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Europe, wake up and smell the coffee
Netanyahu’s Israel openly mocks the values that Europe claims to hold dear. When will European leaders stand up and reject the unacceptable reality of the past 50 years? By Hagai El-Ad European foreign ministers attending Prime Minister Netanyahu’s breakfast in Brussels this Monday may find their thoughts wandering, as the guest of honor once again…
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December 10, 2017
Calling Bibi’s bluff: Why Israel depends on a liberal, open Europe
Netanyahu can bash the EU all he wants. At the end of the day, the future and security of Israel depends on its political and economic ties with the EU, not vice versa. By Eitay Mack (translated from Hebrew by Ofer Neiman) Last Wednesday, the media leaked a recording of a private conversation between Netanyahu and…
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+972 Magazine
July 25, 2017
We don’t have the privilege of being Islamophobic
Israelis tend to warn of the ‘Islamization’ of Europe in the wake of attacks like those in Brussels. But the fear of Muslims in a country where Jews and Muslims must live together is simply not an option. After events like the terrorist attacks in Brussels or Paris, it has become common to hear Israelis…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 22, 2016
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Don’t equate Paris attacks with those in Tel Aviv
Suggestions that terrorism in Paris springs from the same well as terrorism in Israel are misleading and dangerous. Erasing complexity may be a comfort in difficult days like these, but conflating the varying causes of violence won’t help us end it. There are troubled currents flowing from unlikely sources these days. Terror attacks have continued…
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Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 24, 2015
Photos of the week: Asylum seekers march for freedom in Europe and Israel
This week: activists in Europe and in Israel’s Holot detention center mark International Refugee Day with marches for asylum seekers’ rights. Click for +972’s full coverage of the asylum seeker struggle in Israel Photo diary: Inside ‘Holot’ detention center for asylum seekers
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Activestills
June 27, 2014
Is Israel recognizing the Palestinian national unity government after all?
If the Israeli government insists on boycotting the new Palestinian unity government, how can it also insist on pouring money into the Palestinian Authority? By the end of June, Israel is expected to once more sit at the same table as the Palestinian Authority – the same Palestinian Authority that it has been so adamant…
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Haggai Matar
June 11, 2014
Notes from Brussels: Israel, U.S. and the growing European involvement in the conflict
Attendants at a conference on the peace process in Brussels couldn’t believe their ears after what the representative of Israel’s settler party had to say. The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and MP Marietje Schaake of the Netherlands hosted an event in the European Parliament in Brussels on the European Union’s role in the Israel/Palestine…
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Noam Sheizaf
March 22, 2014
Photos of the week: Asylum seeker struggle picks up steam
This week: African asylum seekers continue their struggle in Israel, Afghan asylum seekers march in Brussels, Palestinians block traffic and plant trees, activists promote joint struggle while opposing normalization, visitors express solidarity in the Jordan Valley, and officials demolish homes in South Africa.
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Activestills
January 16, 2014
From prisoner release to home demolitions: A week in photos – October 25-31
This week: Prisoner releases, house demolitions, weekly demonstrations, olive harvests, prayerful protests, and asylum seekers.
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Activestills
November 1, 2013
EU diplomats to Brussels: Put your money where your mouth is
Written in between the lines of the EU heads of mission report on Israeli settlements is a sense of frustration with the EU’s inaction against Israel. The EU makes regular statements against Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise, but takes no action despite the existing tools it has at its disposal. At face value, the European Union…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
February 27, 2013
Heads of Europe’s biggest economies meet in Rome
Rome, Italy — Leaders from Germany, France, Spain and Italy meet in rare 4-way meeting to try to reach consensus on Euro crisis plan ahead of critical summit in Brussels. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, easily the biggest fan of the Euro currency among those who attended the so-called “Mini-EU Summit” alongside her on Friday –…
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Roee Ruttenberg
June 22, 2012
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