Category Archives: One state/Two states

Children in Nabi Saleh play their favorite game called ‘Mustafa Tamimi’ during weekly protests

this is the game #NabiSaleh kids were playing yesterday..the one called #MustafaTamimi facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… it’s their fave from what i hear — Linah Alsaafin (@LinahAlsaafin) January 21, 2012 Attacks on Protests Against Land Theft / Land, Property Theft & Destruction / … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | 4 Comments

Zbig says Israelis ‘buy influence’ in Congress and play Obama

Blunt comment by Brzezinski — Israel ‘buys influence’ in the Congress and plays Obama– signals shift toward open discussion of Israel lobby

Posted in Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 19 Comments

RNC resolution calls for one state (on God-given lands)

Republican Committee adopts resolution echoing Gingrich/Santorum: there are no Palestinians, no occupation, it’s all Israel’s land

Posted in Israel Lobby, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 31 Comments

EU diplomats propose boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli colonialism

A report sent to the EU by its member countries’ top diplomats in Jerusalem and Ramallah proposed state-level boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel’s illegal colonial infrastructure in the occupied West Bank.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 5 Comments

Military trial for 17-year-old girl, charged with… Spilling Water on Soldier

  Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh from Mufakarah. Charge: Spilling Water on Soldier, Assaf Oron As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 6 Comments

Benny Morris dreams of a ‘less Arab’ Israel

George Bisharat: two-state solution is dead, and two intermingled peoples must imagine ways of living with one another

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged | 105 Comments

“Didn’t we learn anything from 1938?’ Wasserman Schultz’s opposition says Palestinians belong in Jordan

Karen Harrington is taking on Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida, and says the two state solution is already in place: Israel and Jordan

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 72 Comments

‘Where ya from?’: On-the-street interviews with Jewish Israelis

The guy who starts about 28 seconds in certainly had his talking points ready:

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, Reports/Video | 20 Comments

Hey Quartet, Netanyahu left a note for you on the door

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East | 9 Comments

Lieberman plan to strip Palestinian citizenship mirrors liberal demographic fear mongering

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is in the press again for suggesting that Palestinian citizens of Israel should be stripped of Israeli citizenship under a two-state agreement. But how different is this from liberal advocates who warn of a Palestinian “demographic threat”?

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, One state/Two states | 14 Comments

National park land-grabs from two East Jerusalem neighborhoods

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Two Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, Al-Isawiyyah (above) and Al-Tur, are slated to lose swathes of land to a new national park. The park will create a barrier between the two neighborhoods and expand Israeli control over this strategic, and highly contested, area of the West Bank.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states | Tagged | 9 Comments

Mixed messages from Syrian National Council on U.S., Israel

This article first appeared on the Arabist. According to Reuters, the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria – the two largest opposition coalitions in Syria – signed on the last Friday of 2011 … Continue reading

Posted in Arab Spring, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Media, Middle East, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 14 Comments

F. W. de Klerk on why apartheid will fail in Israel/Palestine

F. W. de Klerk compares apartheid South Africa to the two state solution, and explains why it failed in South Africa.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, One state/Two states | Tagged | 120 Comments

Santorum is a one-stater– he says all of West Bank is Israel

Rick Santorum says the West Bank is part of Israel the way that New Mexico is the U.S. – “There is no Palestinian, this is Israeli land.”

Posted in Israel Lobby, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 111 Comments

VIDEO: Activists protest massive new Shu’fat checkpoint

Palestinian residents of Shu’fat refugee camp and Israeli activists protest the new Jerusalem checkpoint that compromises the residency status of 50,000 Palestinians.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states, Reports/Video | 3 Comments

Israel’s mythological borders: an interview with Rachel Havrelock

Filmmaker David Zlutnick interviews professor Rachel Havrelock on her latest book River Jordan: The Mythology of a Dividing Line, and the differences between biblical geographic borders and the contemporary borders defined by state of Israel.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, One state/Two states | Tagged | 89 Comments

‘Haaretz’ columnist says 2-state solution is dead–and global community must help us toward equal rights

International movement for equality can redeem Israel and Palestine from apartheid, says Haaretz columnist

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states, US Politics | 96 Comments

Nada, zilch, finito– the media snowjob of mass proportions

US media’s sudden interest in the struggle over Orthodox practice in Israel is a giant distraction from the real issue: seizing Jerusalem

Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 54 Comments

Three years since Cast Lead

Four children in the al Samouni family use animated drawings to share what happened to their family during the Israeli attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 3 Comments

It’s one country

Israeli Supreme Court allows mining to continue in occupied West Bank– almost all the minerals go to Israelis

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, One state/Two states | 9 Comments

Two critiques of Norman Finkelstein

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Norman Finkelstein, long a leader on discussion of the Israel/Palestine issue, has had differences with some activists over political questions.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states | 218 Comments

UK, France, Germany and Portugal condemn Israeli plan to build 1,000 new settlements homes

The UK, France, Germany and Portugal issued a joint statement today requesting that Israel cease all settlement construction in both East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 33 Comments

Eldar: ethnocentrism has called on religious and secular alike

Akiva Eldar recognizes that hunger for land and Jewish ownership have driven both secular and religious in Israel

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, One state/Two states | 15 Comments

What my God chip says about Jerusalem

Yonah Fredman has posted here before and comments under the nom-de-blog wondering jew. He lived in Israel for 4 years 8 months and 16 days and has been back in the states for about half a year. After a virtual … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states | 23 Comments

Obama’s rabbi sidekick is opposed to ‘too many Arabs’ in Israel

On December 16, President Barack Obama delivered a major address to the Union for Reform Judaism, the national umbrella for America’s largest liberal Jewish denomination. Obama’s speech was a naked appeal for campaign donations and re-election votes, with the standard … Continue reading

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, One state/Two states, US Politics | 56 Comments