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| Title | | Description | Date |
| What change? | | Gush Shalom - From Abu Dhabi to Silwan [bz] | 30/6/2021 |
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| A dozen takeaways from the latest Israel-Palestine horrors – and three glimmers of hope | | Tony Klug - Palestine-Israel Journal - The conflict cannot be
managed or even contained. Nor should it be, as it would entrench
inequality and injustice. It has to be resolved. There is no
military solution to what, at base, is a political problem.
To be achievable and sustainable, a resolution has to accommodate
the minimum core aspirations of both peoples and allay their maximum
fears. Far from being a “defeated” people, Palestinians are probably
more determined and united than before. The occupation has not
delivered to Israelis the security they yearn for, and it never
will. The prolonged occupation is itself a major source of
insecurity. [bz] | 24/6/2021 |
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| No avoiding of the real issues | | Gush Shalom - A law forbidding
Arab citizens of Israel
from marrying
West Bank Palestinians.
Can a law be
more ideological than that
and more controversial? [bz] | 21/6/2021 |
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| No moment of grace | | Gush Shalom - The “Flag Dance” organizers have been for many years political and ideological partners of Naftali Bennett. Will he be willing and able to block them on his very first day as Prime Minister? [bz] | 12/6/2021 |
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| Naftali Bennett: Israel’s far-right prime minister in waiting | | Oliver Holmes - The Guardianb - Naftali Bennett does not believe in
a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. His aim instead is to
“manage” it in perpetuity and always from a position of ultimate
Israeli control over Palestinians. The hardline religious
nationalist, once the head of a prominent Jewish settler group and
now expected to become Israel’s next prime minister, is open about
his plans for millions living under occupation. A video posted on
his official YouTube page presents a colourfully animated account of
the far-right politician’s plan, with a lighthearted tone that
belies its deeply serious message. “There are some things that we
all know will never happen,” says a narrator in a carefree
voice. “The Sopranos will never return for another season … And a
peace agreement with the Palestinians will not happen.” [ak] | 10/6/2021 |
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| Don’t expect Netanyahu’s departure to alter the course of politics in Israel | | Daniella Peled - the Guardian / Institute for War and Peace
Reporting - It would be encouraging to think that the massive
upheaval afoot in Israeli politics with the unseating of Benjamin
Netanyahu also signals a seismic shift in political culture. Perhaps
a turning point in its democratic decline, even a move towards
ending its rule over millions of Palestinians. Unfortunately, it
signals none of these things. The burning desire to depose Israel’s
longest serving leader is certainly the driving force behind the
disparate eight-party coalition that hopes to replace him. But there
is another factor: the consensus that in determining the future of
the Jewish state, the conflict with the Palestinians can be managed
in perpetuity. Netanyahu, more than any other Israeli leader, has
promoted this idea, cementing it so fast within the national
consciousness that it may be his most enduring legacy. It is a sign
of how invisible the Palestinians now are in Israeli politics that
even the truly historic inclusion of an Arab party in the coalition
has not introduced them on to the agenda. Islamist party Ra’am is
using its four seats to extract some narrow gains for its own
constituency but, like all the other partners, has agreed not to
become entangled in the whole Palestinian issue for the purposes of
avoiding friction. For a long time, the decades-long occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza Strip did play a central role in Israeli
politics and in a national debate over the direction of the Zionist
project. Even after the failure of the Oslo accords, successive
prime ministers at least stayed theoretically loyal to the idea of
implementing a two-state solution. Netanyahu did something
different. He sold Israelis the idea that the occupation of millions
of unwilling Palestinians could be managed as an inconvenience
rather than an existential threat. [ak] | 10/6/2021 |
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| Don’t expect Netanyahu’s departure to alter the course of politics in Israel | | Daniella Peled - The Guardian - None of the coalition leaders has any interest in
resolving the Palestinian issue [ry] | 7/6/2021 |
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| Israel’s New Government Will Deepen Rifts, Not Heal Them | | Jonathan Cook - AntiWar - The symbolic moment of a Palestinian party sitting in
government alongside settler leaders will turn sour all too soon [ry] | 7/6/2021 |
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