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Nobody - With The Possible Exception Of Hannah Arendt - Could Have Predicted
...that forcibly establishing a Jewish state in Palestine against the wishes of its pre-existing non-Jewish majority - a state which would be surrounded by 200 million Arabs and one billion Muslims who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the plight of the...
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France's Proposal For Early Recognition Of The Palestinian State (2)
(continued from yesterday) In a recent blog post, Alain Gresh of Le Monde surveyed recent French pronouncements on the establishment of a Palestinian state, and considered what they amount to. The first item he referenced was an interview that French...
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France's Proposal For Early Recognition Of The Palestinian State
In a recent blog post (Recognizing a Palestinian state, a "new" idea?), Le Monde's distinguished Middle East correspondent, Alain Gresh, surveyed recent French pronouncements on the establishment of a Palestinian state, and considered what they amount to. The first item...
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Quote of the Week: Nir Rosen
"To call oneself an Israeli Zionist is to engage in the dispossession of an entire people". -- The Logic Of Colonial Power by Nir Rosen; The Guardian, 29 Dec 2008. Cartoon: From The Melborne Age, 3 Mar 2010 (via Palestinian...
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If the U.S. Carried Out Ethnic Cleansing, Why Shouldn't Israel?
I'm always pleased to hear people argue that Americans shouldn't criticize Israel for being a nation created and maintained through ethnic cleansing, seeing as the United States was established through ethnic cleansing too. Not because I think it's a persuasive...
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Liberal Ha'aretz Strikes Again
Ha'aretz online has a Reuters photo running on its front page right now. (click to enlarge) Interesting change that Ha'aretz has made to the original accompanying caption. Here's the original: (click to enlarge) Very professional. Very liberal.
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No Such Thing As Liberal Zionism
Just look at these numbers. 1. This table [1] shows the population of Palestine when Zionists first arrived to pioneer their Jewish state. (click to enlarge) The year of the first Zionist immigration was 1299 (Muslim calendar), or 1881/2 of...
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Quote Of The Week: Dror Etkes
"Through the political debate taking place within Israel, we discover time and again that many Israelis refuse to reconcile themselves to a basic historical truth, which apparently threatens the sense of national justice many of them were raised and educated...
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"The Right Of Any Civilised Human Being"
We understand the right of return perfectly well when it suits us. Like, for example, when we're talking about refugees from the former Yugoslavia. 1. UNHCR effort in Balkans attracts strong criticism from Oxfam; The Irish Times (cached), 19 May...
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Why Would Anyone Think It's Apartheid?
1. "During his visit two weeks ago to Israel, former Italian prime minister Massimo D'Alema hosted a small group of Israelis - public figures and former diplomats - to a dinner at a Jerusalem hotel. The conversation quickly turned to...
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