A press release by JCall, 7 juillet 2014 Who could have seriously believed that the failure of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would lead to a statu quo ante? We have said it for many years: this “low-intensity“ conflict (the language used by…
Obama to Israel: Time Is Running Out
Jeffrey Goldberg Bloomberg News, Mar. 2, 2014 (excerpts) When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the White House tomorrow, President Barack Obama will tell him that his country could face a bleak future — one of international isolation and…
What Liberal Zionists should say when we’re called naive
Of course most Palestinians wish Israel didn’t exist, but that doesn’t mean they can’t accept it as a tragic reality, in exchange for a state of their own. By Peter Beinart Haaretz, Feb. 19, 2014 To be a Jewish…
Palestinian state, Jewish state
Ari Shavit, Haaretz, Feb. 13, 2014: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not start in 1967 and does not revolve around the occupation and the settlements. It is a deep national-religious-cultural-social conflict, whose foundation is blindness. For decades Zionism refused to…
Wieseltier: Jewish state won’t last unless Israeli-Palestinian conflict solved
Jun. 10, 2013 By The Associated Press (Excerpts) Leon Wieseltier has long maintained a close relationship with the state of Israel. But the Jewish-American author now fears the country’s survival may be in jeopardy — and says much of…
Encountering Peace: Our window of opportunity
By Gershon Baskin, co-chairman of IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. The Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2013 (Excerpts) The ticking clock is not the closing of the window on the two-state solution, but on the political and…
Netanyahu’s “map” is a non-starter
The painful truth is that there is no real land potential in Israeli territory for a 1:1 territorial exchange with the Palestinians. Excerpts from an article by Shaul Arieli (Haaretz, June 3, 2013). Read full article HERE. Israel has come…
Israel is a country running from its future
The State of Israel is a success story. But there is no chance that it will realize the Zionist vision if it does not protect, with all its power, the principles of democracy. Haaretz Editorial Apr.15, 2013 The State…
Why Liberal Zionists Won’t Join BDS
Peter Beinart The Daily Beast / Open Zion Feb 12, 2013 From its start, Open Zion has been a liberal Zionist blog dedicated to open and respectful dialogue with liberal Zionism’s critics, both hawkish Zionists on the right and…
Sitting Down With Amos Oz
By Roger Cohen The New York Times / International Herald Tribune, January 28, 2013 Tel Aviv AMOS Oz, the novelist whose stories and tales have probed the soul of Israel with an intimate insistence, greeted me to his book-lined apartment…