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| Why everybody must see this Palestinian film | | John Brennan - New York Times - On a recent evening I watched “The
Present,” a short film by Farah Nabulsi, a Palestinian filmmaker,
which was nominated for an Academy Award for live-action short film.
(The winner in the category was “Two Distant Strangers.”) Ms.
Nabulsi’s 25-minute film is a powerful, heartbreaking account of the
travails of Yusuf, a Palestinian man, and Yasmine, his young
daughter, as they traverse an Israeli military checkpoint in the
West Bank twice in a single day. “The Present” establishes its
context quickly, opening with images of Palestinian men making
their way through a narrow passageway at one of the numerous
checkpoints that dot the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Palestinians
going to work, visiting family or shopping on the opposite
side of a security barrier have to bear this humiliating procedure
every day. The scene brought back memories of my first visit to the
West Bank in 1975, when I crossed the Jordan River and arrived at an
Israeli security post. (Mr. Brennan was the director of the C.I.A.
from 2013 to 2017.) [AK] | 29/4/2021 |
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| Unprecedented poll reveals 25% of Israeli Jews Acknowledge Israel’s Apartheid. Why Can’t We? | | Ben Gelblum - Byline Times - “Europeans in general, and Germans specifically, find it easier to not call it ‘apartheid’ because if they did, they would have to face the question of why they aren’t treating it that way” / “No one who called for a boycott of South Africa had to spend at least half of their time explaining they are not anti-white racists”. Gelblum analyses a B`Tselem poll, and quotes a discussion. [bz] | 29/4/2021 |
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| Asymmetric confrontations | | Gush Shalom - East Jerusalem is an occupied city. Settlers take over houses and throw Palestinian tenants into the street, with the active help of the Israel Police. The courts of the State of Israel have issued new deportation orders for hundreds of Sheikh Jarrah residents (...) [bz]
| 28/4/2021 |
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| What ties the U.S. and Israel together? Our arrogant, doomed mythology of exceptionalism | | Doug Neiss - Salon - As bad as Republican bloc voting is on domestic
issues, what may be even worse are the near-unanimous bipartisan
votes on military spending and unconditional support for Israel. It
goes without saying that does not reflect the diversity of opinion
among American Jews, Israeli Jews or the American public at large,
although the pretense that unqualified support for Israel is the
dominant view among Jewish Americans — and among Americans in
general — is strictly maintained. This cannot be justified by
straightforward concern for Israel`s survival — Israel has long
since assured its own survival with nuclear weapons, an open secret
for decades — nor by the supposedly all-powerful Israel lobby.
Invoking the "power of the Israel lobby" protects the myth of
American innocence at the risk of perpetuating the myth of Jewish
evil: Innocent, trusting America, no match for those crafty,
scheming Jews![ak] | 21/4/2021 |
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| A debt to the future | | Gush Shalom - Itzik Saidian was sent by the State of Israel to fight in the Sajaiya refugee camp. He shot and killed residents of the camp,
saw several of his comrades being killed, came back with battle shock...
[bz] | 21/4/2021 |
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| How hawkish Democrats are impeding Biden’s Middle East policy | | Mitchell Plitnick - +972 magazine - From the Iran nuclear deal to the Israeli occupation, conservative Democrats are raising the political costs of adopting a more progressive U.S. foreign policy. Those battles would be difficult enough if they were only partisan. But as Menendez, Sherman, and other congressional Democrats have shown, Biden’s own party is deeply divided on the issue of Palestinian rights. [bz] | 15/4/2021 |
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| Ex-Mossad chief Efraim Halevy on Iran, Hamas and Israel`s political crisis | | DAVID BRINN - Jerusalem Post - # The political use that has been made of the Mossad has not served Israel well over the past couple of years. # By saying that Hamas is not acceptable as a partner to talk to, we are playing into their hands. # For reasons that are common knowledge, the Abraham Accords with the Gulf states have been portrayed in terms which are bordering on peace treaties. They are not peace treaties. There was never a war between Israel and the Gulf states. What ultimately took place was the normalization of relations that have existed over the years and have flourished.
What happened is an achievement in itself, but for reasons well known, the timing of the accords were related to domestic politics. [bz] | 15/4/2021 |
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| Netanyahu’s Shameful Speech: When Holocaust Remembrance Day Becomes a Campaign Event | | Alon Pinkas - Haaretz - Here was the prime minister of the State of Israel,
the state of the Jewish people, speaking at Yad Vashem on the eve of
the country’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of the most sacred days
on the Israeli national calendar. On such an occasion, you would
expect somberness, solemnity, humility, grace, historical
perspective and valuable insight. After all, this is a day in which
the entire country remembers the most vile genocide and tragedy in
human history. But not when it comes to Mr. Netanyahu. For the prime
minister, it’s all about him. Always. For him, Holocaust Remembrance
Day is just another opportunity to make a political speech, a self-
serving tirade. As a bonus encore, just to make things even more
politicized, this year’s speech also included a warning to President
Joe Biden on Iran. [ak] | 8/4/2021 |
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| Who is afraid of democracy? | | Gush Shalom - The Palestinians, too
want to hold
democratic elections
and freely vote for
their representatives.
But the State of Israel
is strongly opposed... [bz]
| 8/4/2021 |
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