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Borders
Bad Borders,
Good Neighbors
Ephraim Sneh | The New York Times
July 10, 2011
"Today, as American, European, Russian and United Nations officials meet in Washington to discuss the future of the Middle East peace process, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, remains adamant that a peace deal premised on returning to Israel’s pre-1967 borders poses an unacceptable risk to its security.. . ." Read More >
As Congress And
Netanyahu Line Up Against 1967 Borders, Most Israelis And Palestinians Support Them
Zaid
Jilani | ThinkProgress
May 23, 2011
"Last week, in a speech on the Middle East, President Obama reiterated long-standing US policy that
there should be a final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is based roughly on the pre-1967
borders and mutually agreed land swaps. Despite the fact that Obama’s declaration was nothing new . . ." Read More
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Israel Doesn't Need the
West Bank To Be Secure
Martin Van Creveld | The Jewish Daily Forward
December 15, 2010
"When everything is said and done, how important is the West Bank to Israel’s defense? To answer the
question, our best starting point is the situation before the 1967 war. At that time, the Arab armed forces
surrounding Israel outnumbered the Jewish state’s army by a ratio of 3-to-1. Not only was the high ground in Judea
and Samaria in Jordanian hands . . ." Read More >
Security
Bar-Lev Line in the Jordan Valley
Dov Weisglass | Yedioth
Ahronoth
January 2, 2014
"The Israeli demand for a military presence in the Jordan Valley, irrespective of its complete rejection
by the Palestinians, requires in-depth examination. Is it really necessary as a security need? Is an IDF force
deployed along the seam between Jordan and the Palestinian state the proper security response . . ." Read More
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Who's
Afraid of Palestine?
Akiva Eldar | Al-Monitor
May 7, 2014
"A series of studies claims that the establishment of a Palestinian state would benefit regional stability and boost economic growth in tourism, communications and agriculture . . ." Read More >
On Palestine, Israel's Leadership Has a Split Personality
J.J. Goldberg |
The Jewish Daily Forward
June 9, 2013
"In late February 2002, shortly after Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah presented columnist Thomas Friedman
with his famous Saudi peace plan, the director of Israel’s vaunted Mossad went to his boss, Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon. His advice: Welcome the initiative as a bold step toward peace . . ." Read
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The Siren Call
of Israeli Unilateralism
Lara Friedman | The Daily Beast
June 18, 2012
"With Israeli-Palestinian efforts at an impasse and immediate-term hopes for progress toward any agreement fading,
the appeal of new ideas is understandable. This is no doubt why discussion of Israeli unilateral options—generally
in terms of unilateral “withdrawals” from the West Bank—is in the air . . ." Read More
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Jerusalem
Status
quo on the Temple Mount
Daniel Seidemann and Lara Friedman | Foreign Policy
October 17, 2012
"Recent developments in Jerusalem pose a threat to the stability of the city and to the region. The
world saw a preview over the recent Jewish holidays, when activists challenged the Israeli-imposed ban on Jewish
prayer on the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif. Sensitivities at the site tend to peak during
any holiday season. . . ." Read More
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Jerusalem the
divisible
Richard M. Goldwasser | The Times of Israel
June 6, 2012
"Forty-five years ago today, on June 7, 1967, Israeli forces marched triumphantly into the Old City of Jerusalem, and for the first time in two millennia, the Jewish people gained sovereignty over the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest sites. Concerned about international reaction . . ." Read More >
Top 10 Myths Likely to be Hear from Jerusalem Mayor Nirk Barkat in Washington This
Week
Lara Friedman and Daniel Seidemann | APN Blog
April 27, 2010
"To help prepare the mayor's Washington interlocutors for what will no doubt be a lively exchange of
views, Jerusalem expert Daniel Seidemann and APN's Lara Friedman have assembled this guide to some of the most
prominent - and inaccurate - assertions often heard about Jerusalem . . ." Read More >
Loving
Jerusalem, With Maturity
Daniel Seidemann / The Jewish Daily Forward
May 13, 2009
"On May 21, Jerusalemites, barely recovered from a city shut down by a papal visit, will brace themselves for yet
another round of massive gridlock. Throngs of religious-nationalist youth will take over the center of town.
Yeshiva students will march en masse into the Old City, in celebration of the “reunification” of Jerusalem in 1967
. . ." Read More >
Refugees
Exploiting Jews from Arab Countries
Lara Friedman | The Daily
Beast
August 2, 2012
"Last month saw an assault in Congress on Palestinian refugees—an effort to use legislation to re-define
the Palestinian refugee issue out of existence. This week the other shoe dropped, when a bipartisan group of
members of Congress introduced a new bill embracing the cause of “Jewish refugees from Arab countries” in a way
that Congress has never replicated on the Palestinian side . . ." Read More
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Mental illness soars in
Gaza
Rasha Abou Jalal / Foreign Policy
May 7, 2014
"Abu Ashraf, a 47-year-old Gazan, spends the majority of his time in his small room with no means of entertainment and only leaves to use the restroom. He sits on his bed for long hours, smoking, with no desire to see or talk to anyone . . ." Read More >
Palestinians and Israelis can coexist if occupation ends
Hussein Ibish /
The National
January 18, 2013
"The unstable and unhealthy relationship of dominance and subordination, of discipline and control
through violence, built into Israel’s occupation was graphically illustrated this week in two separate, tragic and
bloody incidents . . ." Read More
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Racism in Israel:
A Predictable Byproduct of Occupation
Lara Friedman / APN Blog
July 26, 2012
"Two generations of Israelis have now been born and raised in an Israel that must constantly find ways to justify
the occupation, including justifying both the denial of rights and freedoms to Palestinians and the ever-growing
settlement enterprise . . ." Read More
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Go to Hebron
Ori Nir / APN Blog
May 5, 2009
"Go to Hebron. Observe how several hundreds of ultra-national Israeli settlers, a minority in a
Palestinian town of 160,000 - have turned the lives of its Palestinians residents into a living hell. . . ."
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