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The dwindling promise of popular uprisings in the Middle East
From Iran to Palestine, protest movements are fighting regimes that have grown stronger and smarter since the Arab Spring. Can this time be different?
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Tariq Kenney-Shawa
November 16, 2022
Noam Chomsky: Solidarity movements key to changing US Middle East policy
From nuclear disarmament to Palestinian rights, Noam Chomsky discusses the need to disrupt authoritarian alliances and an entrenching 'Greater Israel.'
By
Lilach Ben David
February 17, 2021
As Mideast borders open, Israel is more isolated than ever
Over the past decade, Middle Eastern countries have viewed their borders as a physical obstacle. The recent warming of relations between Arab states has led to increase in trade, leaving Israel more regionally isolated than ever before. By Moran Zaga Over the last month, border crossings have opened along both the Jordan-Iraq and Iraq-Saudi Arabia…
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September 18, 2017
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The false story Israel tells itself about the Middle East
According to Israel’s leaders, the Middle East is made up of primitive tribespeople and Islamic radicals who cannot be negotiated with. They’re wrong. By Idan Barir and Ori Goldberg Nearly a month ago, a hearing at the Knesset’s State Control Committee that looked into the State Comptroller’s report on Israel’s handling of Operation Protective Edge,…
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May 27, 2017
Downstairs, from heavenly Aleppo
Aleppo, your stories will come back to my ears, like a child who sits on his grandmother’s knees. By Mati Shemoelof Aleppo, I, Matityaho Ibn Shifra, your old daughter, a grandson of your Arab-Jews, mourn the erasure of your city of poetry, Aleppo, how did they forget to save your libraries? Aleppo, was it not…
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February 18, 2017
What is Israel’s place in the Middle East?
It’s time for Israel to recognize that it can coexist with its neighbors without fear or feelings of superiority. Academia can lead the way. By Assaf David The perception of Israel as a foreign entity in the Middle East, hence a fortress under threat, is shared by all major purveyors of knowledge and discourse in the…
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September 6, 2016
It is time to rebuild ties between Mizrahim and the Arab world
Five years after Mizrahi Israelis offered their solidarity to the young men and women of the Arab Spring, it is time to say it loud and clear: real peace will come once we recognize the deep cultural and religious ties between Jews and Muslims of the region. By Almog Behar Five years ago in April…
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Haokets
March 1, 2016
From Haifa to Beirut: ’48 Palestinians challenge regional isolation
It is difficult to comprehend what it means for Palestinians who have only an Israeli passport to live in the Middle East, isolated from the region around them. An interview with one of a handful of activists challenging that reality by crossing seemingly forbidden borders.
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 20, 2016
The Beaten Path: Seeking refuge in Eilat (part 9)
Israel was borne of a need to escape a violent Europe. Now Israelis feel a constant need to escape a violent Israel. The deconstructed tourist trail reaches the deepest south, which is where they often go. Part nine of Yuval Ben-Ami’s journey through the Holy Land’s most popular tourist sites. Off the Sinai smuggling routes, there’s…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
December 4, 2014
‘Forward’ editor: Compare Israel only to Mideast states
Just because Sisi and Assad are close by doesn’t mean their disgusting policies seep through the border and infiltrate the Israeli system, poisoning our minds. Why not compare ourselves to countries we actually want to be more like? I gotta tell you, I’m really tired of this. I’m tired of Jewish right wingers in Israel and…
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Ami Kaufman
June 26, 2014
Israelis welcomed in Doha Forum in Qatar
The last thing I would have expected in Qatar was to hear Hebrew as I walked through the corridors of the Doha Convention Center. The next scene was no less bizarre, in a country where few Israelis and Jews visit: Rabbis with kippahs on their heads. The Israeli and Jewish presence seemed acceptable and even…
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Aziz Abu Sarah
December 14, 2011
Israel drops democracy for membership in elite Mideast club
There’s an upside to the story: Israel’s move away from democracy means a move toward the non-democratic regimes of the Middle East, and thus toward peace. The Israeli Knesset is in the midst of approving a number of controversial legislative initiatives. Some of the these aim to subject the Supreme Court to right-wing ideology; others…
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Aziz Abu Sarah
November 15, 2011
Young Mizrahi Israelis’ open letter to Arab peers
Translated from Hebrew; English edited by Chana Morgenstern | Arabic version here In a letter titled “Ruh Jedida: A New Spirit for 2011,” young Jewish descendants of the Arab and Islamic world living in Israel write to their peers in the Middle East and North Africa We, as the descendents of the Jewish communities of the Arab…
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April 24, 2011
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