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For UN Mideast envoy, ‘peace’ meant placating apartheid
By playing to Israel's interests and ignoring power asymmetries, Nickolay Mladenov helped to normalize the oppressive regime ruling over Palestinians.
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Inès Abdel Razek
January 22, 2021
A most determined occupation and its cursed victory
It is not momentum or errors or personality quirks which have sustained the occupation, but a clear determination by Israel’s elite to maintain control of the West Bank and Gaza. Those who are willing to openly examine how Israel – and the pre-state Zionist Jewish community in the Holy Land – conducted itself prior to…
By
Roi Maor
September 16, 2014
The ever-shrinking Kerry peace process
Once again, Prime Minister Netanyahu is allowed to avoid Israel’s moment of truth. When the new round of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced a solid framework for the process: nine months of dialogue, by the end of which the parties will need to sign a…
By
Noam Sheizaf
February 9, 2014
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Lapid’s platform: No compromise over Jerusalem, no settlement freeze
On the Palestinian issue, the new leader of the Israeli center holds positions that take several steps back from ideas held by Israeli negotiators in the previous decade. The surprising success of Yair Lapid in the Israeli elections has led many people to believe that a new window of opportunity could be open for a…
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Noam Sheizaf
January 26, 2013
One or two states? The status quo is Israel’s rational choice
The secret to understanding Israeli political behavior lies in the widespread (and fundamentally evident) notion that any change to the status quo is likely to bring more harm than good. Even passionate advocates of Israeli policy wonder at times – often in private, but sometimes also in public – why the Israeli government doesn’t show…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 24, 2012
Reports of Israeli readiness to negotiate an insult
Ever so often, when it seems like too much time has passed since someone has addressed the “peace process,” there is suddenly a meeting followed by reports that nothing has actually changed but that there is sober optimism that Israelis and Palestinians are ready to negotiate. The latest news — following meetings in Jordan where…
By
Mairav Zonszein
January 17, 2012
Israelis, Palestinians to march in joint call for Palestinian statehood
By Eitan Grossman ‘Only Free Men Can Negotiate’ – Nelson Mandela This Friday (July 15, 2011), thousands of Palestinians and Israelis will march together in Jerusalem to express their support for international recognition of the unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence. Thousands of Palestinians and Israelis will take part in a historic march organized by…
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+972 Magazine
July 14, 2011
Rightwing MK’s distorted annexation argument
Danny Danon has a howler of an op ed in the New York Times today, arguing that Israel should annex the Jewish settlements in the West Bank before the Palestinians have a chance to declare (and maybe receive) statehood in September. The argument is so flimsy that it crumbles if you touch it. Take his…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
May 19, 2011
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