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| Title | | Description | Date |
| A trick too far | | Gush Shalom - About Netanyahu`s desperate efforts [bz] | 30/3/2021 |
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| Israeli politics can no longer ignore Palestinian citizens — even if it may end up boosting the right. | | Edo Konrad - +972 - The outcome was no stroke of luck; Abbas has been building up to this moment for months. In January, he pushed his Ra’am party to split off from the Joint List; and unlike in previous elections, in which Abbas promoted a moderate political and religious agenda, Ra’am made conservatism a cornerstone of its new political program, including an emphasis on its opposition to LGBTQ rights. In addition, Abbas re-branded himself as a “pragmatist” by making public overtures to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli right wing based on “mutual interests.” This included Ra’am’s (and the Joint List’s) demand to increase the government budget for addressing the most serious issues plaguing Palestinian society in Israel, including organized crime, gun violence, and housing construction in Arab communities. [bz] | 25/3/2021 |
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| Israel Election Results: Mansour Abbas, Don’t Believe Netanyahu | | Haaretz editorial - Joining forces with Netanyahu wouldn’t just be a moral and strategic mistake, it would be pure naivete. Netanyahu’s word is worthless. Abbas knows very well that agreements with Netanyahu aren’t worth the paper they are written on, and that whoever shakes Netanyahu’s hand needs to check afterward that he still has all his fingers. If Abbas still has any doubts about this, he should call Benny Gantz, whom Netanyahu deceived before the whole world, while Shas chairman Arye Dery supposedly vouched for the rotation agreement. Abbas also ought to recall that Netanyahu prevented Israel from passing a national budget and dragged it to a fourth election in the midst of a pandemic – just to wiggle out of the rotation agreement. [bz] | 25/3/2021 |
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| Not Just to Save It: Five Reasons to Vote Meretz in Israel`s Election | | Zehava Galon - Haaretz - [Reason no 3] (...) What do you think will happen to the fight against the occupation if it remains solely in the hands of the Joint List? Our Palestinian allies need the solidarity of Meretz. [bz] | 18/3/2021 |
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| Israelis hold elections and Palestinians also hold elections - but is this democracy? | | Salem Barahmeh - The Guardian - For the first time in decades, the
Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel will hold legislative
elections a few months apart. Many in the international community
and media will see this as a joint exercise in democracy but it is,
in fact, a window into the reality of a two-tiered system that
denies Palestinians the basic freedom and rights that many across
the world take for granted. Drive across the winding roads of the
West Bank this spring and you will see election posters interrupting
the beautiful landscape of olive and almond trees. Upon further
inspection, you may soon realise that the candidate advertised is
not an eager Palestinian campaigning for a parliamentary seat. It is
likely to be an Israeli candidate running for the Israeli
Parliament. This raises a very valid question: why are Israelis
campaigning in the West Bank, the territory designated by
international law and consensus to become part of a future
Palestinian state? Israel occupies and controls the entirety of the
West Bank and has de facto annexed large portions of it through the
settling of 650,000-750,000 Israelis on Palestinian land. Under the
Rome statute of the international criminal court, a settlement
enterprise of this nature is not only illegal but also considered a
war crime. Yet these illegal settlers are able to run, campaign, and
vote in Israeli elections and have come to occupy the position of
king-makers in Israeli coalition-forming. [ak] | 18/3/2021 |
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| What peacemaker? | | Gush Shalom - Under Netanyahu`s leadership, also the decades-long peace with Jordan is eroded and shaken. [bz] | 16/3/2021 |
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| The ICC and Israel’s Charge of Anti-Semitism | | Neve Gordon - CounterPunch - “The ICC is on Israel’s target list. This becomes
clear when searching for the terms ‘ICC ruling’ and ‘Israel’ together;
instantaneously, an ad pops up at the very top of Google’s list of 1,390,000
results: ‘ICC & Israel: No Standing. No Jurisdiction. No Case’” [ry] | 15/3/2021 |
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| Meretz Might Not Make It Into Knesset. This Is What Its Disappearance Would Mean | | Noa Landau - Haaretz - Merav Michaeli’s election as chairwoman of
Labor, together with the makeup of her party list, prompted a theory
that there’s no longer any real difference between Labor and Meretz.
Many among what remains of the left are attracted to what is sparkly
and new, and more emotionally thrilling. Meretz chairman Nitzan
Horowitz is trying to highlight Michaeli’s Achilles’ heel: the fight
against the occupation. One statement by Horowitz last week indeed
slashed a dividing line between him and Michaeli – and this line
runs through The Hague: “The settlements and the right are dragging
Israel to The Hague,” he tweeted. “The ongoing construction and
threats of annexation are embroiling Israel in accusations of war
crimes. The settlement obsession must stop and the peace process
with the Palestinians must be restarted.” From a left-wing point of
view, this does not count as a brave, or even problematic statement.
But it stands in stark contrast to Michaeli’s response: “The
[international] court’s decision is grave and problematic. It
assumed authority it doesn’t have and imposed it on Israel in a
distorted way. I have full faith in the Israeli justice system and
in the IDF. If Meretz is not in the next Knesset, there will be no
more representation for the Zionist left that recognizes the reality
of the occupation and its implications, at a time when the
proceedings in The Hague are likely to ramp up the persecution of
anyone who dares to argue that there is a basis for investigating
suspected war crimes in the territories. This would be the real
effect of Meretz’s disappearance. [bz] | 11/3/2021 |
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| Why does the ICC pick on us? | | Gush Shalom - We are a democratic country! Aren`t we? [bz] | 9/3/2021 |
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| ‘Engaging the World’: The ‘Fascinating Story’ of Hamas’s Political Evolution | | Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo - CounterPunch - "As Moscow continues to
cement its presence in the region by offering itself as a political partner and,
compared with the US, a more balanced mediator between Israel and the
Palestinians, Hamas sees the developing Russian role as a rare opportunity to
break away from the US-Israel imposed isolation" [ry] | 8/3/2021 |
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| Jewish Crime | | Amos Gvirtz - I suppose any Jew would sense antisemitism in the headline above. And still I used this provocative headline. In recent days the Hebrew media are filled with reports on the criminality of Negev Bedouins, totally ignoring the State’s crimes against them. (...) Indeed, during this Corona year the Israeli government broke all previous records of house demolitions in the Negev! This, in spite of the government’s own Attorney General’s instructions to avoid home demolitions during the pandemic… [bz] | 3/3/2021 |
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| The Um El Fahm paradox | | Gush Shalom - The demonstrators in Um El Fahm
were protesting
police ineffectiveness
in confronting the
rising crime wave
in Israel`s Arab towns.
But, the police proved
quite capable of
a vigorous use of force -
Against the demonstrators.
[bz]
| 2/3/2021 |
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