Commentary
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Title | | Description | Date |
From a Blessing to a Curse: How UN Resolution 2334 Accelerated Israel’s Colonization in the West Bank | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “Gradually, the US government fortified its
protective shield around Israel, thus rendering 2334 and many other UN
resolutions meaningless. In other words, the US managed to turn international
consensus regarding the illegality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine into an
opportunity for Tel Aviv to disown any commitment, not only to the UN, but to
the so-called two-state solution, and the ‘peace process’, as well” [ry] | 30/12/2019 |
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Israel, UAE and the hypocritical manipulation of religion | | Abdelwahab El-Affendi - Al Jazeera - Palestinians and other Arabs are not
interested in the promotion of `religious tolerance` by highly intolerant regimes [ry] | 30/12/2019 |
... |
A letter to Supreme Court Judges on the Vanunu case | | I read with sorrow and disappointment your decision to reject Mordechai Vanunu’s appeal against the restrictions that were imposed on him on his release from prison in April 2004. Again and again the security services repeat the lie that Vanunu has “secret information” that he intends to expose, and you adopt those words of defamation under cover of the revolting process in which the court hears evidence from the prosecution that is not disclosed to the defence. | 29/12/2019 |
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The decade Israel erased the Green Line | | Dror Etkes -
+972
"Several months after the 2009 elections, Netanyahu delivered what
became known as the “Bar Ilan Speech,” in which he said that “the
territorial question will be discussed as part of the final peace
agreement. In the meantime, we have no intention of building new
settlements or of expropriating additional land for existing
settlements...Over a decade has passed, and the rhetoric Netanyahu
uses today can be summarized in a statement he delivered a week
before the second elections of 2019: “Today I announce my intention,
with the formation of the next government, to establish Israeli
sovereignty on the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea
[settlements].” ca | 26/12/2019 |
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Trump is bad for the Jews | | Rabbi Alissa Wise - Jewish Voice For Peace - Trump and his cronies
are cracking down on student activism because it’s
working.
Trump’s executive order will do NOTHING to keep Jewish students
safe. It won’t protect against Nazis or Nazi recruitment, it won`t
prevent campuses from scheduling important events on Jewish
holidays, and it won`t protect Jewish religious spaces from armed
attackers. What it will do is incentivize administrators to create
harsh rules against even the mildest activism for Palestinian rights
– or risk their institutions’ federal funding. Trump and his
supporters are afraid of our movement. Trump doesn’t want to keep
Jews safe – he wants to suppress free speech to ensure our silence.
[ak]
| 24/12/2019 |
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Anti-Zionism is about correcting historical wrongs, not encouraging anti-Semitism | | Ran Greenstein - +972 - The more we target concrete individuals, institutions, and policies, and avoid using vague and obfuscating terms, the better we can focus solidarity and resistance efforts, and effectively counter accusations of anti-Semitism as weapons used against the movement to end Israeli apartheid, and to achieve justice and equality for all. [bz] | 24/12/2019 |
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The many faces of Benjamin Netanyahu | | Dahlia Scheindlin - +972 - Netanyahu has only been so successful because he reflects and represents the many faces of Israel: victor and victim, global citizen and international outcast, pyromaniac and war-shy. [bz] | 24/12/2019 |
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ICC intimidates Netanyahu from Jordan Valley annexation | | Itamar Eichner - Y-net - Immediately after the ICC chief prosecutor,
Fatou Bensouda announced her intention to investigate alleged
Israeli human rights violations, Prime Minister Netanyahu canceled
a meeting of an inter-ministerial team intended to discuss the
annexation of the Jordan Valley. Netanyahu had announced in
September - a week before a national ballot - that Israel will
establish its sovereignty over the Jordan Valley if his Likud party
would win the elections, and has repeated the same campaign promise
also when repeat elections were scheduled for mmarch 2020. But the
ICC prosecutor specifically mentioned this Netanyahu speech as an
example of Israel’s intentions which must be investigated (and
possibly prosecuted). A government source noted that "Because of the
prosecutor’s decision in the Hague, the issue of the Jordan Valley
annexation will be put on a long hold”. [ak] | 24/12/2019 |
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Only The Hague Will Save Israel | | Gideon Levy - Haaretz - Israel has done everything to reach The
Hague. That’s what happens when the prosecution is a cemetery for
war crimes, the High Court whitewashes them and the media hides them
and covers for them. That’s the way it is when international law is
disparaged for decades. There’s probably no other country that
thumbs its nose at international law this way and pays no price for
it. Perhaps now the moment of truth is approaching, the moment of
penalty. It will be very good for Israel. It might clean out its
stables, stained with blood and stolen land. Every Israeli patriot
and seeker of justice should now look to The Hague with hope.[ak] | 24/12/2019 |
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Trump’s Judaism Order Has Nothing to Do With Fighting Anti-Semitism | | Sarah Gertler - CounterPunch - “When Jews and non-Jews alike speak up for
human rights and are crushed into silence, no one is safer. When congresspeople
who speak up against this are slandered as anti-Semitic, while our clearly anti-
Semitic president is not, no one is safer” [ry] | 23/12/2019 |
