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 answer…
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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 the…
Time for action!
Will the forthcoming new Jewish year, 5774, be the year when we finally witness the signing of an agreement that brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an end? Or will the current negotiations join the long list of missed opportunities between…
Back from Israel-Palestine
In an article appearing in the French language edition of the Huffington Post on June 25, Marie-Nadine Prager, Secretary General of Socialism & Judaism, Vice President of EuroCité and a member of JCall France, shares her impressions upon returning from…
Opinion : “Bennett and Katz Playing into the Hands of Hamas ” (Yariv Oppenheimer)
In October 2011 the Israeli government, with a huge majority including most of the Likud’s ministers, voted in favor of releasing more than 1027 Palestinian prisoners, 280 of them having been convicted for murder and assisting in the murder of…
On Palestinians, Israel’s Leadership Has a Split Personality
Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg asked in an article published in Forward on June 09, 2013 why can’t the political and security establishment agree? In late February 2002, shortly after Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah presented columnist Thomas Friedman with his famous…
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…
Presentation of the JCall’s tour
From April, 27th to May, 5th, a hundred of JCall’s members coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Nederland and Switzerland will travel on the roads of Israel and the Palestinians territories. This first trip organized by JCall in Israel…
“Why the New Palestinian-Only Bus Lines Are Not a Big Deal“ by Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine’s advice column. Israeli authorities…
The post-electoral tragi-comedy
Nearly three weeks after having been named by President Shimon Peres to form the next government, Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He is supposed to have formed a coalition by early March, with the…
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…