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In ‘breathtaking’ UN vote, Obama changed his policy on Israeli settlements, making them a war crime — Finkelstein
US Politics Philip Weiss on January 4, 2017
A general view of  Jewish housing in the Israeli settlement Har Homa, West Bank, February 18, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday in an attempt to prevent the upcoming vote on an United Nations resolution condemning Israeli settlements. The Palestinian Authority and other Arab nations have pushed for the UN Security Council to vote on the resolution which is scheduled to take place today.  UPI/Debbie Hill

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Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won

Middle East Tom Suarez on January 1, 2017
Initial reports on King David Hotel bombing said 50 dead; the blast killed 91. But as Suárez explains in State of Terror (p 146), the King David bombing was not, as is commonly believed, the most deadly terror attack of the pre-state period.

Terror was vital to the establishment of Israel. David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann planned for large numbers of Arabs to be expelled to assure a Jewish majority. When non-Zionist British Jew Robert Waley Cohen suggested that the new state should be named with a neutral geographic term, ‘Palestine’, Ben-Gurion and Weizmann were horrified at the idea.

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Resolution for 2017: Stop substituting ‘the occupation’ for ‘Zionism’

Activism Nada Elia on December 31, 2016
The Israeli flag flying over Israeli settlements in the West Bank (Photo: Reuters)

Language matters because it impacts how we think of reality. Nada Elia’s New Year’s Resolution, which she hopes millions of others will also make, is to stop substituting “the occupation” for “Zionism.” She writes, “The era of discussing the occupation as the presumed greater Israeli evil is over, and should be tossed into the trash heap of history. As we celebrate the discursive change around Palestine, we must be cautious no longer to speak or write about “the occupation” except as one of the many varied facets of Zionism. Palestinians cannot afford any more erasures, as these are extremely detrimental to our cause, to justice. And just as we realize that the two-state “solution” was never a viable option, we must also inscribe into our new discourse that the occupation was never the problem. Zionism is.”

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Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won

Tom Suarez on January 1, 2017 | |
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Resolution for 2017: Stop substituting ‘the occupation’ for ‘Zionism’

Nada Elia on December 31, 2016 | |
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Netanyahu’s holy war, and the coming Jewish schism

Yakov Hirsch on December 31, 2016 | |
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Why Obama waited 8 years to take on Netanyahu

Philip Weiss on December 29, 2016 | |
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The formal end of the two-state solution

Roland Nikles on December 28, 2016 | |
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John Kerry gives the ‘separate but not equal’ speech to Israel

James North and Philip Weiss on December 28, 2016 | |
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My journey connecting indigenous movements: How Mondoweiss broadens our understanding of the struggle

Nadya Raja Tannous on December 28, 2016 | |
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Israeli hysteria over UN vote is solidifying country’s new status, as a rogue state

Philip Weiss on December 27, 2016 | |
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Scenes from a neoconservative meltdown

Adam Horowitz on December 26, 2016 | |

Israel / Palestine

Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh
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The challenges of being a Palestinian doctor in the ‘Jewish state’

Hatim Kanaaneh on January 3, 2017
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Waqf: 14,806 Israeli settler incursions on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in 2016

Kate on January 2, 2017
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Scenes from Gaza on the last day of 2016

Mohammed Asad on December 31, 2016

Middle East

Foreign ministers 100 years apart: Arthur Balfour of Britain and John Kerry of the U.S. (r)
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John Kerry picked the wrong timeline for the Jewish state

Jonathan Ofir on January 3, 2017
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Hamas celebrates 29th anniversary amid local and international challenges

Isra Saleh El-Namy on January 3, 2017
104

Terrorism: How the Israeli state was won

Tom Suarez on January 1, 2017

US Politics

Sgt. Elor Azaria, surrounded by army friends, earlier occasion
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After Israeli soldier is convicted of manslaughter, Times and Post portray case as isolated incident

James North and Philip Weiss on January 4, 2017
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In ‘breathtaking’ UN vote, Obama changed his policy on Israeli settlements, making them a war crime — Finkelstein

Philip Weiss on January 4, 2017
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Love in the age of Trump

Robert Cohen on January 3, 2017

Activism

Issa Amro speaking at an 'Open Shuhada Street' protest in Hebron.
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Why you should join the 8th annual International Open Shuhada Street Campaign

Issa Amro on January 3, 2017
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Resolution for 2017: Stop substituting ‘the occupation’ for ‘Zionism’

Nada Elia on December 31, 2016
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Rallies in 25 cities say ‘No to Islamophobia; No to Racism: Yes to Justice’

Donna Nevel on December 26, 2016

Features

Elor Azaria
Features

Sgt. Elor Azaria executed an incapacitated Palestinian in the street in Hebron in March, 2016. The case has divided Israel and tells us much about the country today.

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After Israeli soldier is convicted of manslaughter, Times and Post portray case as isolated incident

James North and Philip Weiss on January 4, 2017
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Netanyahu’s holy war, and the coming Jewish schism

Yakov Hirsch on December 31, 2016
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Azaria’s conviction will end a totalitarian ideology

Yakov Hirsch on December 14, 2016
93

The power of hasbara culture

Yakov Hirsch on November 5, 2016
26

It’s war between Netanyahu and the generals (and the PM may just have lost the corporal)

Yakov Hirsch on September 8, 2016
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Video: Soldier appears to kick knife closer to accused Hebron attacker before his death

Mondoweiss Editors on June 14, 2016
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Israeli medic charged in Hebron killing says Palestinian cameraman edited video of execution, experts disagree

Kate on June 9, 2016
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Two Palestinians were executed on Hebron street in March, not just one — B’Tselem

Philip Weiss on June 7, 2016
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Hebron victim is buried 2 months after Israeli medic killed him, but medic’s lawyers wants him disinterred

Kate on May 30, 2016
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Elor Azarya, King of Israel

Dan Cohen on May 4, 2016

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Waqf: 14,806 Israeli settler incursions on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in 2016

Kate on January 2, 2017
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Israeli forces killed 31 Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank in 2016

Kate on December 27, 2016
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Israeli soldiers sentenced to three months community service for killing unarmed Palestinian teen

Kate on December 22, 2016
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15-year-old Ahed Tamimi denied visa by State Dept for US speaking tour

Kate on December 20, 2016
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Israeli settlers celebrating weekly Torah portion smash Hebron shop windows

Kate on November 29, 2016
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Israeli settlements put on hold due to US pressure may be restarted

Kate on November 21, 2016
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‘Welcome to the bi-national state’: Livni says Knesset bill to legalize settlement outposts sets stage for annexing West Bank

Kate on November 17, 2016

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