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'Jerusalem Must Be Divided'

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.21.2012

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JERUSALEM — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want p...

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Joint Statement Shows Israel, Palestinians Committed To Peace

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 05.13.2012

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JERUSALEM — An Israeli envoy met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday and delivered a letter from Prime Minister Benjamin Netana...

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Why I Am Not A Liberal Zionist

Anat Biletzki | Posted 05.07.2012

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If Zionism has been based on a set of values -- any values -- that "override whatever injustices statehood has brought," then it has taken us as far as one can get from the set of values that undergird liberal democracy.

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Palestinian Christians Against The Occupation

Philip Farah | Posted 05.01.2012

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The majority of Palestinian Muslims and Christians have chosen peaceful resistance. To say that Hamas is the cause of the declining Christian population in the occupied Palestinian territories is standing the truth on its head.

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What Gives Me HOPE?

Gregory Rockson | Posted 04.26.2012

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For one night, we will not talk about politics but rather use the power of music to embrace our diversity. We will do something politicians have failed to do and that is bring people together.

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Will You Still Love Me When I’m 64?

Rabbi Yael Ridberg | Posted 04.26.2012

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On Israel's 64th birthday, I've been thinking about how to share that love of Israel with my daughters, even while I know the Israel they will come to know may seem different than when I first went 40 years ago.

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The Flowering Of Creativity: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Ariel Beery | Posted 04.26.2012

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Here is the Zionist movement's next goal: to take the lead in informing our People's self-expression in art and politics and business alike, so as to pioneer a path toward a more fulfilling collective life.

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A Jewish Athens, Not Sparta: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Stuart Schoffman | Posted 04.26.2012

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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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Estranged But Committed: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Yuli Tamir | Posted 04.25.2012

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I am a sad nationalist who knows that fewer and fewer fellow nationals share her dream of peace, equality and justice, and therefore feels estranged in her home-land, estranged but nonetheless committed. I am, as I wrote at the outset, irrevocably a Zionist.

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For Our Creative Survival: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 04.25.2012

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Can the Jewish people survive without a Jewish and democratic state in the Land of Israel? For a while, perhaps. But creative Jewish survival needs a state to strengthen Jewish identity, foster Jewish unity and offer a meaningful Jewish response to the emptiness of modern life.

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

Kenneth Bob | Posted 04.25.2012

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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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Let's Have An Honest Debate: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Mitchell Cohen | Posted 04.25.2012

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Hard though it may be, I think it is better to struggle constantly between particularism and universalism -- to struggle between the demands of actual, complex situations and circumstances and the horizons or principles that let us project better ones.

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Distorting The Word 'Zionism': Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Steven J. Zipperstein | Posted 04.25.2012

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Zionism's plummet as a compelling idea -- beyond, that is, the political or religious right -- isn't merely the byproduct of insidious propaganda or of the bullying of leftwing academics. The term has stumbled into something worse than obsolescence.

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How I Became A 'Post-Zionist': Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen | Posted 04.24.2012

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The Zionist movement succeeded in creating a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel more than 60 years ago. Its current challenge is to become a truly liberal democratic country of all its citizens and work toward peace with a homeland for the Palestinian people in Palestine.

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A Homeland For Justice: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Kathleen Peratis | Posted 04.24.2012

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I am perfectly aware that my criticism of Israel makes some Jews uncomfortable and, for some, disqualifies me for the Zionist label, which is a pity. The Jewish future needs all of us.

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Our Responsibility To Promote Justice: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Muki Tsur | Posted 04.24.2012

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Zionism obliges me to forgo the personal and public privilege of total apology or the luxury of self-hatred. It obliges me to free myself from a sense of approaching apocalypse as well as of the inevitability of utopia.

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When The Movement Becomes Part Of The Problem: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

David Biale | Posted 04.24.2012

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Without the democratic, pluralistic model to which most Western Jews subscribe, Zionism is in danger of devolving into ethno-nationalism: the domination of one group by another.

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The State of Righteousness: Liberal Zionists Speak Out

Michael Walzer | Posted 04.24.2012

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This is a test that we shouldn't want to avoid: can this people, our people, stateless for almost 2,000 years, create a state that men and women around the world will look at and say, "And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous"?

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Welcome to Palestine: "Even Prisoners Are Allowed Visits"

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.13.2012

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What difference will it make to the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank when the world meets their demands for freedom and self-determination?

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Tom Friedman's Skewed Vision of Non-Violence

Ed Koch | Posted 04.10.2012

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The Politics of Palestine

James Zogby | Posted 04.07.2012

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It may still be possible to imagine a just political resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But, in the real world, politics is not the work of our imagination.

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Freedom of Speech Except When It Comes to Israel

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 04.03.2012

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Beinart is not arguing that the Palestinians are always right. Instead, he proves that Israel isn't either -- and that almost all the information put out by the lobby and the Israeli government is propaganda.

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Transcending False Perceptions

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 04.03.2012

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To disabuse both the Jewish and Arab/Muslim publics of their false perceptions about each other, their religious scholars should engage in open dialogue. The two sides must reconcile their differences, including the future of Jerusalem, while using religious teachings.

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A Dangerous Proposal

Einat Wilf | Posted 04.02.2012

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To be a member of the Israeli left who believes that all Jews should have a voice in shaping Israel's future is to repeatedly witness good intentions ...

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Why Peter Beinart's Book Is Driving the "Pro-Israel" Establishment Crazy

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 03.29.2012

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The difference between Netanyahu and most Israelis, I believe, is that for them the situation today is nothing like the situation in the 1940s. Israel is not the Warsaw Ghetto, a comparison that insults both the memory of the Holocaust and Israel itself.

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