palestina/Israel

Not by cement alone

Amira Hass, Haaretz

The flotilla, like its predecessors and the ones still to come, serves the Israeli goal, which is to complete the process of separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank. The achievement of the failed flotilla to Gaza - mainly, it must be conceded, by its dead - is that the demand is being heard from everywhere that Israel halt its policy of siege.


"Amos Oz: Arab Liberal Love for Israel."

As'ad Abu Khalil, The angry Arab

They want to make of Amos Oz a friend of the Arabs, by force. They want to crown him a king of peace. Those who included a secret clause about normalization with Israel in the Thomas Friedman-Abdullah initiative, they rush to try and vainly influence the political culture of the Arab world. Al-Saud liberal princes enthusiastically promote Amos Oz and his counterparts. They believe him to be a symbol of the “Israeli peace” camp. They try to convince the Arab people of the rightness of Zionism in their midst. That is their desire.

Israeli Jews and the one-state solution

Door: Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2009
Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won't bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end. -- Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009.

One of the most commonly voiced objections to a one-state solution for Palestine/Israel stems from the accurate observation that the vast majority of Israeli Jews reject it, and fear being "swamped" by a Palestinian majority. Across the political spectrum, Israeli Jews insist on maintaining a separate Jewish-majority state.


De Israel-connectie van Geert Wilders

Door:Harm Ede Botje / Freke Vuijst uit de VN 15 oktober 2009

Geert Wilders’ ‘Fitna’ blijkt gebaseerd op de twee jaar eerder uitgebrachte film ‘Obsession’. Wie zijn de makers van die Israëlische film?

Geert Wilders is een grote vriend van Israël. Als middelbare scholier trok hij naar het beloofde land om te werken in een moshav, een collectieve boerderij op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever.

Onlangs doken van die tijd foto’s op die in Vrij Nederland werden gepubliceerd. Naar eigen zeggen is Wilders sindsdien tientallen keren in Israël geweest. Tijdens zijn VVD-jaren kwam hij al steevast op voor de belangen van Israël, wees hij voortdurend op de gevaren van Iran dat met zijn lange-afstandsraketten Israël van de kaart zou kunnen vegen. Maar hij was ook een voorstander van het vredesproces met de Palestijnen.


The coming intifada

By: Yousef Munayyer
This article is republished from the website of The Palestine Center.

Anyone watching the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories recently can tell you that anger and rage is bubbling just below the surface. What may not seem apparent is that a new intifada, or uprising, may be right around the corner.


The UN Must Adopt the Goldstone Report

Door: OMAR BARGHOUTI uit Counterpunch

Palestinian civil society has strongly and almost unanimously condemned the Palestinian Authority's latest decision to delay adoption by the UN Human Rights Council of the report prepared by the UN Fact-Finding Mission, headed by justice Richard Goldstone, into the recent Israeli war of aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza Strip.  A common demand in almost all Palestinian statements issued in this respect was for the UN to adopt the report and act without undue delay on its recommendations in order to bring an end to Israel's criminal impunity and to hold it accountable before international law for its war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza and, indeed, all over the occupied Palestinian territory.  


Israel: funded by U.S. neocons

Funded by U.S. neocons, Shalem researchers now carving Israeli policy
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz18-05-20009


Links en de steun voor het anti-imperialistische Islamitisch verzet

In Libanon en Palestina heeft Links allang gekozen voor samenwerking met islamitische bewegingen als Hezbollah en Hamas. Vooral in westerse landen zien we het tegenovergestelde: volledige afwijzing van deze
bewegingen.


De mythe van Israëls strategische genialiteit

Stephen M. Walt – Foreign Policy

19 januari 2009

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