Palestinians warn they will freeze US ties if PLO office closed
All hail the peacemakers 20
Why is Washington closing the PLO's office?
Relevance of Rape Culture
UDDENLY, A terrible thought struck me. What if Avi Gabbay really believes what he is saying?
Impossible. He cannot really believe all those things. No, no.
But if he does? Where does that leave us?
AVI GABBAY is the new leader of the Israeli Labor Party. Until recently, he was a founding member of a moderate right-wing party, Kulanu ("We all"). Without ever being elected to the Knesset, he served as a junior minister. He resigned when Avigdor Lieberman, considered by many as a semi-fascist (and the “semi” is far from certain), was allowed to join the government as Minister of Defense, the second most important post.
In a bold move, Gabbay left Kulanu and joined the Labor Party (also known as "the Zionist Camp") and was soon elected its chairman. However, he did not become the official "Leader of the Opposition", because he was not a member of the Knesset. (The formal title remained with his predecessor, the very nice but rather insignificant Yitzhak Herzog.)
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Palestinian Solidarity Day: 70 years since partition
ZIONISM IS an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning.
Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the Diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
Herzl traveled to Russia in order to win the support of their anti-Semitic, pogrom-inciting leaders for his project, promising to take the Jews off their hands.
Indeed, it was always a main plank of Zionist propaganda that only in the future Jewish state will Jews be able to live a normal life. The slogan was to "overturn the social pyramid" - putting it on a sound basis of workers and farmers, instead of speculators and bankers.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1512137281/
Palestinian Chief: US 'playing with fire'
Trump Plans to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem
Palestine's Idhna struggles with e-waste
https://youtu.be/rkF-MiRTkeA[/quote]Trump Plans to Move US Embassy to JerusalemJoe Clark promised to do this in 1979, but then backed off when Jimmy Carter told him it was a really bad move. I'm watching to see which U.S. and especially Canadian politicians condemn this dastardly plan of Trump's. Sadly there is no one of Jimmy Carter's calibre available in the U.S., nor in Canada.
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One of the things I know about Donald Trump is he could care less where the capital of Israel is. What he does care about is being the centre of attention, and diverting attention away from other things.
To him, the recognition of Jersalem as capital of Israel is nothing more than 'look at me, everybody! Look, look here I am!!'
The consequences of stupidity mean nothing to him.
I think Trump is also thinking about all those Christian Evangelist voters who love him and who are even more Zionist than most Israelis.
Trump also has a cohort of neo-Nazi anti-semitic voters. I wonder how they will react...
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Palestinian refugees angry at Trump's Jerusalem stance
UpFront - Is the two-state solution dead?
EHUD BARAK has "broken the silence". He has published an article in The New York Times attacking our prime minister in the most abrasive terms. In other words, he has done exactly the same as the group of ex-soldiers who call themselves "Breaking the Silence", who are accused of washing our dirty linen abroad. They expose war crimes to which they have been witnesses, or even participants.
But apart from the attack on Binyamin Netanyahu, Barak has used the article to publish his Peace Plan. A former chief-of-staff of the Israeli army and a former prime minister, Barak is obviously planning a comeback, and his peace plan is part of the effort. There seems to be, anyhow, open season for Peace Plans in our region.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1512738998/
Trump's Jerusalem move roundly condemned at UN
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Palestine's Intifada marks 30th anniversary
Interviewed by Radio Free Georgia
Netanyahu urges Europe to recognise Jerusalem as Israel capital
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Inside Story - Does the EU have a role in the Middle East?
Get ready for ‘de-Arabization of Jerusalem' ‒ fmr IDF soldier
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Protesters call for Netanyahu to resign amid corruption allegations
FOR GOD'S SAKE, are they crazy?
They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them at our soldiers, who are armed to the teeth. The soldiers shoot, sometimes over their heads, sometimes straight at them. Every day there are wounded, every few days there are dead.
What for? They do not have the slightest chance of changing the policy of the Israeli occupation. Only very rarely do the boys hit a soldier and cause him a slight injury.
Yet they go on. Why?
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1513341285/
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Israeli soldiers beat Palestinian, 8 Dec. 2017, Hebron
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