Last week at the UN, Israel lost America

By Larry Derfner
+972 Magazine
September 24 2011
Last week at the UN, Israel lost America

“Tafasta meruba, lo tafasta,” is a Hebrew saying that means, “If you get too greedy, you end up with nothing,” and it fits well to the arm-twisting job Israel just did on Obama at the UN.

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The General’s Son

Miko Peled is an Israeli peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny: that Israel andPalestine are one state. However, massive Israeli investment in infrastructure that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state. [...]

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Video: The Fight for Equality in Israel’s J14 Movement – Lia Tarachansky

By Lia Tarachansky of The RealNews Network. Aug. 11, 2011

Saturday saw the largest demonstration in Israel’s history in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other cities. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis poured onto the streets to demonstrate against the high housing prices and rising costs of commodities. Meanwhile Israel’s Palestinian citizens who make up 20% of [...]

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New law invokes censure from Israel’s friends

By LARRY HAIVEN

The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

When even mainstream North American Jewish organizations condemn Israeli policy, you know things are bad in that country.

Imagine that the U.S. had made it illegal in the 1960s for citizens to urge a boycott of California grapes, and that [...]

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IJV response to Kairos Palestine Document

A Moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering Introduction

Independent Jewish Voices-Canada (IJV) is a national organization of Jews committed to a resolution of the conflict in Israel/Palestine based on the application of international law and respect for the human rights of all people.

Independent Jewish [...]

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Sacred Mantras

Uri Avnery

zope.gush-shalom.org June 25, 2011

THE PALESTINIANS are planning something thoroughly obnoxious: they intend to apply to the UN for statehood.

Why obnoxious? Any Israeli spokesman (not to mention spokeswoman) will tell you readily: because it is a “unilateral” move. How dare they proclaim a state unilaterally? [...]

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25,000 People March in Tel Aviv in Support of Palestinian State Based on 1967 Borders

MRzine by the Communist Party of Israel

About 25,000 people took part in a march in central Tel Aviv on Saturday evening supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.

The march ended with a rally at the Tel Aviv Museum. MKs Dov Khenin (Hadash), Daniel Ben-Simon [...]

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Israel actions “surpass barbarism of apartheid South Africa,” group says after Na’eem Jeenah deportation

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 – 10:12

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign of South Africa (PSC) has confirmed that prominent scholar Na’eem Jeenah is expected back in Johannesburg Thursday morning after he was detained by Israeli authorities, interrogated and held incommunicado on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on 17 May, [...]

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Amira Hass: Israel turned the Nakba into a 63-year process

Israel crowns itself as the winner in the global competition of victimhood; yet it manufactures methods of oppression and dispossession.

By Amira Hass, Haaretz – 18 May 2011 www.haaretz.com

How natural it is for Israeli spokesmen to assert that the Nakba Day marches from Syria and Lebanon were the product of incitement [...]

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Israel and Palestine – Here comes your non-violent resistance

May 17th 2011, 2:09 by M.S.

The Economist

Photo credit- AFP

FOR many years now, we’ve heard American commentators bemoan the violence of the Palestinian national movement. If only Palestinians had learned the lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, we hear, they’d have had their state long ago. Surely no Israeli [...]

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