Commentary
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Title | | Description | Date |
Israeli-Arab voters succeed in forcing their will on party | | Afif Abu Much -
Al-Monitor
"the Arab street succeeded in forcing its will on the leadership of
the Joint List. It has succeeded in initiating a new kind of
discourse, which had not existed previously. It is a discourse
rooted in a desire to integrate into Israel society and become part
of the country’s circle of decision-makers. That is why we are
hearing more and more statements from various parts of the Joint
List, which do not reject future cooperation with Blue and White, in
order to improve the situation of the Arab public and to help send
Netanyahu home. After all, that is what most of the Arab public
wants, given the incessant campaign of incitement, which Netanyahu
waged and continues to wage against them, in his capacity as prime
minister. This is what led to the party’s historic decision to
recommend Gantz. It signaled that the Arab parties were returning to
the political game, for the first time since 1992, when the Arab
parties recommended Yitzhak Rabin for prime minister." ca
| 25/10/2019 |
... |
The judge who designed the legal foundations of Israel`s occupation | | Michael Sfard -
+972
"In tandem with the protections he implemented for the important
rights and freedoms dear to the Ashkenazi middle class of the time
(freedom of expression, freedom from religious coercion, the battle
against government corruption), Shamgar turned the Supreme Court
into an ally of the security establishment, ready to assist in
strengthening and deepening the other legal system Israel has
created – the one that governs the occupied Palestinian territories
and the settlement enterprise. In that section of Shamgar’s court,
attorneys and judges utilized (and continue to utilize) their
valuable knowledge and skills to uphold a system that commits brutal
and unforgivable violations of human rights." ca | 25/10/2019 |
... |
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association comes out in support of a bill that protects Palestinian children | | Michael Arria -
Mondoweiss
"While we fully support Israel’s right to defend itself against
terrorists, we believe that the detention and interrogation of
children is a very last resort only in the most urgent cases. It
should never be a normal course of action,” reads a statement put
out by RRA." ca | 25/10/2019 |
... |
Who Needs the Strategic Affairs Ministry? | | Yael Patir -
IMEMC
"The staff of the Foreign Affairs Ministry was trained to represent
the State of Israel. They know that to provide diplomatic protection
for Israel, they must create a unique fit suitable for the place,
time and target audience. And yet, the Netanyahu government wanted
to reinforce the narrative of the Israeli right wing – in Israel and
abroad – and to do this he had to mark an international enemy to be
fought for cohesion’s sake. That’s how the perfect demon was found:
the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement." ca | 25/10/2019 |
... |
Rewarding the Israeli Attackers in the Settlements | | Amira Hass - Haaretz - Just as I write this column Monday
afternoon, Israeli soldiers are preventing olive harvesters from the
Palestinian village of Burin from accessing their grove to harvest
olives. I repeat: their land, their olive grove, their trees.
The grove is adjacent to the spot where last Wednesday masked Jewish
Israelis attacked volunteers from Rabbis for Human Rights, including
80-year-old Rabbi Moshe Yehudai, with rods and rocks. The volunteers
had joined the olive harvesters from Burin in the hope that their
presence would ensure the Palestinians’ safety.
The rabbi’s assailants had come from the Yitzhar settlement and its
outposts. That is also where those who attacked Israelis soldiers
came from.
It’s a system – violence carried out with the army’s full backing
and with the aim of expanding, on a daily basis, the area from which
Palestinians are driven out.
[bz] | 22/10/2019 |
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Release them! | | Gush Shalom - We all feel very sorry for
Naama Issachar, Israeli girl on her way home,
Jailed in Russia
On a flimsy pretext.
[bz]
But who even heard of
Hiba al Labadi
Jordanian girl jailed in Israel
Now on hunger strike?
Administrative Detention.
