Israeli Settlements

The Moral Excellence Of The State Of Israel

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Iran, Israel, Morality, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Tikkun Olam, Judaism, Religion News

We have many flaws as well, but the modern state of Israel should hold its head high. Despite its craven detractors, it remains on mission as "a light unto the nations."

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One Word, Many Meanings: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Hagit Ofran | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Israel, Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Judaism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Zionism, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Religion News

Zionism is not an inert concept but a continuing dynamic challenge, in both definition and implementation. The connotation of the word Zionist is changing all the time.

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A Jewish Athens, Not Sparta: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Stuart Schoffman | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Israel, Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Judaism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Zionism, Israel-Palestine, Liberal Zionism, Religion News

For the Love of Zion, call me whatever you will, it won't change what I am. Liberals like me, walking and talking like Zionists, are Zionists. That's a truth the "authorities" cannot duck.

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Why Progressive Nationalism Is Still So Relevant: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Kenneth Bob | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Liberal Zionists Speak Out, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Kibbutz, Zionism, Judaism, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News

Israel's founders understood that Israel cannot treat its minorities the way that Jews were treated throughout history. A world view of how the Jews can realize their national aspirations in a socially just manner is as relevant today as it was then.

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A South Florida Jew's Tax-Day Message -- It's Time for Justice in Palestine

Matthew Schneider | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Israel Evictions, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, Palestine Evictions, Israel, Florida Atlantic University, Miami News

When I set out with my fellow SJP members to place fake eviction notices on dorm rooms, I felt a sense of duty and accomplishment: an injustice is taking place and we were allowed to spread awareness directly to the FAU community.

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Israeli Settlement Backer Donates $1 Million To Defeat Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Birthers, Israeli Settlements, Karl Rove, Obama Birthers, West Bank, Super PACs, Elections 2012, Irving Moskowitz, Israel Settlements, Barack Obama, Video, 2012 Election, West Bank Settlements, Barack Obama 2012, Israel, American Crossroads, Obama Israel, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Even in the era of unbridled campaign contributions, Irving Moskowitz's $1 million donation in February to American Crossroads, the Karl...

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A One-State Solution for Israel and Palestine

George Bisharat | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Israel, West Bank Settlements, One-State Solution, Palestinian Statehood, Two-State Solution, World News

Would not a truly democratic state joining Jews and Palestinians become the "light unto nations" that Israel was always meant to be?

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Settlement Boycott Will Not Save Two State Solution

Carlo Strenger | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Peter Beinart, Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, Israel, The Crisis of Zionism, Obama Israel, Barack Obama, Zionism, Religion News

I have argued against the one state solution time and again; both in the version of the greater Land of Israel propagated by Israel's right, and in the version advocated by many Palestinian intellectuals and activists and some Jewish intellectuals on the far left.

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Peter Beinart's Offense Against Liberalism

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Israel, Peter Beinart, Bds Movement, Israel Boycott, World News

The call to boycott Israel -- even the lame effort to distinguish between boycotting Israel within the Green Line and boycotting Israel beyond the Green Line -- is troubling, in and of itself.

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Israeli Settlements in Vise Between Court and Council

Jeffrey Laurenti | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Palestine, Israel, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, World News

The Israeli supreme court's brusque dismissal of Benjamin Netanyahu's "compromise" to avoid demolishing a West Bank settler outpost that even Israelis acknowledge is illegal spotlights the deep divisions within Israel about the ongoing settlement enterprise.

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Israel Bars U.N. Team From Investigating Settlements

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Video, Israeli Settlements, Israel Bans UN, Un Israel, Jewish Settlements, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, Israel, UN Israel Settlements, World News

JERUSALEM — Israel cut working relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday and will bar a U.N. team from entering Israel or...

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Settlement Boycott Call Likely To Fall Flat

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Peter Beinart, Video, Israeli Settlements, Israel-Palestine, Religion News

By Nathan Guttman The Forward Trouble With Beinart's Plan: There's Not Much to Boycott WASHINGTON — By most standards, SodaStream is a great ...

