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Opinion // To the Settler Chief Who Insists Jews Must Rule Israel Even if Arabs Become the Majority
March 28, 2018 14:46Source: Haaretz
Bradley Burston
Mar 27, 2018If nothing else, the right has persuaded me of this: We need to offer every West Bank Palestinian the option of voting in Israeli elections. If you refuse to allow them a country, for God's sake, allow them the vote
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Older Jews are officially terrified of young Jews’ views of Israel
March 29, 2018 13:42Source: Mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/officially-terrified-israel/
By Philip Weiss
Published March 27, 2018
“Big stories don’t break, they ooze,” the legendary editor Gene Roberts used to say, and a story has oozed in the last month or so that has not gotten much attention. Older Jews are now officially terrified of young Jews. Why? Because those young Jews are not persuaded of the value of the great Jewish project of the last century, Israel.
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Palestinians are the majority. Is it apartheid yet?
March 29, 2018 13:58Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/palestinians-are-the-majority-is-it-apartheid-yet/134125/
By Amjad Iraqi
Published March 28, 2018Israel has always valued Jewish supremacy over democracy. But new demographics could bolster the Palestinians’ efforts to challenge this system.
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Palestine Land Day: A day to resist and remember
March 30, 2018 12:57Source: Al Jazeera
By Yara Hawari
On Land Day, Palestinians demand once and for all that the international community pick the right side of history.
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Where is Palestine's Gandhi? Marching in Gaza
April 02, 2018 15:16Source: +972 Magaziine
https://972mag.com/where-is-palestines-gandhi-marching-in-gaza/134274/
By Neve Gordon
Published April 1, 2018
Rather than ask when the Palestinians will produce a Gandhi, we must ask when Israel will produce a leader that does not subjugate an occupied population through lethal violence.
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Geraldo Rivera regrets not backing Palestinians in Second Intifada
April 04, 2018 13:21Source: Mondoweiss
http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/geraldo-palestinians-intifada/
By Philip Weiss
Published April 3, 2018
Another datapoint in the discourse’s march to the left. On Fox News, Geraldo Rivera says that the Israel Palestine conflict is the “original sin” of the United States, from which “a lot of our problems stem”. And his big regret is that he did not back the oppressed Palestinians during the Second Intifada.
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Israel faces historic decision as new population figures emerge
April 04, 2018 13:34Source: Al-Monitor
By Yossi Beilin
Published April 3, 2018
The Israeli political right was caught off guard by the surprising official figures presented on March 26 at the Knesset by a representative of the Civil Administration, the army unit coordinating the Israeli government’s activities in the occupied territories. The representative indicated that the number of Jews and Arabs living under Israeli control in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean had reached parity at 6.5 million for each side.
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If our Jersey sisterhood of Jews, Muslims can bond, so can the world | Opinion
April 04, 2018 13:52Source: NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/03/if_our_sisterhood_of_jewish_muslim_women_can_bond.html
By Heba Macksoud
Published March 8 2018
When I first heard about the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, it sounded strange to me: A few older Jewish women wanted to get together with a bunch of Muslim women in New Jersey to "get to know them."
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A week of unbearable heartbreak in Israel-Palestine
April 04, 2018 14:06Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/a-week-of-unbearable-heartbreak-in-israel-palestine/134338/
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
Published April 3, 2018From unarmed protesters gunned down in Gaza to hope snatched away from refugees, the human suffering this past week has been overwhelming.
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Christian evangelicals from the US flock to Holy Land in Israeli tourism boom
April 11, 2018 12:59Source: Independent
By Staff Reporter
Published 6 April 2018
Record-breaking numbers of tourists paid visits to Israel in 2017, and a growing proportion come from Donald Trump’s evangelical voter base
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