Oslo, 20 Years Later By URI SAVIR Published: August 29, 2013 | New York Times TEL AVIV — In May 1993, I was the first Israeli to begin formal negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which resulted in the Oslo peace accords signed later in 1993 and Oslo II […]
As long as in the heart, within, A Jewish soul still yearns, And onward, towards the ends of the east, An eye still gazes toward Zion; Our hope is not yet lost, The hope of two thousand years, To be a free people in our land, The land of Zion […]
19th June 1967: Israel’s Peace Plan At the end of the Six Day War Israel controlled wide tracts of territory, and someone had to decide what to do with them. Israel’s Cabinet first discussed the question at length on June 18-19th, a week after the war. The minsters decided the […]
By Yaakov Lozowick I know, I know, I keep saying this blog is dormant, but apparently it isn’t fully dead. Anyone who deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict will probably have come across the nasty four-map series purporting to show how Israel is eliminating Palestine step by step. Recently some fellow in […]
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/when-politics-become-an-olympic-sport-1.453919 Palestinian officials are speaking the language of war at the same time that their security forces are acting strongly against anyone who might target Israelis. By Avi Issacharoff | Jul.27, 2012 | 1:21 AM Palestinian Olympics president Jibril Rajoub recently sent a letter to the International Olympics president Jacques […]
Further reading: Judeophobia Course by Dr. Gustavo Perednik The New Anti-Semitism Essays– Winter 2006 http://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-anti-semitism/ First religion, then race, then what? By Bernard Lewis There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of the […]
See also on MidEastWeb. org: MAPS: Projections of the Israeli offer at Camp David, the Israeli offer to Palestinians in December 2000, the Bridging Proposal of US President Clinton and the Israeli Offer of January 2001 Bill Clinton Reflects on 2000 Camp David Summit (2005) The following […]
(For background see also: The Palestine Nakba Controversy and The Palestinian Refugees) A softer touch on the Nakba A surprising new study shows that much of the Israeli mainstream rejects the Zionist narrative that there was no expulsion of Palestinians in 1948. By Akiva Eldar Published 04:46 24.01.12 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/a-softer-touch-on-the-nakba-1.408917 Security […]
The Scroll Benny Morris on Palestinan Peoplehood Israeli historian weighs in on Newt Gingrich’s ‘invented’ remark By Marc Tracy|December 14, 2011 10:00 AM http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/86078/benny-morris-weighs-in-on-palestinan-peoplehood/ I and everyone else have had the chance to opine on Newt Gingrich’s comment that the Palestinians are an “invented” people. Still, I felt […]