Eliaz Cohen

WATCH: Settler helps Palestinians acquire building permits

KHIRBET ZAKARIA, WEST BANK – A group of Jews from the Gush Etzion settlement bloc worked for more than half a year to get building permits for their neighbors in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zakaria. Recently, they learned they had succeeded. Israeli authorities announced they will issue new permits for the village, the first…

By Roee Ruttenberg October 21, 2012

Tent protest Aug 13 Photo: Activestills

Who is underneath the tent?

Originally published on August 12, 2011 in The Forward The passing in the Israeli Knesset of the anti-boycott law on July 11 now seems like a long-lost memory, overshadowed by the tent city protests that started just a few days later and have led to hundreds of thousands taking to the streets. It is no…

By Mairav Zonszein August 13, 2011

A settler’s argument for the right of return

By Eliaz Cohen | Translation: Dimi Reider The story of the return of the descendants of the members of Kfar Etzion, a Jewish kibbutz destroyed in the war of 1948, can offer a healing model to the conflict between the two nations in this one country. For over sixty years, Israel’s independence and Palestine’s Nakba…

By +972 Magazine February 20, 2011

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