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Joseph Massad: The language of Zionism

by RAINman on 11. May, 2010 in Analysis

Al-Ahram Weekly – 7 May 2010
The reason for the ongoing “violence” in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad* provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology

“Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments [...]

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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

by RAINman on 23. Dec, 2009 in Analysis

Middle East Online – 22 December 2009
Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel to accommodate the Palestinians in a Middle East peace accord. The neocons appear to be especially eager to divert [...]

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Video: Israelis’ views on Obama and the peace process

by RAINman on 23. Sep, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!

Al Jazeera English      22 September 2009

Barack Obama, the US president, is getting ready to host Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a meeting he hopes might get peace talks started again. But Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has made his position clear, saying he will defend settlement expansion, which is the big sticking point. Al [...]

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Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy

by RAINman on 02. Jul, 2009 in Analysis

By Nicola Nasser*

In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before he would “promptly” engage in “unconditional” bilateral talks to meet an international consensus demanding the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. [...]

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Walking between the raindrops

by RAINman on 17. Jun, 2009 in Analysis

by Yossi Alpher

MEDIA MONITORS NETWORK
“At the end of the day, another right-wing leader, steeped in Revisionist ideology, had agreed to partition the land into two states. This cannot have been easy for Netanyahu. Yet his was not an unequivocal acceptance of the peace process with all it entails. Accordingly, his coalition will hold; Washington [...]

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