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On Jerusalem, Trump is proving that the Israeli right was right all along
By recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital the U.S. president is boosting the settlers’ argument that in the long run, ‘facts on the ground’ are more important than diplomacy, and that Israel will eventually win legitimacy for its actions — even unilateral annexation. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is said to have hesitated before ordering the…
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Noam Sheizaf
December 6, 2017
Decades of failed peace talks: How Israel negotiates with itself
For 50 years Israel has maintained full control over the entire land, economy, borders, movement and natural resources between the river and the sea. The only thing Palestinians have to offer Israel in peace talks is international legitimacy. But Israel doesn’t need peace to gain legitimacy — it needs an endless peace process.
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Noam Sheizaf
June 28, 2017
Israelis, Palestinians are ready to accept international consensus
For the first time since 1967, both the Israeli public and the Palestinians are likely to accept an outline for a final-status agreement based on international law. By Shmuel Lederman A recent poll conducted by the The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research and the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion on an outline for a…
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May 6, 2017
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Kerry implicitly acknowledges two states is all but a fantasy now
The Secretary of State asked if they really wanted to live with the moral consequences of a one-state reality. He doesn’t understand this isn’t an issue that preoccupies the average Jewish citizen of Israel. Over the past three decades Israel has seen seven prime ministers (and several more elections), political assassinations, two intifadas, a peace…
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Lisa Goldman
December 30, 2016
WATCH: Bringing peace back to the streets
What happens when you get regular Israelis and Palestinians together to resolve the conflict? That’s what 500 Israelis and Palestinians decided to find out this past summer — in the middle of Tel Aviv.
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October 16, 2016
Don’t call it a comeback: Really, please don’t come back
Ehud Barak isn’t the ‘only hope’ to defeat Netanyahu. He is, however, the most dangerous prime minister Israel has ever had. It seems Ehud Barak is planning a return to politics: posters have appeared calling on him to “run” (where exactly is unclear), and now even Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy reluctantly voiced the opinion that…
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Dimi Reider
September 8, 2016
Why the Abbas KGB ‘revelation’ came out now
Israeli academic who fed the story to the press tells the ‘NY Times’ he wanted to undercut the Kremlin’s efforts to host Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Israel’s Channel 1 News broadcast a story Wednesday night alleging that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent in Damascus 33 years ago. The story, for obvious reasons, was picked up…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 8, 2016
Violence is the strongest imperative to keep fighting for peace
With no peace process on the horizon, the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv this week is a reminder that we don’t have the luxury of giving up on a future in which Palestinians and Israelis alike can feel secure in their own homes, streets and cafes. Almost six years ago, Hillary Clinton was getting ready…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
June 9, 2016
Oslo has become a tool for Israeli expansionism — it’s time to let go
The Oslo Accords have been manipulated for the unspoken goal of Jewish annexation of West Bank land. So long as both governments adhere to this failed system, they will be unable to pursue a real peace agreement. By Nathan Hersh The Oslo Accords are the banner accomplishment of the Israeli peace movement. But their impact on…
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October 3, 2015
Why EU recognition of Palestine isn’t enough
If the European Union wants to play a more active role in Israel-Palestine peacemaking it should first articulate a common policy and decide whether it can continue playing second fiddle to Washington. By Charalampos Tsitsopoulos Much has been made of recent European initiatives to symbolically recognize a Palestinian state in pre-1967 borders. On December 17,…
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January 21, 2015
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…
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Roi Maor
September 16, 2014
Everything Elliott Abrams knows about Israeli settlements is wrong
The Israeli government uses the pretext of the two-state solution’s inevitability to justify building settlements on Palestinian land, all without ever earnestly seeking a two-state solution. Imagine that the Palestinian Authority announced that based on an offer made by Israel in past peace negotiations — and irrespective of the result of those negotiations — it was…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 7, 2014
Netanyahu explains how he stood up to the U.S., kept building settlements
‘Peace talks? What peace talks,’ the Israeli prime minister jokes with supporters from his party. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted of his settlement building achievements in a recent meeting with young Likud supporters. Responding to a question from the audience, Netanyahu said: “I was threatened in Washington: ‘not one brick’ [of settlement construction] ……
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Noam Sheizaf
May 25, 2014
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