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The US Is No Honest Broker in Israel and Palestine | | New Internationalist - Adam Keller analyses the bitter decades of biased
‘mediation’ between the US, Israel and the Palestinian people [ry] | 23/12/2019 |
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Born Without Civil Rights | | Human Rights Watch - The Israeli army has deprived generations of Palestinians in the West Bank of their basic civil rights, including the rights to free assembly, association and expression, regularly drawing on military orders issued in the first days of the occupation. Even if such restrictions could have been justified then to preserve public order and safety, the suspension of core rights more than half a century later with no end in sight violates Israel’s core responsibilities under the law of occupation. The responsibilities of an occupying power toward the rights of the occupied population increase with the duration of the occupation. (...) It is long past time for Israel to fully respect the human rights of Palestinians, using as a benchmark the rights it grants Israeli citizens, an obligation that exists regardless of the political arrangement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory now or in the future[bz] | 17/12/2019 |
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What should Israel be after Netanyahu? | | Nadav Eyal -
Ynetnews
"Any eulogy for Netanyahu would be premature before he himself says
"I resign." ca | 14/12/2019 |
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‘Palestine Needs Jeremy’: Palestinians Tweet in Support of Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn | | The Palestine Chronicle -
"Most of the Corbyn anti-Semite accusations are usually from right
wing sources, who have taken his actions out of context. The main
scrutinisation is his support for Palestine, however he supports the
end of the ethnic genocide within Palestine that is caused by
Israeli rule.— Asad Mahmood (@Asad667) December 12, 2019" ca
| 14/12/2019 |
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If you believe Zionism is racism– get ready for your close up! | | Philip Weiss -
Mondoweiss
"I say now and have said before, I would likely have been a Zionist
100 years ago in Europe. I would have been caught up in the movement
given my ethnocentrism, my sense of being an outsider and my
compassion for people being persecuted. But Zionism has failed
utterly and completely. It is subjugating non-Jews in Palestine and
pushing them out of their homes.The last thing the Zionists want is
for you to look into what is actually happening in Gaza or the West
Bank. They want you to notice what some one may have said to a
Zionist student advocate on the way to Economics 101 class...This is
the struggle we always wanted. Are you ready for it or not?" ca
| 14/12/2019 |
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To understand the violence of Israel’s occupation, know these 30 stories | | Hagai El-Ad (director of B`tselem) - +972 - Violence and whitewashing are the double helix of the occupation`s DNA. Here are 30 stories of Palestinians killed or harmed by its brutality, collected by B`Tselem over three decades. And they’re just the tip of the iceberg. [bz] | 10/12/2019 |
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Don`t Believe Netanyahu. Israel Doesn`t Need The Jordan Valley. Here`s Why | | Illan Goldenberg - Forward - Netanyahu’s latest focus on annexing the valley is a transparent political ploy to stay in power and pressure Gantz to accept a unity government. In the process, he is building political support for the argument that Israel must annex the Jordan River Valley because of security concerns. (...) Annexing this territory, which makes up 22.3% of the West Bank, would amount to Israeli territory entirely enveloping any future Palestinian state, making it non-viable. [The writer served at the U.S. State Department as Chief of Staff for the team supporting
Secretary John Kerry’s initiative to finalize IP peace-bz] | 10/12/2019 |
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The “expert” who lets EU off the hook | | David Cronin - EI - “While the EU takes no meaningful action to halt Israel’s
colonization of the West Bank, the bloc continues to deepen its ties with the state
that is building the settlements. Israel is essentially being rewarded for the very
crimes the EU claims to oppose” [ry] | 9/12/2019 |
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God help us, and protect us from so-called “friends” like you - from Jerusalem, a letter to Jared Kushner | | Angela Godfrey-Goldstein - Common Dreams - As a peace activist, I see the denial of Palestinian freedom by Israel and the United States following a tragic trajectory: we create what we fear. If we deny higher purpose or give in to such lower motives as selfishness, greed or the inferiority that needs to feel superior or “chosen,” I believe that we Israelis will never experience the freedom we yearn for, as referenced in our national anthem, HaTikva, while deliberately choking those we desperately seek to control." [bz] | 3/12/2019 |
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Gaza immortalizes what Gantz and Netanyahu have in common | | Hagai El-Ad - Ynet - It was no coincidence that the prime minister reminded his
so-called rival of their actions in Operation Protective Edge in 2014, when one
was PM and the other IDF chief; the two are bound together by the blood of
Palestinian children [ry] | 2/12/2019 |
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Israel’s Next Move: The Real Danger in US Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - "The US decision to defy international law on
settlements is not dangerous because it violates international law, for the latter
has hardly been a concern for Washington. The danger lies in the fact that the
US foreign policy regarding the Israeli occupation has become a mere rubber
stamp, that allows Israel’s extreme right-wing government to single-handedly
determine the fate of the Palestinian people and sow the seed of instability and
war in the Middle East for many years to come" [ry] | 2/12/2019 |
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