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Violence Without Context – a War Update

– by Yahav Zohar – May 2021 Israel-Palestine is in the news again, there are bombs and rockets lighting up the sky, turning homes to rubble and dramatically toppling towers. Heads turn in our direction and people want to know what’s going on. “Israel is bombing us” say Gazans. “Hamas shot rockets first” say Israelis. […]

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Palestinians have every right to reject another Oslo

With the Bahrain workshop, the Trump administration is relying on the same old Oslo model of economy before politics. What needs to be done is to hold Israel accountable. – by Sam Bahour – American President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and advisor Jared Kushner at the White House, May 22, […]

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Land Day Matters – of Mourning and Commemoration

– By Sam Bahour and Fida Jiryis –First published in +972 – March 30, 1976 has been commemorated for over forty years as ‘Land Day’ by Palestinians around the world. while the day’s title may evoke images of environmental action or eco-friendly activities, it is a day of mourning and remembrance. On that bloody day, Israeli […]

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The Occupation is Over – Isn’t it?

By Fred Schlomka –First published in Mondoweiss – The term ‘Occupation’ has become almost a cliché in describing Israel’s presence in the territories conquered in 1967. Within Israeli society, the word is little used anymore ( Hebrew: כיבוש).  Many maps published in Israeli school textbooks no longer show the ‘Green Line’, but through various graphical techniques, […]

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Redlining & the Israeli Real Estate Industry

First published as an OP-ED in the Baltimore Sun in 2006, then withdrawn from their website after protests from Zionists in the Baltimore area. by Fred Schlomka – The recent Israeli elections were followed by a number of pronouncements by US officials praising democracy in Israel. However democracy is much more than elections, and many […]

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