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Why I am not an Israeli peace activist

Genuine socialists fight against the Zionist project, writes Moshé Machover Weekly Worker 836 Thursday October 07 2010 As the desultory “peace process” meanders from pointless appointment to meaningless meeting between heads of the Israeli settler state and the authorityless Palestinian Authority, with the US playing the part of dishonest broker, there can no longer be [...]

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Senate Again Undermines Obama’s Middle-East Peace Efforts

by Stephen Zunes Stephen Zunes is a senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus and a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the Middle Eastern Studies program Published on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Foreign Policy in Focus Once again, as President Barack Obama began pressuring the right-wing Israeli [...]

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Video: The Settlement Freeze and the Peace Process Freeze

With Michele Dunne, Nadia Hijab and Daniel Levy. September 30, 2010 On or about Sept. 26 the Israeli government’s declared settlement moratorium came to an end. This has been identified as a major obstacle in the nascent peace talks. The moratorium has been incomplete and settlement construction has continued in many areas despite the so-called [...]

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Joseph Massad: The language of Zionism

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 [...]

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‘Neocon-ing’ Obama

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 [...]

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Video: Israelis’ views on Obama and the peace process

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. [...]

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Ethnic Cleansing as a State Policy

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 [...]

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Walking between the raindrops

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; [...]

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