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Opinion ‘From The River To The Sea’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
A 2018 piece on what the phrase means to Palestinian activists who use it
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Opinion How George H.W. Bush Pushed Israel Toward Peace – With Tough Love
He was accused by the opposing party’s presidential nominee of demanding “unilateral concessions” from Israel and being soft on the Palestinians. His Secretary of State was denounced by some pro-Israel figures as an obsessive hater of the Jewish state who wouldn’t leave it alone. They led an administration that did not tolerate West Bank settlement…
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Opinion By Besieging The Palestinians, Israel Has Besieged Itself
Another round of violence has engulfed Gaza. After a botched intelligence operation in which one Israeli officer was killed as well as seven Palestinian members of Hamas, Hamas responded to Israel’s incursion by firing rockets into Israel. Israel immediately instrumentalized a story of defense. The Israeli army reported that the operation which sparked this round…
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Opinion Israel Has Chosen Settlements Over Security
Since its 2005 disengagement of forces from the Gaza Strip, Israel has been engaged in recurring hostilities and five medium-to-large scale military operations against the Hamas regime and other militant groups in Gaza. This year has seen a new form of warfare from Gaza: incendiary kites and balloons have caused thousands of fires, which burned…
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Opinion For Students Like Me, Anti-BDS But Critical Of Israel, There’s No Place On Campus
All eyes have been on University of Michigan, my university, these past few weeks, thanks to some controversial incidents: two professors refusing to write recommendations for students seeking to study in Israel and a required seminar class comparing Israel’s Prime Minister to Hitler. Even though I was warned, before I started at Michigan, about the…
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Opinion Israel Has Detained An American Student For A Week. But No One Cares, Because She’s Not Jewish.
When I was detained at Ben Gurion airport in August, Benjamin Netanyahu apologized. So why isn’t he apologizing to Lara Alqasem? After all, I was only detained for an hour; she’s been detained for a week. I was allowed into the country; she’s facing deportation. One answer is that while at the University of Florida,…
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Opinion The UN General Assembly Was A Disaster For Palestinians
Three days ago, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres opened his UN General Assembly remarks by noting that “Palestinians and Israelis are still locked in endless conflict, with the two-state solution more and more distant.” As if to affirm this statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benajamin Netanyahu’s 40-minute speech on Thursday made no single mention…
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Jewishness Won’t Doom His Peace Plan. This Will.
In the fall of 1996, while in Israel as part of a small US team trying to negotiate an end to a particularly serious and violent crisis between Israelis and Palestinians, I learned that my mother’s cancer had progressed, and I returned home to be with her for those last precious days. Although neither religious…
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