Americans for Peace Now: Recommended Readings Archives

New York Times: "In Israel, Settling for Less"

August 29, 2010 2:44 PM | No Comments

By GADI TAUB

Tel Aviv

WILL Israel remain a Zionist state? If so, what kind? These are the important questions in Israeli politics today, and will be looming over the direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority scheduled to begin Thursday in Washington.

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Jerusalem Post: "Is it only McCarthyism?" by Galia Golan

August 25, 2010 4:30 PM | 1 Comment

Golan, a Peace Now founder and Executive Committee Member, is the former head of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and currently professor of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.

(This article first appeared in Maariv.)

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What we are experiencing here in Israel with regard to the attack on academia and civil society may resemble more the Soviet Union than America of the '50s.

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NOREF (Norwegian Peace Building Centre): "Jerusalem on the brink" by Daniel Seidemann

August 16, 2010 5:13 PM | No Comments

Summary

The Israeli-Palestinian situation today is eerily reminiscent of the situation in 2000 when plummeting expectations, coupled with events in Jerusalem, triggered an eruption that devastated the political process.

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Say no to annexation

By Stacey Pistritto on July 26, 2010 12:50 PM | No Comments

By Gadi Taub

July 25, 2010

Recently we've been hearing voices in the rightist camp calling for annexation of Judea and Samaria to the State of Israel. The call for annexation in and of itself isn't new. It's been an old demand made by religious settlers. The Yesha Council's constitutive document already called for annexation.

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Foreign Policy: "While No One's Looking, the Palestinians Are Building a State"

June 16, 2010 11:59 AM | No Comments

Now it's time for the rest of the world to pitch in.

BY HUSSEIN IBISH

Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.

In the world of Palestinian politics, the recent weeks have been a study in contrasts. The international media has trained its focus off the shores of Gaza, where the flotilla fiasco has generated dramatic images of dead civilians and battered Israeli soldiers.

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Dissent Magazine & TPM: "End the Gaza Blockade"

June 14, 2010 8:50 PM | No Comments

By Jo-Ann Mort - June 4, 2010

There is a lot of misinformation flying around about what is going on in Gaza. Didn't Israel evacuate Gaza? Are people in Gaza starving? What is going on with the Egyptian side of the border? Does Hamas want peace with Israel or not? Is the current blockade stopping arms from entering Gaza via Iran? I hope that those who read this post read it carefully. It would be great to engage in useful, intelligent dialogue on this site.

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LA Jewish Journal: "A Narrowing of Heart and Mind: The American Jewish Response to the Flotilla"

June 8, 2010 9:56 AM | No Comments

by Rabbi Sharon Brous

I am certain that I am not the only person who left Sunday's Solidarity Rally for Israel with a profound sense of unease. While I was not greeted with boos and jeers, like Peace Now's David Pine (my speech elicited more confusion: "Wait, she's a rabbi. Isn't she on our side? What does she mean, 'We can do better'?"), I was devastated by what I can only understand to be a tragic narrowing of the American Jewish heart and mind.

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New York Times: "Israeli Force, Adrift on the Sea" by Amos Oz

June 1, 2010 7:42 PM | 1 Comment

ARAD, Israel

For 2,000 years, the Jews knew the force of force only in the form of lashes to our own backs. For several decades now, we have been able to wield force ourselves -- and this power has, again and again, intoxicated us.

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Ha'aretz Editorial: "The price of flawed policy"

June 1, 2010 4:57 PM | No Comments

Relations with Turkey will probably deteriorate further, and there may even be serious damage on the official level.

When a regular, well-armed, well-trained army goes to war against a "freedom flotilla" of civilian vessels laden with civilians, food and medication, the outcome is foretold - and it doesn't matter whether the confrontation achieved its goal and prevented the flotilla from reaching Gaza.

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Guardian: "The Gaza flotilla attack shows how far Israel has declined" by David Grossman

June 1, 2010 4:04 PM | No Comments

"The closure of Gaza is the consequence of a clumsy, calcified policy, which resorts by default to the use of massive force"

David Grossman is a renowned Israeli author and peace activist

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