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Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope – Theirs and Ours

Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope – Theirs and Ours

Of all of the crises that afflict us, the growing democratic deficit may be the most severe. Unless it is reversed, [Arundhati] Roy’s forecast may prove accurate. The conversion of democracy to a performance with the public as mere spectators-hardly a distant possibility-might have truly dire consequences. Read more »

Jimmy Carter: The Elders’ View Of the Middle East

Jimmy Carter: The Elders’ View Of the Middle East

We found a growing sense of concern and despair among those who observe, as we did, that settlement expansion is continuing apace, rapidly encroaching into Palestinian villages, hilltops, grazing lands, farming areas and olive groves. There are more than 200 of these settlements in the West Bank. Read more »

Israel’s Gadfly: Robert Hirschfield interviews Gideon Levy

Israel’s Gadfly: Robert Hirschfield interviews Gideon Levy

Q: Some Israelis criticize you for writing the same kinds of stories about abuses over and over again.

A: That’s right. They don’t ask why the abuses continue to happen, they ask why I continue to write about them. Read more »

Rachel Giora: A modest proposal

Rachel Giora: A modest proposal

Ben Gurion University students’ democracy lesson following the Neve Gordon Los Angeles Times article and reactions: “we are taught history, but we are forbidden to learn from it. In gender studies, we are taught to identify violent discourse, but we are expected to go on speaking the routine and familiar militaristic language. We are taught to be social workers, but not to identify with exploited cleaning workers. Learning is allowed, but not drawing practical conclusions – especially not in a newspaper, in English, with a large circulation.” Read more »

Amira Hass: The violence outside the statistics

Amira Hass: The violence outside the statistics

From the most senior military judge down to the lowest private at a checkpoint, hundreds of thousands of perfectly normal Israelis who are not violent at home are partners in the mission of administering, demarcating, restricting and taming the other society while cumulatively damaging its rights, welfare and well-being. This is the norm that is not taken into account here in the statistics on violence and the violent. Read more »

Akiva Eldar: Freeze in Jerusalem too

Akiva Eldar: Freeze in Jerusalem too

If there is any truth in the reports that came out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Europe – that the United States agreed Israel can go on building in East Jerusalem – the headlines should have read “Obama has pulled out of the Middle East peace process.” Read more »

Gideon Levy: Return Gilad Shalit, but not at any price

Gideon Levy: Return Gilad Shalit, but not at any price

About 7,700 Palestinians are imprisoned in Israel, including about 450 without the benefit of a trial. Most of them are not murderers, although they are all automatically labeled as such here. The demonstrators at Megiddo would do well to realize this. Some of the prisoners are political detainees in the full sense of the word, from members of the Palestinian parliament imprisoned without trial, which is a scandal in and of itself, to those behind bars because of their “affiliation.” Innocent people are among them as well as political activists and nonviolent protesters.

IOA Editor: In this Israeli-centric commentary, Levy calls attention to the status of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Read more »

Daoud Kuttab: Fayyad’s Brilliant Two-Year Plan for Palestinian Statehood

Daoud Kuttab: Fayyad’s Brilliant Two-Year Plan for Palestinian Statehood

Palestinians have finally started to act in a different way. Instead of cursing the occupation, the new strategy is aimed at building up the desired Palestinian state. The idea is to force the Israelis to the negotiating table rather than beg them to come. The way to do that is to work for a state as if there were negotiations. This idea has been brilliantly developed by the Palestinian prime minister. Read more »

Gideon Levy: The last refuge – the Legitimacy of a Boycott

Gideon Levy: The last refuge – the Legitimacy of a Boycott

So let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag. Read more »

Anat Matar: Israeli academics must pay the price to end occupation

Anat Matar: Israeli academics must pay the price to end occupation

[Dr. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University] believes, and so do I, that only when the Israeli society’s well-heeled strata pay a real price for the continuous occupation, will they finally take genuine steps to put an end to it… The vast majority retains its freedom to be indifferent, up to the moment that someone begs the international community for rescue. Then the voices rise from right and left, the indifference disappears, and violence replaces it: Boycott Israeli universities? This strikes at the holy of holies, academic freedom! Read more »

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