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The ‘Jerusalem Intifada,’ the president and the cliff
When the Left is right. For years, Cassandras on the Left warned that the festering captivity of the stateless Palestinian population living under military rule would reach a breaking point. There would be a third intifada, maybe a bloodbath. At the very least, said the Left, there would be a drastic collapse of Israel as…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
November 6, 2014
WATCH: Encouraging Europe to label Israeli settlement products
Will Israel’s largest trading partner (the EU) use its economic muscle against Israeli settlements? Some famous former officials from Israel and beyond are calling for just that. The European Union once again dragged its feet on a decision to implement the labeling of products from Israeli settlements this May, in deference to John Kerry’s latest…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
July 1, 2013
Israel’s Memorial Day: A day of mourning and militarism
Today is not only a day of sadness for fallen Israeli soldiers, it’s also one of public declarations that all those bloody conflicts were righteous and necessary – just like the current ones and those that lie ahead. Maybe in another country, a country that goes to war once in a generation or longer, Memorial…
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Larry Derfner
April 15, 2013
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Demystifying one-state, acknowledging facts
The question is no longer about whether one state should be considered, as there is only one state which governs over two people. The question is which kind of state it will be: the left or the right-wing version. The protests a few weeks ago in the West Bank against Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, once the…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
October 9, 2012
Why it’s time to discuss the one-state solution
Secular, binational, and more: there are plenty of one-state models that can and should be discussed. But what’s becoming increasingly clear to figures from both the right and the left is that the feasibility of the two-state solution must be reconsidered. By Yoav Kapshuk It is time to start a public discussion about possible and…
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September 18, 2012
Response to Burg: Israel’s democracy flawed from inception
The New York Times continues to push the myth that Israel was once liberal and democratic, and is now growing detached from these values. Now it publishes an op-ed by a former Knesset speaker, which promotes this notion and similar misconceptions about the United States and the U.S.-Israel relationship. Only a couple of weeks after…
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Roi Maor
August 5, 2012
The strange voyage of Avraham Burg
Avraham Burg was the chairman of the Jewish Agency. Now he speaks of a bi-national solution. What to make of him? I can’t figure Avraham Burg out. I was listening on Wednesday to a debate between him and Peace Now’s director, Yariv Oppenheimer, at Tel Aviv University. To be frank, I came to listen to…
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Yossi Gurvitz
November 6, 2010
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