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JCall supports SISO

Seven years after the creation of JCall, (the European network for Israel and for peace), our “Call to Reason“ is as relevant as ever. The occupation of Palestinian territories following the Six Day War, which was a war of...

david.chemla14 July 201719 July 2017

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On May 7th, every single ballot must go to Macron

The second round of the presidential election looks more hazardous than it seemed to be last Sunday. This last week, Marine Le Pen has been busy running a sly and pervasive campaign, which allows her to get new allies;...

david.chemla1 May 2017

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Us and the others: Jewish universalism

In Shimon Peres’s funeral ceremony last October in Jerusalem, Tsvia Walden, Shimon’s daughter, not only recited Kaddish according to the egalitarian practice of Reform Judaism but she added to the original text, ending with “Oseh shalom bimromau hu berahamau...

david.chemla22 April 2017

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Come out of the Egypt of the subjugated and out of the Egypt of the subjugators

Every year, the first night of the Passover Seder starts with the four questions generally formulated by children, who ask how this evening is different from other evenings. By reminding us of the singularity of this holiday which commemorates...

david.chemla6 April 2017

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Farewell to Simon Peres, man of security, man of peace

Shimon Peres, who just passed away, at the age of 93, devoted all his life to the service of Israel. During that long and remarkable career, the security and the development of the Jewish State have been his main...

david.chemla3 October 2016

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Two peoples, one peace – a JCall colloquium (Rome, May 16, 2016)

JCall Italy organized a colloquium at the Italian Parliament in Rome on “Two peoples ,one peace”. (To see the video click here) In the current destructive juncture in the Middle East with the disintegration of states and the surge...

david.chemla22 May 201622 May 2016

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“Israel deve puntare sulla pace”, interview of Giorgio Gomel fom JCall Italia

on the left Giorgio Gomel during the meeting of JCall’s delegation in Ramallah with Prime minister Salam Fayyad (april 2013) Confronti is an Italian monthly magazine sponsored by the Federation of Evangelical churches and dedicated to interreligious and intercultural...

david.chemla5 November 2014

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Is Jerusalem burning ?

While Jerusalem is on the verge of exploding, there is still time to prevent the worst from happening. We condemn the attempted murder of Yehuda Glick, an Israeli ultra-right militant and staunch supporter of the building of the Third...

jcall2 November 20143 November 2014

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From the political vacuum to the resurgence of violence

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...

Meir Waintrater11 July 201429 September 2014

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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...

Meir Waintrater17 February 2014

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The B.D.S Threat by Roger Cohen (N.Y.T.)

I am a strong supporter of a two-state peace. The messianic idea of Greater Israel, occupying all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, must wither. Jews, having suffered for most of their history as a minority,...

ouzi.meyerson14 February 201414 February 2014

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JCall statement on Ariel Sharon’s death

In the wake of Ariel Sharon’s death, JCall recalls that the former Prime Minister of Israel belonged to the first generation of pioneers who founded the country. His name will remain closely associated with the defence of Israel, to...

jcall12 January 201413 January 2014

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Water resources, Iran and current negotiations…

On november 30th, 2013, the second session of JCall’s ‘Israel÷Palestine 2020“ conference, launched in Paris on october 6th, took place at Angers university. We had decided to dedicate it to the water problem in the Middle East and to...

emmanuel.gellman9 December 2013

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The Lessons of Oslo

This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Oslo Accords. The disappointment on the part of most Israelis and Palestinians at any mention of the Accords is in direct proportion to the enormous hope that they inspired at...

jcall19 September 2013

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Shana Tova 5774 / 2013

emmanuel.gellman1 September 20131 September 2013