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The transformative legacy of Mr. Status Quo
Benjamin Netanyahu made everybody believe there could never be an alternative to the so-called 'status quo.' His departure should serve as a reminder that one always exists.
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Noam Sheizaf
June 13, 2021
We are all one staters now
The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.
By
Noam Sheizaf
December 27, 2019
The right’s plan to get rid of Israel’s High Court
The far right wants to defang Israel’s highest court to fulfill its annexationist dreams. Netanyahu wants to overpower it to ensure he remains on the throne. For Palestinians, annexation has long been a fact on the ground. By Meron Rapoport The attacks on Israel’s High Court by the right would not have gained traction without Prime Minister Netanyahu’s personal support. These…
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+972 Magazine
May 24, 2019
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PODCAST: Voting to maintain the occupation is a rational choice for Israelis
The choice Israelis face isn’t just one or two states. There’s a third option, the one they keep choosing: the status quo. And how do Palestinians, who live under Israeli rule but can’t vote, look at Israeli elections? Listen to the latest episode of The +972 Podcast. Subscribe here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify Israeli elections are right…
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+972 Magazine
April 4, 2019
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…
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Haggai Matar
January 29, 2018
There is no status quo, only Greater Israel
Netanyahu’s party and government are finally making explicit what has long been implied: rejecting the premise that the Palestinians will ever have a state of their own. Over the past few years, analysts have been using the term “creeping annexation” to describe Israel’s land grabbing, segregationist policies in the West Bank. But over the past…
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Edo Konrad
January 3, 2018
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
Netanyahu vows to occupy the West Bank forever
If Israel is not willing to relinquish military control over the West Bank, then it is saying that there can be no two-state solution. Benjamin Netanyahu last week promised that Israel will never relinquish security control over the West Bank, even as part of a two-state peace deal, which is to say that the Israeli…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
June 13, 2017
‘Centrist’ politician’s plan for total separation from Palestinians
Yair Lapid isn’t sure which Palestinians he wants to separate from or even how many of them there are, but he knows he needs a bigger wall to do it. Now is the time to get the Palestinians completely out of the lives of Israelis, according to Yair Lapid, head of the Yesh Atid (“There…
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Lisa Goldman
November 5, 2015
Why does Netanyahu think he can stop rock throwing?
If live ammunition hasn’t stopped stone throwing in the West Bank, what makes the prime minister think it will work in Jerusalem? The one thing we can be sure the change in policy will do is kill more Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants security forces to start shooting Palestinian stone throwers. During the…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
September 20, 2015
A Palestinian state is in Israel’s best interest
Forget the Right’s fear-mongering: by disarming Hamas and establishing a joint force in the Jordan Valley, a Palestinian state will only serve as a security asset to Israel. By Ilan Baruch When it comes to its enemies, Israel has always had a tendency to define threats against its security according to military and terrorist capabilities.…
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April 9, 2015
Beyond Gaza: Runners-up for 2014’s ‘Story of the Year’
The Gaza war was a clear choice for +972’s selection as story of the year (read it here). But the other nominated stories need to be told, too. +972 bloggers explain why they made their nominations. From the kidnappings to a new paradigm for Jewish-Arab relations to a growing opposition among U.S. Jews. The kidnap-murder…
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December 31, 2014
Israelis know status quo is untenable, but there’s no alternative vision
With three-quarters of Israelis saying they worry about international isolation and only 10 percent supporting the status quo, logic would hold that they might seek change. But don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. The success of the Zionist project — from the pre-state era to Startup Nation — is often attributed to some combination…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
December 24, 2014
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