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Category Archives: One state/Two states
Munayyer in the ‘NYT’: ‘For all the talk about shared values between Israel and the United States, democracy is sadly not one of them’
The New York Times has published a succinct and devastating Op-Ed from Yousef Munayyer on the systemic inequality at the root of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
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‘Fail Again and Fail Better’: Matan Kaminer on J14 Protests in Israel
Max Ajl interviews Matan Kaminer on the state of the left in Israeli society after the controversial J14 social justice protests.
Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained
Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Dershowitz attacked from right for supporting two-state solution
Settlers push the one state paradigm
‘New York Review of Books’ calls it ‘apartheid’ and prepares Americans for the end of the Jewish state
Israel has disenfranchised millions of Palestinians, and robbed them of their dignity and their land, and killed the two state solution — New York Review of Books
Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)
Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Akiva Tor: Arab Spring at fault for blocking a future Palestinian state
Israeli consul general Akiva Tor (above) addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Monday to explain how the Arab Spring hurts hopes for a Palestinian state, settlements don’t hinder the peace process and why BDS is the answer . . . for Iran.
A portrait of a former Zionist (Part 1)
Bill grew up in New York in love with Israel. Then in his 20s he became disaffected. He stayed away but he didn’t ever stop thinking about it. Then at 35 he decided to go back. Here’s the first part of a trip diary (Above: entering the Qalandiya checkpoint).
ICG: The peace process is a ‘collective addiction that serves all manner of needs, reaching an agreement no longer being the main one’
Welcome to the peace process in 2012. Read excerpts from the International Crisis Group report “The Emperor Has No Clothes: Palestinians and the End of the Peace Process.”
‘Let go of two-state solution insanity’ — says Illinois congressman who supports transfer
Palestinians should move to Jordan or accept second class citizenship in Israel, says Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois
Beinart warns Jews that not talking to Palestinians and anti-Zionists ‘makes us stupid’
Tribal dance on the Upper West Side
Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state
Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged A Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israel is a Non-Democratic Apartheid State, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Palestinian Equality Movement, Judah Magnes, Martin Buber, Palestinian Civil Rights Movement, Peter Beinart, right of return, The Crime of Apartheid, The Crisis of Zionism, The Middle East's Only Pretend Democracy
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‘Washington Post’ cartoon mocking future Palestinian state signals crumbling of two-state paradigm
The two state paradigm that was fought for for several decades and then became the regnant idea is crumbling. The question is: what comes next?
Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
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Israel responds to Palestinian call to restart talks by legalizing three West Bank settlement outposts
The outposts, Sansana, Rechelim and Bruchin, were never formally authorized when founded in the 1990s and are still considered illegal under international law.
Obama throws ’67 borders under the (campaign) bus
Last May Obama said that peace deal would be based on ’67 borders. He continues to retreat from the statement
The new landscape: big media cover former Palestinian P.M.’s obit for two-state solution
The old paradigm, two state solution, has collapsed; and Palestinians begin to turn to one-state ideas
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states
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Dana on Beinart: ‘undeterred by unavoidable realities’
Today for the United Arab Emirites’ The National, Joseph Dana reviews Peter Beinart’s milestone book, The Crisis of Zionism.
A European says, You can stick a fork in Israel
My formidable English ex step mother says Israel is finished, there won’t be two states
Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
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Barghouti to U.S. Jews: I know you don’t like the word apartheid, but what do you call a system that gives a settler 50 times more water than a Palestinian?
The only system of segregated roads in the world: you can’t be proud of a system of apartheid in the 21st century, says Mustafa Barghouti
P.A. has lost all its meaning — Abbas
We were willing to accept 22 % of the land. And still that was not enough for you. Abbas is throwing in the towel on his own Palestinian Authority
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states
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One state solution featured on NPR and in Carter ‘IHT’ Op-Ed
As the possibility of a two-state solution fades into the horizon, the discussion of alternatives continues to expand.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states
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Amira Hass explains why Israel’s U.S. model of ethnic cleansing failed, and why ‘Jewish regime’ will ‘crumble’
Israel had a chance to preserve a Jewish state in an Arab neighborhood. It refused the offer and now faces a slow crumbling — Amira Hass
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Politics
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The children of Kufr Qadum: “You arrested our fathers, so we lead the demonstration today”
After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: “You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the Demonstration Today”. The weekly demonstration has again been brutally suppressed by the army, who blacked all entrances to the village, took hold of a home, made use of the “Skunk”, and fired the usual dose of teargas and shock rounds.
Another mainstream voice, Robert Wright, informs Americans that two-state solution is on ‘deathbed’
Americans must be detached about death of two state solution, and not succumb to fears or cozy illusions — Robert Wright at Atlantic
Israeli forces attempt to arrest 2-1/2-year-old Palestinian
Israelis crack down on Kufr Qaddoum, part of Jerusalem municipality on eastern side of separation wall
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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