support for two states — in theory — while continuing to deny Palestinians their most basic rights and liberties. [bz] | 10/11/2015 |
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We are lifelong Zionists. Here’s why we’ve chosen to boycott Israel. | | Steven Levitsky and Glen Weyl - Washington Post - Undemocratic measures undertaken in pursuit of Israel’s survival, such as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and the denial of basic rights to Palestinians living there, were understood to be temporary.
But we must face reality: The occupation has become permanent. (...) The only tools that could plausibly shape Israeli strategic calculations are a withdrawal of U.S. aid and diplomatic support, and boycotts of and divestitures from the Israeli economy. Boycotting only goods produced in settlements would not have sufficient impact to induce Israelis to rethink the status quo. [bz] | 10/11/2015 |
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Can we call it one state and be done with it? | | Amjad Iraqi - +972 - The debate over whether we are living in a single state is irrelevant – the answer is a resounding yes. The real problem is that freedom and equality are only extended to some of its subjects [ry] | 9/11/2015 |
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Israel jails own Palestinian citizen without charge or trial | | Charlotte Silver--The Israeli high court has approved the administrative detention of a 19-year-old woman who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. dn | 8/11/2015 |
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The undercurrents of violence in Israel and Palestine | | Neve Gordon--A new film reveals how the tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are played out on a daily basis. dn | 8/11/2015 |
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Obama and Netanyahu to meet in D.C., looking for a way past the ugliness of the Iran deal | | Steven Mufson--President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to move beyond the nasty public clash over the Iran nuclear deal and restore a more transactional approach to the U.S.-Israeli relationship — including delicate conversations about possible expansion of military aid — when they meet in Washington on Monday. dn | 8/11/2015 |
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Palestinian Political Crisis Worries Israel No Less Than Terror Wave | | Amos Harel - Haaretz - Israel is less worried about the immediate implications of the wave of violence, which is continuing at middling intensity, than about the anarchy that could descend on the West Bank as a result of an internal political crisis among the Palestinians. Because the PA is also facing growing economic problems, there is also a possibility that the interplay between those pressures will cause the PA to abandon its responsibility altogether, with the result that Israel will be sucked in again, against its will, to a position of assuming full rule over the West Bank population. [bz] | 7/11/2015 |
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Benjamin Netanyahu Ignores Roots of Palestinian Violence — and Betrays His Party`s Founders | | J.J. Goldberg--At a November 1 top-secret Israeli Cabinet meeting, the tension between Likud lawmakers and the country’s intelligence chiefs finally exploded. dn | 7/11/2015 |
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Israel`s Silent Occupation Turns to a Noisy One | | Miriam Barghouti--Near Qalandia checkpoint, four Palestinian youth uncover their faces as they get into an orange service taxi heading back to Ramallah. Omar, 18, wipes his dirtied palms and says "look, it has to get ugly, really ugly, before it can start to get better." His friend Osama, 19, looks at him and says in jest "dude, let`s be real, a stone isn`t going to liberate it." Omar confidently retorts, "no one said we`re trying to liberate it with the stone, rather send a message that for every action there will be a reaction. This is a reaction to Israeli aggression, no one said we`re liberating it." dn | 7/11/2015 |
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Wave of violence fuels Arab-Jewish suspicions in Israel`s heartland | | Ian Black -
The Guardian
"Knife attacks fuel fear across a bitterly divided country, with no
expectation of a political settlement any time soon...Relations
between Israel’s Arab minority – 20% of the country’s population –
and their kinfolk in the occupied territories have evolved in the
decades since they were reunited after the Six Day war. The so-
called Arabs of 1948, who stayed in their homeland after the Nakba,
routinely express solidarity with their fellow Palestinians." ca | 6/11/2015 |
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IDF Intelligence Chief: Palestinian Despair, Frustration Are Among Reasons for Terror Wave | | Barak Ravid -
Haaretz
"Major General Herzi Halevi`s assessment contradicts Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu`s message which blames the attacks on incitement
and ingrained hatred. The head of Military Intelligence, Maj.
General Herzl Halevi, said at Sunday’s weekly cabinet meeting that
feelings of rage and frustration, especially among younger
Palestinians, are part of the reason for the wave of terror attacks
in Jerusalem " ca | 6/11/2015 |
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