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Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal. (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)
MK says advocating for two-state solution is treason
Freshman Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal accuses a former Israeli Foreign Ministry director of committing a capital offense: advocating for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Right-wing elements in Israel have long claimed that the two-state solution is national suicide. Logically, it follows that advocating for such an outcome would constitute treason.…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man April 29, 2015
Former Israeli diplomat Alon Liel (Screenshot: SocialTV)
WATCH: The case for recognizing Palestinian statehood in Europe
Former director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Alon Liel, discusses the growing number of European countries recognizing the State of Palestine, and a petition by thousands of Israelis calling on more states to do the same. Watch the full interview here.
By Social TV March 31, 2015
The United Nations Security Council, December 30, 2014. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
WATCH: How a new UNSC resolution could be a game-changer
Following a number of European parliaments’ recognition of Palestinian statehood, a number of public figures in Israel have launched a petition addressed to the UN Security Council, calling on it to set a date for ending the occupation. Former Israeli Ambassador Alon Liel explains why such a UN resolution could be a game-changer. Read the…
By Social TV February 12, 2015
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Israeli bulldozers seen in the settlement of Halamish showing the continued building and expansion of the settlement on the lands of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, April 19, 2013. (Photo by: Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills.org)
WATCH: Encouraging Europe to label Israeli settlement products
Will Israel’s largest trading partner (the EU) use its economic muscle against Israeli settlements? Some famous former officials from Israel and beyond are calling for just that. The European Union once again dragged its feet on a decision to implement the labeling of products from Israeli settlements this May, in deference to John Kerry’s latest…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 1, 2013
An Israeli prison guard escorts Samer Issawi, a Palestinian political prisoner, out of his court hearing in Jerusalem, January 16, 2013. Samer Issawi is on his 174th day of hunger strike, the court postponed the decision in his case to the 5th of February, 2013. (Photo by: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Hunger-striker Samer Issawi is another statistic in an unjust legal system
Unlike Prisoner X, there is no public outrage in Israel over the way the legal system is preventing Samer Issawi from receiving a fair trial. But then again, Issawi is Palestinian. Samer Issawi, the Palestinian prisoner who has been on an intermittent hunger strike for over 200 days, had his day in court on Thursday.…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 21, 2013
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