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A most determined occupation and its cursed victory
It is not momentum or errors or personality quirks which have sustained the occupation, but a clear determination by Israel’s elite to maintain control of the West Bank and Gaza. Those who are willing to openly examine how Israel – and the pre-state Zionist Jewish community in the Holy Land – conducted itself prior to…
By
Roi Maor
September 16, 2014
The ever-shrinking Kerry peace process
Once again, Prime Minister Netanyahu is allowed to avoid Israel’s moment of truth. When the new round of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced a solid framework for the process: nine months of dialogue, by the end of which the parties will need to sign a…
By
Noam Sheizaf
February 9, 2014
Is the Obama administration cooking up ‘Oslo 3’?
More and more reports are suggesting that the U.S. is planning to put forward an offer that would end the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Martin Indyk, the American envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, gave an hour-long address at the end of the J Street Conference in Washington last month. Indyk said nothing about the talks…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 4, 2013
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Jordan Valley fence would finalize the West Bank’s complete enclosure
In what might be a shot to the heart of current peace negotiations, Netanyahu is reviving plans to build a ‘security fence’ in the Jordan Valley. If the fence follows the original route it will enclose any future Palestinian state, cement impossible Bantustan borders and give birth to a new map of Israel’s borders. Ten years…
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Haggai Matar
November 3, 2013
Between the murder of Israeli civilians and the ongoing violence of occupation
A settler in the Jordan Valley was killed in his yard Thursday night. This is the third such incident in the West Bank in less than a month. A retired Israeli colonel was killed in his home last night (Thursday) in the Brosh Habika settlement in the Jordan Valley. The incident brings the number of…
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Noam Sheizaf
October 11, 2013
Yair Lapid reveals true nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
During a recent interview with Charlie Rose in New York, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid tacitly reveals why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict endures and why Israel will only accept peace on its own terms. Over the past week or so, as the United Nations General Assembly brought leaders from around the world to New York, several…
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Omar H. Rahman
October 9, 2013
The man who sold the world: Dr. Erekat is back
The sad but true story of chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat. Can the hero of the Palestine Papers survive another round of peace talks? By Hakim Bishara There was a time, back in the 1990s, when inveterate Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat was on top of his game. Confident, eloquent and dolled up with…
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September 30, 2013
In the West Bank, a new settlement is born
Settlers are celebrating ‘the first official settlement in 20 years.’ Housing Minister: ‘There are no two states, and there won’t be two states.’ The regional council for Jewish settlements in the northern part of the West Bank (Samaria) celebrated on Sunday the construction of a new settlement called Leshem, located in the western part of…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 26, 2013
The peace industry’s slippery slope
The Left is mobilizing around the process while ignoring troubling signs: the dangerous dynamic of the Oslo/Camp David period is already here. On Wednesday night, as members of the Israeli Knesset were getting ready to vote on a package of amendments that could push the Palestinian parties out of the Israeli parliament, political activists were…
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Noam Sheizaf
August 2, 2013
Endgame: Conditions for the success and failure of the peace process
What does the possibly-revived peace process John Kerry announced on Friday have going for it? – “Diplomatic Tsunami” – a catch-phrase that stands for high-level global isolation of Israel as punishment for its policies is the great fear on everyone’s mind in Israel this week. Israel is smarting from a recent spate of symbolic blows…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
July 20, 2013
National independence and sharing the land
It’s time to acknowledge that the paradigm based on the notion that ‘we are here and they are there,’ is no longer feasible. What’s needed is a shift from a separation paradigm to one of sharing. By Riman Barakat and Dan Goldenblatt As President Obama’s arrives for a visit to Israel and Palestine, many Palestinians…
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March 20, 2013
Giving the occupation an expiration date
A way out of the diplomatic dead end. By Dahlia Scheindlin and Noam Sheizaf The Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process has reached a dead end. The two-state paradigm has been deemed unrealistic so many times, that mentioning it creates cynicism and bitterness in both societies. But a generally agreed alternative to the principle of partition has not yet emerged.…
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March 19, 2013
Lapid’s platform: No compromise over Jerusalem, no settlement freeze
On the Palestinian issue, the new leader of the Israeli center holds positions that take several steps back from ideas held by Israeli negotiators in the previous decade. The surprising success of Yair Lapid in the Israeli elections has led many people to believe that a new window of opportunity could be open for a…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 26, 2013
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