The announcement of Obama’s forthcoming visit to Israel and the West Bank has triggered many comments during the last few days. By announcing his visit well before the constitution of a government in Jerusalem, is Obama seeking to interfere…
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…
Israel Palestine borders
Shaul Arieli describes the positions regarding the border between Israel and the Palestinians. He points to the feasibility of a border agreement to be determined under the 1967 lines and land swap on 1:1 ratio, in which left the majority of Israelis who live beyond the green line under Israeli sovereignty.
Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Shaul Arieli describes the issue of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-historical background, the Israeli Palestinian negotiating proposals, and particularly the consequences of existing trends on the future of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel that has a…
The security issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Shaul Arieli describes the issue of Israel’s security with respect to old threats, and current threats. Arieli shows the security arrangements which were negotiated between Israel and Palestine. To access the website of Shaul Arieli, click here
Building a Fortress Cannot Deliver Security for Israel
The following letter from British Prime Minister David Cameron was received by former New York mayor Ed Koch Tuesday in response to his letter which challenged the Prime Minister over his views on Israeli development in Judea and Samaria. Koch…
The Israeli government endangers the two-state solution
JCall, the European Jewish network for Israel and for peace, expresses its deep concern over the announcement by the Israeli government to build three thousand new housing units in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. The most disturbing aspect…
Comment réagir à la délégitimation d’Israël
Colloque de JCall, le 19 juin 2011 à Paris. Table ronde sur le thème «Comment réagir à la délégitimation d’Israël». Avec Robert Fine, Maurice Szafran, Jacques Tarnero et Meïr Waintrater. Modérateur: Willy Wosztajn.
JCall, European gathering : A year later
JCall – the European Jewish call for reason – calls upon the International Community, particularly the United States and the European Union, to put together all the necessary conditions towards a final conclusion of a peace agreement in the Middle…
An Israeli political initiative is necessary
Faced with the current turmoil in the Middle East, Israel cannot afford to maintain a defensive position and take refuge in a status quo. It is now likely that next September the Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations General…
Condemnation of murder in Itamar
JCall is horrified by the cold-blooded murder of the Fogel family in the settlement of Itamar. We hope that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will bring the perpetrators to justice. These murderous acts only reinforce the extremists and their views…
Let us not be afraid!
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya: the Arab world is in a turmoil. Two authoritarian regimes have already fallen and others may follow. Faced with this unstable situation, Israeli public opinion as well as many Jews in the Diaspora seem paralyzed.…
JCall demands the renewal of a freeze on settlement building, including East Jerusalem
The Israeli government’s desire to exclude East Jerusalem from an agreement on the renewal of a freeze on colonization is a major obstacle today to the re-opening of direct negotiations between the two parties. Such a demand amounts to accepting,…
Paris, 6th October: the first JCall meeting, in the presence of A.B. Yehoshua, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Henri Weber and Alain Finkielkraut
The 6th of October, at 8 pm, we organize the first JCall meeting in France. It will take place in the Rossini room of the 9th arrondissement’s Town Hall, 6 rue Drouot. The Israeli writer A.B. Yehoshua, winner of the…
Press release May, 30th 2010
Four weeks after having launched our appeal, more then 6 000 persons have already signed it. The media coverage it has received in many countries, from Turkey to Canada, from Tunisia to the United States, and of course in most…