Tag Archives: Analysis

Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution (George Bisharat, Washington Post)

For decades, the international community has assumed that historic Palestine must be divided between Jews and Palestinians. Yet no satisfactory division of the land has been reached. Israel has aggravated the problem by settling roughly 500,000 Jews in...
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Negotiating with the Israeli Settlers (Rashid Khalidi, The New York Times)

If the Obama administration accepts the myth that dismantling settlements is impossible for Israel, there are no prospects for peace. The settlements are ille...
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Palestinians skeptical of new round of peace talks (Edmund Sanders, The Los Angeles Times)

Independent Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti said Abbas was putting too much faith in President Obama's ability to secure a deal within a year. "There...
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A state of equality (Diana Buttu, Bitterlemons.org)

Support for the "one-state" concept must not simply be a default outcome resulting from failure of the two-state approach, but rather an outcome that strives ...
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Settlement must stop (Khaled Amayreh, Al-Ahram Weekly)

It is unlikely that Washington, with all its cumulative experience with things Middle Eastern doesn't realise the near impossibility of reaching a true histor...
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Hamas, the I.R.A. and us (Ali Abunimah, The New York Times)

The resumption of peace talks without any Israeli commitment to freeze settlements is another significant victory for the Israel lobby and the Israeli governm...
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‘McCarthyism’ rises in Israel (Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler, Inter Press Service)

Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israel...
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Top 10 Reasons for Skepticism on Israeli-Palestinian Talks (Josh Ruebner, The Huffington Post)

On August 20, the Obama Administration announced that it will reconvene under its auspices direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations beginning on Septembe...
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Facing jail, the unarmed activist who dared to take on Israel (Donald Macintyre, The Independent)

Baroness Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, yesterday issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Israel over a military court's conviction of a Palestinian activ...
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This math class may figure out Israel (Eva Bartlett, Inter Press Service)

Gaza's Ministry of Education and Higher Education in 2009 reported that following the Israeli war on Gaza, school performance and attendance dropped due to th...
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