For decades, the two-state solution has been the consensus advocated by liberal and left-Zionist groups, political parties; and foreign states (including the US and EU) seeking to mediate the Israel-Palestine conflict. US administrations (with the glaring exception of one) have routinely criticized Israeli settlement policy as endangering the chance for such a two-state agreement. Based […]
Can Ethiopia-Eritrea Reconciliation Offer Hope for Israel-Palestine?
A young girl in Asmara celebrates. She will get to grow up only knowing #Eritrea & #Ethiopia as two independent countries at peace w each other. May she know her history and never see the loss, fighting, suffering & trauma of war so many of us grew up with. She is our future. pic.twitter.com/QbeF7aEYDb — […]
Israeli Academics Call for End to Forced Expulsion of African Refugees
As the Israeli Knesset passes legislation which will permit the forced expulsion of nearly 60,000 African refugees who fled torture and violence in their homelands, various segments of Israeli society have mobilized to oppose this horrible phenomenon, which is a violation of international humanitarian law. Rabbis, including Sarah Silverman’s sister, have vowed to offer refugees […]
Israel’s Dirty Little Secret: Massive Arms Exports to, and Secret Military Exercises with Muslim Nations
Yossi Melman, an eternal scourge of Israeli military censorship, has published yet another harsh critique of the IDF censor and its chilling effect on the Israeli media. He begins by noting that before Israeli Navy’s Commando Force 13 intercepted and commandeered the Karina A, a ship carrying Iranian arms intended for the Palestinians, it rehearsed […]
