The Brookings Institution (2012)
Natan B. Sachs (Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy) discusses the recent increase in
settler violence, why it should be termed Terrorism, and its effect on the peace process. (11:36) Watch
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Gad Lior and Yuval Karni / Yedioth Ahronoth (August 2012)
Examination of the financial bonus that settlements enjoy compared to areas inside of the Green Line. Read
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Zogby Research Services / The Arab American Institute (August 2012)
Finds that
a plurality of Americans (40%) believe U.S. policy should steer a "middle course" between Israelis and
Palestinians. Also finds strong bipartisan support for the idea that Israelis and Palestinians are "equal people
entitled to equal rights," with 43% supporting a two-state solution, a shared Jerusalem, the evacuation of most
settlements, and a Palestinian right of return to the new Palestinian state. Only 14% oppose such a plan. Read More >
The Calcalist / Israel News Today (2012)
Summary of a major report on government spending on settlements. Among other notable conclusions, the report shows
that spending on settlements increased by 38% under the Netanyahu government (from 2010 to 2011) and totaled NIS 27
billion from 1992 to 2011. Read More >
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A former IDF medical officer and a Palestinian from a refugee camp are seeing the conflict in a whole new way
this summer.
WASHINGTON -- When Waleed Issa walked into the Americans for Peace Now (APN) Washington, DC office on the first day
of his summer internship in June, the 25-year-old Palestinian from the Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem was
startled by what he saw.
In Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf wrote, "As a woman my country is the whole world." I used to believe this; I thought divisions of nation, race, class, and faith could be trumped by a universalist vision of gender equality, justice, and peace.
Then came the UN's Decade for Women. In 1975, its first international conference famously produced the "Zionism is racism" resolution. Five years later, when the second conference saw virulent anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric, threats, and violence, I asked myself, why am I working to liberate women if they're going to turn around and attack Jews?
Dear Friend of Israel,
Christians of the West have long been the unnamed third party to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Most obviously, the ancient Church assumption that Jewish exile from the Jewish homeland was a proof of claims for Jesus still casts its shadow. Similarly, European colonialism, with its Christsanctioned underpinning, spawned what Edward Said called "Orientalism," a permanent factor in Palestinian dispossession from lands on which they resided for centuries. In effect, Jews and Arabs confront one another in a corner, the walls of which neither created.