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Life Thomas Friedman Suggests a Jordanian Option
Thomas Friedman of The New York Times writes: When I reported from Israel in the mid-1980s, the big debate here was whether Israel’s settlement-building in the West Bank had passed a point of no return — a point where any serious withdrawal became virtually impossible to imagine. The question was often framed as: “Is it…
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Life Amos Oz on Rights, Duties, Miracles and the Settlement Movement
The latest issue of the always interesting Moment magazine has a great Q&A with Israeli literary and left-wing luminary Amos Oz. The whole thing is well worth reading, but his critique of the ethos of the West Bank settlement movement is particularly perceptive: So the settlers have a different vision of Zionism that includes the…
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Life Something’s Happened — That ‘Something’ Is the Occupation
Ha’aretz editorializes in response to an investigative broadcast that exposed abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank: This time, it was regular soldiers in the Kfir Brigade. They exposed their backsides and sexual organs to Palestinians, pressed an electric heater to the face of a young boy, beat young boys senseless, recorded…
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