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Title | | Description | Date |
PA Political Circus: Why Abbas Must Hand the Keys over to the PLO | | Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “The painful truth is that the Palestinian
Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas has already ceased to exist as a political
body that holds much sway or relevance, either to the Palestinian people or to
Abbas’ former benefactors, namely the Israeli and the American governments"
[ry] | 29/6/2020 |
... |
Annexation in Palestine and Netanyahu`s calculus | | Akiva Eldar - Al Jazeera - The Israeli prime minister has broken with the Israeli
right-wing policy of creeping annexation. Why the shift? [ry] | 29/6/2020 |
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Mixed Signals on Israeli Annexation Reflect Split Among White House Officials | | David M. Halbfinger and Michael Crowley - New York Times - When
President Trump’s Middle East team meets this week to hash out what
to do about Israel’s planned annexation of territory in the West
Bank, a fundamental question will hover overhead: Is the prospect of
annexation a pressure tactic to get the Palestinians to engage with
the administration’s peace plan, or is the peace plan just a
smokescreen for annexation? American and Israeli officials are
deeply divided on the question, an issue that could determine how
and when any annexation proceeds. (...) Yossi Klein Halevi, an
author and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in
Jerusalem, suggested in The Wall Street Journal last week that
Ambassador Friedman and settler leaders were treating Mr. Trump as a
“useful idiot” whose peace plan would serve settler interests now
but would never deliver a Palestinian state. [ak] | 23/6/2020 |
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The Federation of Palestinian and Hebrew Nations | | Dr abraham Weizfeld - This is a work in political philosophy
differentiating civil society from the State to arrive at a
constitutional model for the Federation of a bi-national society.
This transitional constitutional procedure culminating in a ‘No-
State Solution’ is also a format that carries through a critique of
the Nation-State itself. The writer is concerned by the political
philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the
contradiction between two major Nations in the body of one Land –
Palestine-Israel. While the notion of the Nation-State has permeated
the Levant since the 1917 British Crusade into Jerusalem, the
organic demographic actuality of the country’s population is
incompatible with the dominance of one Nation in one Land and the
subsequent degeneration into the series of war crimes beginning in
1947. The exit from this conception of a Zionist State requires
another methodology that offers an alternative to the domination of
one Nation by another. [ak] | 23/6/2020 |
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By recognising Palestine, Britain can help right the wrongs of the Balfour declaration | | Avi Shlaim - The Guardian - The British government joined 10 European Union countries to warn Israel against annexation, while 130 MPs signed an open letter urging Johnson to impose economic sanctions on Israel if it went ahead with the move. The MPs are right that action is needed; tepid expressions of disapproval have never deterred the Israeli government. Recognising Palestine as a state within the 1967 borders is another way for Britain to right the wrongs of Balfour and end up on the right side of history.
More than a dozen European parliaments have recognised Palestine but only one government – Sweden. In 2017, Johnson, then foreign secretary, rejected Labour’s call for the UK to mark the Balfour declaration’s centenary by officially recognising the state of Palestine, declaring that “the moment is not yet right to play that card”. Surely today the moment has come. [bz]
| 23/6/2020 |
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No guarantee | | Gush Shalom - Annexing Palestinian territory -
What is the big deal?
Isn`t our army there anyway? ...
[bz]
| 9/6/2020 |
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Netanyahu`s annexation folly | | Nahum Barnea - Ynet - Claiming sovereignty over parts of the West Bank is not in
Israel`s best interests; the prime minister wants the land but not the people - but
there`s a word for that and we all know how it ended in South Africa [ry] | 8/6/2020 |
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Edward Said`s spectre and the end of Oslo | | Haidar Eid - Al Jazeera - What Edward Said predicted in the 1990s came to be.
The PLO`s two-state project has failed [ry]
| 8/6/2020 |
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The Real Reason for ‘Mainstream’ Jewish America’s Appalling Silence on Annexation | | Hadar Susskind - Ha`aretz/Americans for Peace Now - But whether or
not you support two-states is the 1990’s question.
Today it comes down to this: what are you going to do about it? When
actions are taken that threaten the viability of two states living
side by side in peace and security, what do you say? What do you do?
Unfortunately, for too many organizations the answer is one long
awkward silence. Right now, the Israeli government is making plans
that, if implemented, will be incredibly damaging. Annexation
threatens the futures of Palestine and Israel. It threatens Israel’s
relationships with the Arab world, including its neighbors Jordan
and Egypt. And, never forget, it threatens the U.S.-Israel
relationship and, in perhaps the saddest manifestation, the
relationship between Israel and the American Jewish community.
Yet AIPAC continues to refer to Israel as “the only democracy in the
Middle East” even as annexation threatens to further erode that
reality, and they tell us that "bipartisan support for the
fundamentals of the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship must
supersede any policy dispute," including a possible dispute over
West Bank annexation. [ak] | 2/6/2020 |
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Less than Bantustans | | Gush Shalom - "I am going to annex
the Jordan Valley,
but the Palestinians there
will not get Israeli citizenship.
We will just keep them in enclaves." [bz] | 2/6/2020 |
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