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The forgotten role of Palestinian citizens in Israel’s coalition wars
Contrary to popular belief, Arab parties have been backing prime ministerial candidates for decades. But what did they gain from the political game?
By
Wadea Awawdy
October 27, 2022
Forget Trump: Israel’s sordid history of supporting dictatorships
Netanyahu’s silence in the face of the White House’s anti-Semitism should surprise no one. From Argentina to Rwanda, Israel has a sordid history of providing weapons and support to murderous dictatorships. By Eitay Mack (translated by Ofer Neiman) The Netanyahu government was silent in January when the Trump Administration omitted any reference to Jewish victims from…
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August 27, 2017
Decades of failed peace talks: How Israel negotiates with itself
For 50 years Israel has maintained full control over the entire land, economy, borders, movement and natural resources between the river and the sea. The only thing Palestinians have to offer Israel in peace talks is international legitimacy. But Israel doesn’t need peace to gain legitimacy — it needs an endless peace process.
By
Noam Sheizaf
June 28, 2017
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The settlers’ goal is not the settlements
It is the total transformation of Israel. The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to…
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Noam Sheizaf
June 8, 2017
Israelis will pay the price for shunning Palestine’s Shimon Peres
One day Mahmoud Abbas, who suppresses his own people to protect Israelis, will also pass away. That’s when the Palestinian pressure cooker will explode. Arabs and Jews in Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world at large, I promise you that next time Shimon Peres dies, Joint List head Ayman Odeh and the rest of the Joint…
By
Samah Salaime
October 9, 2016
Colombia’s Israel connection: Peacemaking and the Peace Prize
If the Nobel committee sought to move the needle on Colombian peace by honoring one of its auteurs, they might do well to remember a similar experiment that is all-too-familiar to observers in the Middle East. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring…
By
Samer Badawi
October 8, 2016
Now that Peres is gone, it’s time the Zionist Left did some soul searching
Instead of condemning Arab MKs for boycotting Peres’ funeral, Zionist Left parties should ask themselves why Palestinian citizens don’t trust them. Why are so many Jews in Israel disappointed and angered by the Joint List’s decision to not attend Shimon Peres’ funeral? What is the source of the endless bitterness and incitement on the Internet? How…
By
Samah Salaime
October 5, 2016
Why Israel’s Arab statesman boycotted Peres’ funeral
By refusing to attend the funeral, leader of the Joint List Odeh was protesting the myth of Shimon Peres, who enjoyed the global brand of peacemaker after Oslo, but walked away when things didn’t exactly work out. The death of a towering statesman is an occasion for an outpouring of oratory about his or her meaning in…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
October 1, 2016
The subtle nuances of Obama’s eulogy for Shimon Peres
With just a few months left in office, the U.S. president made sure to deliver a message to the Israeli people, and more pointed one to its leader. Nearly every aspect of Friday’s state funeral for Shimon Peres, who died this week at the age of 93, had a subtext, or could be seen as a metaphor.…
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Lisa Goldman
September 30, 2016
Abbas had to ask the Israeli army for permission to attend Peres’s funeral
While leaders around the world coordinated their visits with the Foreign Ministry, the Palestinian president was forced to ask permission from an occupying army. The irony. As a matter of diplomatic protocol, visits by heads of state are handled by the Foreign Ministry. The issue is so immutable that when the Israeli Foreign Ministry staff went on strike a…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 29, 2016
A Palestinian perspective on the legacy of Shimon Peres
The distrust with which Palestinians treat the Israeli peace camp frequently appears as something of a surprise, and even affront, to international observers. But the difference between Israeli left and right is all too frequently one of degree, rather than kind. By Nadia Naser-Najjab Even those with only a passing familiarity with Israel or the…
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September 28, 2016
The other, darker legacy of Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres, the last member of Israel’s founding generation, was feted internationally as a visionary man of peace. His legacy is in fact far more complex, and often nefarious The passing of Shimon Peres, at the venerable age of 93, precipitated an outpouring of elaborate obituaries and eulogies around the world, with news outlets noting…
By
Haggai Matar
September 28, 2016
Yitzhak Rabin never supported Palestinian statehood
For 20 years the Israeli Left has utilized selective memory to reinvent the late prime minister. In reality, Rabin only wanted to grant the Palestinians limited autonomy, a goal he achieved through the Oslo Accords. By Yakir Adelman Ahead of the 1992 elections in Israel there was a televised debate between Yitzhak Rabin and incumbent prime…
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October 27, 2015
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