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No, Catalonia isn't Palestine
October 04, 2017 14:02Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/no-catalonia-isnt-palestine/129989/
By Noam Sheizaf
October 1, 2017Some in Israel are drawing parallels between the Catalonian demand for national self-determination and Palestinian independence. The two situations are nothing alike.
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How Kurdish independence is central to Israel's plans to reshape the region
October 04, 2017 13:47Source: 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
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An Atheist in the Yeshiva: The education of Yossi Zvi Gurvitz
October 06, 2017 14:02Source: 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.
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Good Arab, bad Arab, holy martyr
October 06, 2017 14:14Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom
September 29, 2017A tale of two stories
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From denial to recognition: There is no 'humane' occupation
October 09, 2017 11:57Source: +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.
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Why a leading Palestinian activist isn’t fixated on a Palestinian state
October 10, 2017 14:19Source: 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.
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Will Hamas-Fatah reconciliation deal succeed?
October 13, 2017 13:27Source: 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.
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The 13 questions on life in Palestine that non-Palestinians always ask me
October 16, 2017 13:59Source: 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.
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WATCH // Week-long Cultural Festival Aims to Revive Palestinian Traditions, Life in Jerusalem
October 17, 2017 13:43Source: 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
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The slow death of Israeli citizenship
October 17, 2017 13:54Source: +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.
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