Common Grounds
How Kurdish independence is central to Israel's plans to reshape the region
Source: The National
October 2, 2017
The unravelling of the map of the region would likely lead to chaos of the kind that a strong, nuclear-armed Israel could richly exploit, writes Jonathan Cook
Read MoreAn Atheist in the Yeshiva: The education of Yossi Zvi Gurvitz
Source: Mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/09/atheist-yeshiva-education/
By Yossi Gurvitz
Published September 29, 2017
It’s Yom Kippur, and I guess I have to explain why a former yeshiva boy will soon prepare his usual Friday dinner and may, if laziness permits, take out his camera into the streets and attempt to capture the ferocious burst of freedom which can be experienced only in Israel on this day: the roads all devoid of cars and given, for one day, to bicycles and hikers.
Read MoreGood Arab, bad Arab, holy martyr
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom
September 29, 2017A tale of two stories
Read MoreFrom denial to recognition: There is no 'humane' occupation
Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/israeli-civilians-bear-responsibility-for-the-occupation-too/130077/
By Frima (Merphie) Bubis
As Israelis, as Jews, as human beings, we must confront the daily reality that takes place throughout the occupied territories. And in doing so, we must face ourselves.
Read MoreWhy a leading Palestinian activist isn’t fixated on a Palestinian state
Source: The Washington Post
By Ishaan Tharoor
Published October 6
In Washington, a generation of diplomats, politicos and wonks see the prospect of peace between Israelis and Palestinians entirely in the context of the "two-state solution," a scenario in which an independent Palestinian state emerges alongside Israel. It has been an article of faith for successive American administrations, even the current one. But on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territories, the two-state solution is a mirage.
Read MoreWill Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal succeed?
Source: Al Jazeera
By Jonathan Cook
Nazareth - The announcement of an Egypt-brokered reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas on Thursday raised hopes that a decade of bitter feuding between the rival Palestinian factions may finally come to an end.
Read MoreThe 13 questions on life in Palestine that non-Palestinians always ask me
Source: MONDOWEISS
http://mondoweiss.net/2017/10/questions-palestine-palestinians/October 11, 2017
I am a Palestinian from my father’s side of the family and this month, I moved to Palestine. I was educated in France, worked in international organizations in a European and then an East African country, and also have lived in South America. Many of my colleagues, friends and acquaintances have no ties to the Holy Land. But they care and fantasize about it too. Therefore, during the many friendly discussions with people around me about why I was moving there, what it meant, how it would be, I found myself answering the same questions over and over again prompted by candid and genuine curiosity.
Read MoreWATCH // Week-long Cultural Festival Aims to Revive Palestinian Traditions, Life in Jerusalem
Source: Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.817713
Reuters, Oct 17, 2017
'Layali al-Quds' is the first cultural festival in Jerusalem launched by 'Shafaq', also known as the Jerusalem Arts Network
Read MoreThe slow death of Israeli citizenship
Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/the-slow-death-of-israeli-citizenship/130212/
By Marzuq Al-Halabi
Published October 15, 2017
As the Right consolidates its power over nearly every sphere of Israeli politics, it is slowly turning citizenship into a matter of ideology. Non-Jewish citizens aren’t the only ones who will suffer.
Read MoreForcing Jews into a nation
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
ByYoav Litvin, Mondoweiss
September 29, 2017A Jewish atonement for Zionism
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