No need of any pretext.
| 15/10/2019 |
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One land, divided | | Kirsty LG - Green Olive Tours - It’s summertime in Scotland and
finally after four intensive months I feel enough distance and
cooling of the air to be able to reflect on my time in Jerusalem.
the city and the land have both enchanted and enthralled me. Layer
upon layer of history and religious diversity have created a depth
of culture that is unlike anywhere else I’ve been in the world. I
would call Jerusalem a melting pot but the ingredients don’t mix so
easily here as they do in other great cities of the world. (...)I
feel sad that most Israelis will never get to drive to Ramallah and
experience the hustle and bustle of the old city or the divine cakes
at Vanilla café in the shiny new area of the city. Similarly, most
West bankers can only dream of hiking up Ein Gedi, floating in the
Dead Sea or visiting the Tel Aviv beaches again. The human spirit is
resilient however and there is always someone worse off with a
staircase of suffering leading from East Jerusalem, to the West
Bank, to Gaza and down from there to other Arab states like Syria
and Yemen. This resilience of spirit impresses me but it’s not ok in
the same way as Apartheid in South Africa wasn’t OK. (This essay got
the first prize in the 2019 Green Olive Competition). [ak] | 15/10/2019 |
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"The destruction of asociety": First the U.S. invaded Iraq — then we leftit poisoned | | David Masciotra -
Information Clearing House
"Fortunately, there is amovement to criminalize environmental
contaminationcaused by war. Damage to nature and the
humanenvironment must be considered a war crime.Scientists are
currentlyasking international lawmakers to adopt a fifth Geneva
Convention which wouldrecognize damage to nature as a war crime,
alongsideother war crimes. I hope that will make a differencein our
ability to protect human lives and our environment." ca
| 13/10/2019 |
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Congress should impeach David Friedman, too | | Josh Ruebner -
Mondoweiss
"While we’re at it, let’s add another Trump administration official,
although for reasons having nothing to do with Ukraine, who also
richly deserves to be impeached: US Ambassador to Israel David
Friedman.Can the House of Representatives impeach an ambassador?
Yes, it can. Although it has never successfully done so, there have
been several efforts to impeach ambassadors and consular officials
in the past and Friedman would make an excellent precedent for being
the first one to be impeached." ca
| 11/10/2019 |
... |
Trump`s Decision to Abandon Syria`s Kurds Is Bad News for All U.S. Regional Allies | | Amos Harel - Haaretz - There is also a lesson for Israel’s leadership, apparently. Just a few months ago Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers were jostling one another during that mortifyingly groveling ceremony in which a settlement in the Golan Heights was named after the American president. Since then, a promise to sign a defense pact between the two nations, tossed into the ether on the eve of the second election, seems to have evaporated. Again one must wonder whether too much reliance hadn’t been placed on Trump, at the cost of Netanyahu distancing himself far from the Democrats and undermining traditional bipartisan support in Washington for Israel. [bz] | 8/10/2019 |
... |
The Africa-Palestine Conference: Why South Africa Must Lead the Way | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “[…] South Africa is yet to take the kind of action
that, when combined with others measures of international solidarity, could finally
force Israel to dismantle its system of Apartheid in Palestine” [ry] | 7/10/2019 |
... |
Is a new revolution in the making in Egypt? | | A correspondent in Egypt -
Al-Monitor
" For the second week in a row, demonstrations against Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi were held in the cities of Qena,
Luxor, Sohag and al-Warkh near Giza governorate...In response to the
protests, Sisi said that public opinion in Egypt would not accept
the rule of “political Islam.” ca
| 4/10/2019 |
... |
How Netanyahu mainstreamed an anti-democratic vision | | Harry Reis -
+972
"...the stakes of the election outcome are far higher than the
political survival of one man. Throughout these last two rounds of
forced elections, Israelis glimpsed an anti-democratic future – one
controlled by a narrow immunity-annexationist coalition that would
have protected Netanyahu as a man above the law. While Netanyahu
failed to emerge with the majority required to enact that dark
future, his irregular maneuvers over the course of the past two
elections — attacking the judiciary, inviting extremists into his
coalition, and undermining voting rights — upended a number of key
democratic norms." ca | 4/10/2019 |
... |
The suspect Samer Arabid | | Gush Shalom statement - After two days of
Shabak interrogation
the suspect Samer Arabid
was rushed to an
intensive care ward.
Not much chance for
A serious investigation:
The Israeli media
Already judged him,
Calling him `terrorist` and `murderer`
Before he even stood trial.
[bz] | 1/10/2019 |
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How the Right Has Tried to Rebrand Anti-Semitism | | Mairav Zonszein - New York Review of Books - Such false accusations of
anti-Semitism do not come without a cost: the most dangerous long-term
effect, which we are already beginning to see unfold, is that they will
obscure and pervert people’s understanding of what actual anti-Semitism
is—and thus undermine the battle to combat it.[bz] | 1/10/2019 |
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