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Decisions in the Interregnum in Palestine and Israel

Ziad J. Asali, M.D. | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Israeli Settlements, Palestinian Statehood, Palestinian State, Two-State Solution, World News

While the two-state solution will not be realized immediately, there are many steps that can and should be taken to create the right underpinnings and environment for a successful peace deal once the politics is right. What is to be done during this interregnum?

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Ahistorical Partisanship

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Israeli Settlements, Israel, Iranian Nuclear Program, Obama Administration, Aipac, US-Israel-Relationship, Jewish Voters, Politics News

The historical record demonstrates that U.S.-Israel disagreements, including public ones, aren't a Democrat thing. They are cyclical, and dependent on context and particular conditions at the time.

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The Two-State-Solution is Dead, One-State is the Answer

Nehad Ismail | Posted 04.24.2012

Former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg endorsed the one-state solution in an article in Haaretz in December 2011, and called the entire left to do the same. Burg has flirted with the idea in the past, but he was never so explicitly.

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An Opportunity for the Israeli Opposition

Guy Ziv | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Israeli Opposition, U.S.-Israel Relations, Tzipi Livni, Shelly Yachimovich, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Labor Party, Zehava Gal-On, Meretz, Israel, Israel Iran, Israeli Elections, Kadima, Israel Election, World News

Although Israelis are not scheduled to go to the polls until fall of 2013, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is widely expected to call for early elections. Yet, Netanyahu may be more vulnerable than anticipated.

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Time for Israel to Embrace the Arab Spring

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, Ahmedinejad, Obama Administration, Iran, Diplomacy, Internationals Security, Israel, Netanyahu; Israeli Governement, Peace, Middle East Peace, Obama Israel, Gaza, West Bank, West Bank Settlements, World News

As the Arab Spring continues, Western influence wanes. In tandem, Israel is becoming more isolated.

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As the Illegal Outpost of Migron Goes, So Goes All of Israel

Lara Friedman | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Illegal Outposts, Israel-Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, Migron, Israel, World News

The fate of Migron, an illegal outpost in the heart of the West Bank, is about to be decided. The implications of this decision are about far more than the future of a handful of settlers in a single outpost.

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The Psychological Dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Hamas, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, World News

Sixty-four years into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and following half a dozen wars and hundreds of terrorist attacks and Israeli retaliations, very little has changed psychologically.

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Preventing 'Politicide' in the Middle East

Henry Siegman | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Oslo Accords, Israeli Settlements, Mideast Peace Process, West Bank, Palestinian State, Israel, Palestine, Brics, Benjamin Netanyahu, UN Resolution 242, World News

The bilateral peace process that the U.S. has doggedly sought to insulate from outside "interference" is not only an empty exercise but has served to provide Israel with cover for its settlement project.

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GOP Foreign Policy -- When the Earth Was Flat

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Rick-Santorum-2012, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Republican Party, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

The GOP appear to be rushing headlong into the 1950s with a Cold War foreign policy and a notion of science that embraces any fossil fuel on the horizon.

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Six Questions for Dr. Hanan Ashrawi

Jonathan Guyer | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Quartet, Israel-Palestine, Palestinian, Fatah, Plo, Palestine, Hamas, Bds, Jerusalem, Hanan Ashrawi, Gaza, Palestinian Unity, Cairo, Ramallah, Israel, One-State, Reconciliation, World News

I sat down with Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, member of the The Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee and discussed the PLO's strategies for 2012.

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Report: Israel Breaks All Settlement Records

Reuters | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Peace Now, West Bank, Reuters, Settlements, Israel Settlement Record, Israel, Israel Settlements, Video, World News

* Peace Now: Chances for two-state solution diminishing * Settlements issue key to restarting frozen peace talks By Ori ...

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UN Special Rapporteur, Richard Falk, Talks About Palestine's Bid for Statehood (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 03.10.2012

If I remember correctly, didn't President Bush, the father, at one point make an appeal to the American people on television?

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UN Special Rapporteur, Richard Falk Talks About Palestine's Bid for Statehood (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Unesco, Richard Falk, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Israeli Settlements, United Nations, Politics News

Today my guest is UN Rapporteur, Richard Falk, and we are going to discuss Palestine's bid for statehood, what this means -- the consequences, the ramifications.

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