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Opinion / Jews Welcome Evangelical Love, Money and Influence for Israel. But Call Our Christianity 'Poison'?
Source: Haaretz
Published 17.05.2020
It seems disingenuous that Jewish leaders now blast fervently pro-Israel evangelicals’ faith as toxic, ugly and destructive – just because we won’t, and can’t, stop preaching to Jews
Read MoreFor Palestinians, From Hebron to Nablus, Annexation Is Already Here. A Journey Through the West Bank
Source: Haaretz
Published 30.06.2020
With the world holding its breath to see what Netanyahu will do on annexation, Haaretz meets Palestinians across the West Bank to hear their divergent views on what the future holds. For many, one thing is certain: It doesn’t matter if you call it occupation or annexation, Palestinian Authority or Palestinian state
Read MoreNetanyahu's annexation plan is a sham. Apartheid has been decades in the making
Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-annexation-plan-masks-regime-ethnic-cleansing
Published 24 June 2020
Proposed annexation is a red herring, relieving liberal Zionists of responsibility for Israel's broader apartheid system and ongoing Palestinian suffering
Read MoreRecognizing the state of Palestine is the only appropriate response to Israeli annexation
Source: The Washington Post
Opinion by Ilan Goldenberg
Published July 2, 2020
Ilan Goldenberg is the director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; he served on the State Department negotiating team on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read MoreWhat Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan
Source: Brookings
Published June 29, 2020
Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank territories is now looming, a move that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has said would be a “most serious violation of international law.” In fact, President Trump’s so-called Israeli-Palestinian peace plan proposed such a move. The Trump administration plan also purports to offer a Palestinian “state,” but the proposed entity hardly bears resemblance to states as we have known them: Palestinians would rule over about 70% of the occupied territories, in fragmented sections connected through passages, with no control over security, borders, air, territorial waters, or alliances with states. After reviewing Trump’s offer, 50 former European leaders described it as akin to apartheid. Not surprisingly, the Palestinians quickly dismissed it. This then opened the way for Trump to possibly back Israel’s unilateral implementation of aspects of the plan, including annexation, that could take place as early as the beginning of July.
Read MoreGood news from Washington: AIPAC, Israel losing to progressive Democrats
Source: Middle East Monitor
By Ramzy BaroudPublished July 14, 2020
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While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace.Time’s Up Israel
Get your knee off Palestine’s neck!
Source: medium.com
https://medium.com/@sbahour/times-up-israel-d88b4dd575e9
By Sam Bahour
Published 14 July 2020
Read MoreIs Israel Uniquely Evil?
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/is-israel-uniquely-evil/
Irfan Chowdhury
The Palestine Chronicle
July 18, 2020
Read MoreAnnexation was always on Israel’s agenda
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/annexation-was-always-on-israels-agenda/
Rajko Kolundzic
The Electric Intifada
Published 17 July 2020
Read MoreLiberal Zionism begins to make the journey towards a one-state solution
Source: Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-peter-beinart-jewish-state-renounced-liberal-zionists
Publsihed 17 July 2020
Peter Beinart, a bellwether for American Jews, has provoked a storm by renouncing the two-state solution and urging equality for all
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