Stranded in Paris by this new war, Hillel Schenker reports on a successful conference of Israeli and Palestinian civil society activists, and a joint Iranian-Israeli call for a ceasefire and renewed diplomacy.
Analyzing two pieces in The Forward: a review of a documentary film about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia, and an article about the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza.
This is a report on recent activities of Israel’s Peace Now organization to oppose the Netanyahu government’s efforts to diplace Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
2024 represents yet more descent down the slippery slope toward a conflicted, non-democratic, immoral, isolated, messianic and binational entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Yet … Israel’s security community registered dramatic victories over Iran, Hezbollah and almost the entire Axis of Resistance or Shiite Crescent.
The October 7 Hamas attack has reset a new regional order in the Middle East, thanks in part to Israel’s offensive moves against Hezbollah and Iran. But these may be creating political openings for a more peaceful future.
“I came to understand that the current conflict is not all black and white as some people paint it. I learned how important Israel is to Jews worldwide, especially in the present times, why it had been created, but also how Israelis had been affected by the past decades of intermittent war with its Arab neighbours.”
A veteran Palestinian activist embraces the Olmert/al-Kidwa plan for a two state solution. He outlines a key need for both Israelis and Palestinians to “gain control over their violent tendencies.”
An unofficial agreement between Israel’s one-time prime minister and an ex-foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority broadly outlines what a two-state peace agreement could look like.
Transcript and video recording of the DNC speech of the parents of an American hostage in Gaza. The video includes the supportive emotional reaction of the Convention audience.
While the world has been focusing on the Gaza war, Israel’s right-wing government has taken alarming new steps to expand West Bank settlements and their infrastructure.
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