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The judge who designed the legal foundations of Israel’s occupation
No one personifies the Zionist dissonance more than Meir Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court who died last week. He created the legal provisions for the protection of personal rights, while enshrining Israel’s rule over the occupied territories. By Michael Sfard Meir Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court of Israel, died on Oct. 18…
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October 24, 2019
How the media helped turn an innocent Palestinian into a child rapist
Mahmoud Katusa, who was falsely accused of raping a 7-year-old Jewish girl, fell victim to a press and a public atmosphere that views Palestinians as guilty until proven innocent. By Uzi Benziman In order to understand the false allegations against Mahmoud Katusa, a Palestinian man from the West Bank who was wrongfully accused of raping a…
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The Seventh Eye
June 25, 2019
You have the power to stop apartheid: An open letter to AIPAC
American Jews, who play such a central role in what happens in Israel, can put an end to the oppression of Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line. But only if they tell Israelis that enough is enough. By Marzuq al-Halabi Dear AIPAC leaders, In one of his most famous poems, “Think of Others,” Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish…
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March 22, 2019
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The rise of the global far-right could energize the anti-occupation movement
The warm relations between Israel and a new crop of anti-democratic leaders are tragic, but they also expose the true nature of Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians. By Eli Bitan Only hours after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil last Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to phone the extreme-right candidate. Netanyahu accepted Bolsonaro’s invitation to…
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November 4, 2018
The changing relationship between Palestinians on either side of the wall
Despite physical separation and internal divisions, Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line are once again talking about the future of their struggle, and the role that Palestinian citizens of Israel can play. Out of sight from most of the Israeli public, yet under the close watch of the government, an internal debate has been raging within…
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Rami Younis
July 15, 2018
The myth of the Gaza ‘border’
The Green Line disguises the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer being oppressed outside the Israeli state, but are being caged and brutalized inside it. Palestinian activists have long criticized the use of the word “border” to describe the 1949 armistice line that divides Gaza and Israel, and which protestors in the Great…
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Amjad Iraqi
May 17, 2018
One state or two states? You’re asking the wrong question
What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution. A new poll reveals that following Trump’s Jerusalem declaration there has been a drop in support for the two-state solution among both Israeli Jews and Palestinians in the occupied territories – with both…
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Haggai Matar
January 29, 2018
Hundreds of Israelis urge the UN to release ‘settlement blacklist’
The petition, by a group of prominent Israelis, is a cry for help to the international community, asking it to insist on seeing the Green Line no matter how hard the Netanyahu government works to erase it. Over 400 Israelis, including a former attorney general, retired diplomats, ex-members of Knesset, and prominent intellectuals, sent a…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 3, 2017
Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis march to support village encircled by wall
Israel’s separation wall will surround the village on nearly all sides, which will separate its villagers from some 250 acres of agricultural land. Over 500 Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators marched Saturday to protest the construction of the separation wall and house demolitions in the West Bank village of Walaje, south of Jerusalem. The march started at the…
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Haggai Matar
September 17, 2017
What do Palestinians think of the Green Line?
In the last episode, Rami Younis explored how the Green Line has been effectively erased from the Israeli education system and what that means for the next generation of Israelis. Now he sets out to hear what the Green Lines means for Palestinians.
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August 21, 2017
Who’s afraid of the Green Line?
The Green Line, the boundary between Israel and the Palestinian territories recognized by most of the world, has been all but erased by the Israeli education system. Rami Younis, also of +972 Magazine, talks to educators about how it happened, and what it means.
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August 18, 2017
WATCH: What do regular Israelis think of the Green Line?
What is the Green Line, and what does it symbolize for regular Israelis? Has the Green Line been forgotten in society’s consciousness? We hit the streets of Tel Aviv to hear what regular Israelis think of the Green Line. Some of their answers might surprise you.
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August 7, 2017
The most satisfied group between the river and the sea
A new poll shows that among Israeli settlers, a striking 74 percent say that conditions in Israel these days are good or very good. The same cannot be said for their Palestinian neighbors. Late Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet voted unanimously to approve the establishment of a new West Bank settlement to be populated…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
April 1, 2017
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