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Talk to Palestinians or pay price of ‘perpetual occupation’ – German FM to Israel
Source: RT
https://www.rt.com/news/417620-israel-prospect-occupation-palestine/
Published: 1 Feb, 2018
Israel could pay the price for “perpetual occupation and conflict” and face the prospect of being stuck in a “fully-fledged annexation” if it abandons reconciliation with the Palestinians, the German foreign minister has warned.
Read MoreBetween Poland's Holocaust revisionism and Israel's Nakba denial
Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/between-polands-holocaust-revisionism-and-israels-nakba-denial/132744/
By Haneen Zoabi
Published January 28, 2018Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948.
Read MorePLO to Demand UN Security Council Recognize Palestine Within 1967 Borders
Source: Haaretz
By Jack Khoury
Published Feb 04, 2018The Palestine Liberation Organization will also formulate a plan for disengaging from Israel in terms of security and economics
Read MoreARE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ANTI-PALESTINIAN?
Source: The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Are-Evangelical-Christians-anti-Palestinian-540601#/
By Joel C. Rosenberg
Published FEBRUARY 3, 2018To the contrary, Scripture teaches us to love both Arabs and Jews.
Read More‘Two-state’ solution only way to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict: UN
Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/06/551421/Palestine-Israel-UN-Antonio-Guterres
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has emphasized that the so-called two-state solution is the sole way out of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that the “negative trends” unfolding in the region could endanger the bid.
Read MoreUN Resolution 242’s True Significance vs. Popular Zionist Myth
Source: Foreign Policy Journal
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Published Jan 26, 2018
Contrary to the popular Zionist myth upon which the entire so-called "peace process" was premised, UN Security Council Resolution 242 requires Israel to fully and immediately withdraw its armed forces from occupied Palestine.
Read MoreA blessing or colossal curse? What it means to be an Israeli today
Source: Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/colossal-curse-god-1161324388
By Marcelo Svirsky
Published 22 January 2018We should not assume that everything the Israelis earn from their acts of colonisation of Palestinians is profit and privilege
Read MoreENCOUNTERING PEACE: SUCCESSFUL CONTACTS
Source: The Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Encountering-Peace-Successful-contacts-540994
BY GERSHON BASKIN
Published FEBRUARY 7, 2018
I remain convinced that Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible and that the compromises necessary to reach an agreement could be accepted by both sides – if we managed to change the climate.
Read MoreTo Achieve One State, Palestinians Must Also Work for Two
Source: Al-Shabaka
By Nadia Hijab
Published February 7, 2018
In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reinforced by Vice President Mike Pence’s promise to move the US embassy before the end of 2019, there has been a flurry of pieces heralding the imminent shift in a Palestinian strategy toward a one-state solution with equal rights. Both Palestinian negotiators closely involved in the moribund Oslo peace process and Palestinians who have long since despaired of Oslo declared that it is time to transform the struggle. Meanwhile, Israel continued to expand settlements, crack down on protests, and plan annexation of some or all of the West Bank.
Read MoreConfederation: The One Possible Israel-Palestine Solution
Source: The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books
By Bernard Avishai
Published February 2, 2018
“The two-state solution is over,” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters, responding to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “Now is the time to transform the struggle for one state with equal rights for everyone living in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.” As The New York Times subsequently reported, Erekat is hardly alone. The “over”-ness of “two states”—albeit with radical disagreements about the character of a hypothetical single state—has been claimed by ideological zealots, severe liberals, and exasperated peacemakers alike.
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