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Plenty of talk about ‘peace,’ little commitment
When leaders from center-left aren’t willing to deepen the struggle against the occupation, it’s hard not to feel that they, too, prefer the status quo. Notes from the Haaretz Conference for Peace. The most genuine moments at Thursday’s Haaretz Conference on Peace came from two right-wing speakers — Yariv Levin and Ze’ev Elkin, both ministers…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 13, 2015
The ‘Jewish Nation-State Law’: Turning liberal Zionism on its head
Cementing the supremacy of national group rights over individual minority rights upends the precarious balance between Jewish and democratic, upon which liberal Zionism relies. For the ‘Nation-State Law’s authors and political patrons, however, this is just the beginning. Liberal Zionists of all stripes tend to have one thing in common: the belief — or at…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
November 28, 2014
Bill aims to strip citizenship, curb speech — a bellwether of Israel’s Right
A senior Likud MK is proposing to suspend much of Israeli democracy. His bill has zero chance of passing muster, but it does show where the Israeli Right thinks the future of the conflict lies. MK Yariv Levin (Likud), chairman of the House Parliamentary Committee, is pushing a new directive — temporary legislation — to “combat…
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Dimi Reider
November 26, 2014
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Refusal by elite IDF reservists angrily dismissed as ‘political’
Following the public refusal of 43 reservists of the IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit, politicians and other veterans of the unit have openly denounced the reservists, viewing their refusal as an unacceptable politicization of their army service. Political leaders both from the government and the opposition condemned 43 reservists from Israel’s prestigious 8200 intelligence unit who stated their refusal to take…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
September 14, 2014
Kidnapping is proof the occupation can’t protect Israelis
Israelis deserve a leadership that is capable of interrupting the cycle of violence; they deserve more than juvenile assurances of retaliation. By Nathan Hersh Last month MKs Yariv Levin (Likud) and Orit Strock (Jewish Home) submitted a series of bills seeking to annex Area C of the West Bank to Israel. What would things look…
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June 21, 2014
Law dividing Christians, Muslims is a classic colonial tactic
Instead of promoting equality and the non-racialization of citizenship in Israel, right-wing MKs are adopting a classic colonial law to weaken the non-Jewish community’s ‘threat’ to the country’s ethnic order. The Knesset this week enacted a new law that legally distinguishes between Christian and Muslim citizens of Israel regarding employment opportunities. Though the law does…
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Amjad Iraqi
February 28, 2014
New law dividing Christian, Muslim Arabs legalizes inequality
Israel ratified a new law that legally distinguishes between Muslim and Christian citizens of the state, Haaretz reported Monday. The bill, which easily passed by a 31-6 vote in its third and final reading, recognizes the Christian Arab population as a separate, though not national minority for the first time. The law, which expands the Advisory…
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Mairav Zonszein
February 25, 2014
Having never asked, Israel’s gov’t ‘surprised’ Bedouin reject Prawer
Israeli coalition leader Yariv Levin predicted that the cabinet will likely throw out the current version of the Prawer Plan, hours after former minister and co-architect of the plan Benny Begin clarified that he never said Bedouin supported the plan, as some Knesset members originally perceived. “I wish to again make clear that contrary to what…
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Mairav Zonszein
December 10, 2013
See the Prawer Plan map Israel’s government was keeping secret
Former minister Benny Begin, who helped draft the Prawer Plan, denies saying Israel’s Bedouin support the plan: How could they if they never even saw it? (Click the map to enlarge.) Until now, nobody knew the extent of the Prawer-Begin Plan. No government official or statement has detailed how many Bedouin citizens will be displaced,…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 9, 2013
Jerusalem bill: A return to anti-democratic legislation?
By a 5-4 majority, a ministerial committee on Sunday approved a bill that proposes to require 80 Knesset members to approve any negotiations about the future of Jerusalem before the issue can even be discussed in peace talks, as reported by Israeli press. It sounds like a technicality: the bill is far from passing as…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
October 22, 2013
Abbas performs the peace dance
Jewish leaders remain unmoved by this year’s performance. From the events of the previous week: Prominent Israeli coalition members – including heads of different Knesset committees – published an ad in Haaretz, calling on Netanyahu to oppose any sort of territorial compromise. Netanyahu’s collation chairman, Likud’s Yariv Levin, told Al-Monitor that his boss will cease…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 24, 2013
Israeli Arabs should do national service – for everyone’s sake
It would do wonders for equality and integration, and Israeli Arabs seem willing to volunteer, but they’re being pounded from both sides by Arab and Jewish nationalists. In principle, I don’t think there would be anything unjust in going so far as to draft Israeli Arab youths to do a year or two of civilian…
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Larry Derfner
June 17, 2013
Settler leader calls new Israeli government ‘a wet dream’
The new Netanyahu coalition will give settlers and their supporters more executive power than any previous government in Israel has until now. With the Housing and Industry ministries in their hand, and political ally Moshe Ya’alon as the new defense minister, the settlers are very pleased by the new Netanyahu government. Head of the Samaria region (the…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 16, 2013
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