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Community Northern Ireland Is A Perfect Model For Improving Jewish-Arab Relations In Israel
The field of creating a shared society in Israel, of equalizing and encouraging Jewish-Arab citizen relations, is much in debt to models and concepts developed in Northern Ireland. For the last 20 years, following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland has been a testing ground for projects of reconciliation and models of…
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News Trump And Netanyahu Strain To Avoid Even Mentioning ‘Two-State Solution’
The two-state solution, once a cornerstone of American and Israeli policy and official communications, is now so explosive that it cannot be uttered even when the president of the United States and the prime minister of Israel meet to discuss the future of the Middle East. “I really believe peace between the Palestinians and Israel…
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Fast Forward Left-Wing Groups Slam Trump For Refusing To Promote Two-State Solution
A brief hopeful moment in which President Trump was seen as the Middle East’s unlikely peace broker has ended for dovish Israel-focused organizations now that the administration has made clear it does not intend to embrace the two-state solution. In advance of American negotiators arriving in the region, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert refused to…
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Fast Forward Slim Majority Of Israelis and Palestinians Still Support Two-State Solution
Small majorities of Israelis and Palestinians still support a two-state solution, a poll conducted jointly by Tel Aviv University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found. According to the poll, 53% of Israelis and 52% of Palestinians expressed support for a two-state solution, where Israelis and Palestinians would have separate countries in…
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Opinion Fault Lines Episode 12: Alternatives To The Two-State Solution
What if the Two-State Solution is dead? In the most recent episode, Peter Beinart and Daniel Gordis grappled with the American Jewish millennials who have started to lose faith in the Two-State Solution. The Two-State Solution has long been considered the only legitimate end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but new times are prompting the question:…
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News How Trump’s Mideast Peace Overture Puts J Street Liberals In A Bind
It’s a dilemma many left-wing Jewish activists are facing these days: How should doves deal with President Donald Trump’s pivot to Middle East peacemaking? Can the same activists who fought fiercely against Trump’s election and who oppose almost everything he stands for embrace the president’s effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? “The overwhelming, if not…
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Opinion Alternative Solutions To Israel-Palestinian Quagmire
Conventional wisdom suggests that we all know the essentials of what a final deal between Israelis and Palestinians will look like: two states, some land swaps, and a sensible compromise regarding Jerusalem, refugees, resources and security issues. But as the Israeli government presses on in its settlement-building ventures, and President Trump casually states his indifference…
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Books Is There Still A Chance For Peace In The Middle East?
Not long ago, I strolled along the spotless streets of Rawabi, a new Palestinian city being built near Ramallah, with Jack Nassar, the project’s development manager. He is an educated young man, smartly dressed and well compensated. We walked past the impressive amphitheater, strolled through expansive parks, saw the church and the mosque, and viewed…
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