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The Israeli right is the minority — the left need only realize it
It’s time for the Jewish left to understand that by aligning its struggle with the Palestinians, it can be part of a majority against occupation and apartheid.
By
Meron Rapoport
January 12, 2023
PODCAST: What happened to the Green Line?
Israeli policies and Palestinian resistance have both served to erode the Green Line over the decades. Has it gone for good?
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
September 16, 2022
The line separating Israel and Palestine has been erased. What comes next?
For 55 years, successive Israeli governments have chipped away at both the idea and reality of the Green Line. Its disappearance finally gives us a chance to open our political imagination and envision the land differently.
By
Meron Rapoport
August 10, 2022
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The myth of the Gaza ‘border’
The Green Line disguises the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer being oppressed outside the Israeli state, but are being caged and brutalized inside it. Palestinian activists have long criticized the use of the word “border” to describe the 1949 armistice line that divides Gaza and Israel, and which protestors in the Great…
By
Amjad Iraqi
May 17, 2018
One state or two states? You’re asking the wrong question
What we desperately need now is to go back to the basics and recognize that guaranteeing Palestinians’ rights is the foundation for any political solution. A new poll reveals that following Trump’s Jerusalem declaration there has been a drop in support for the two-state solution among both Israeli Jews and Palestinians in the occupied territories – with both…
By
Haggai Matar
January 29, 2018
Hundreds of Israelis urge the UN to release ‘settlement blacklist’
The petition, by a group of prominent Israelis, is a cry for help to the international community, asking it to insist on seeing the Green Line no matter how hard the Netanyahu government works to erase it. Over 400 Israelis, including a former attorney general, retired diplomats, ex-members of Knesset, and prominent intellectuals, sent a…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 3, 2017
Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis march to support village encircled by wall
Israel’s separation wall will surround the village on nearly all sides, which will separate its villagers from some 250 acres of agricultural land. Over 500 Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators marched Saturday to protest the construction of the separation wall and house demolitions in the West Bank village of Walaje, south of Jerusalem. The march started at the…
By
Haggai Matar
September 17, 2017
What do Palestinians think of the Green Line?
In the last episode, Rami Younis explored how the Green Line has been effectively erased from the Israeli education system and what that means for the next generation of Israelis. Now he sets out to hear what the Green Lines means for Palestinians.
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Social TV
August 21, 2017
Who’s afraid of the Green Line?
The Green Line, the boundary between Israel and the Palestinian territories recognized by most of the world, has been all but erased by the Israeli education system. Rami Younis, also of +972 Magazine, talks to educators about how it happened, and what it means.
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Social TV
August 18, 2017
WATCH: What do regular Israelis think of the Green Line?
What is the Green Line, and what does it symbolize for regular Israelis? Has the Green Line been forgotten in society’s consciousness? We hit the streets of Tel Aviv to hear what regular Israelis think of the Green Line. Some of their answers might surprise you.
By
Social TV
August 7, 2017
The most satisfied group between the river and the sea
A new poll shows that among Israeli settlers, a striking 74 percent say that conditions in Israel these days are good or very good. The same cannot be said for their Palestinian neighbors. Late Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet voted unanimously to approve the establishment of a new West Bank settlement to be populated…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
April 1, 2017
Settler takeover makes life hell for East Jerusalem Palestinians
In Jerusalem’s Batan al-Hawa neighborhood, Palestinians have been facing a series of ‘quiet’ evictions by state-backed settler organizations. By Amit Gilutz “A police officer named Fares made us stand facing the wall, and kicked our legs hard until we spread them apart. Then he beat us and spoke to us very rudely. He said: ‘Do you want…
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+972 Magazine
February 6, 2017
The Left should stop bickering and support Obama’s abstention
Everyone knew that abstention from the Security Council’s anti-settlement resolution was one of the more realistic options on a very limited menu. So why is the Left now up in arms? U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power barely got the word “abstain” out of her mouth before the liberal left ripped into the…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
December 24, 2016
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