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Apartheid in the Republic of South Africa. A beach for Whites only near the integrated fishing village of Kalk Bay, not far from Capetown. January 1, 1970. (UN Photo/KM)

The road from apartheid: Lessons, warnings and hope from South Africa

Democracy didn’t solve apartheid’s problems – it sparked a process of addressing them that could not start beforehand. South Africa should remind Israeli and Palestinian leaders that the road to transformation is long and imperfect – and it must start now. With the possibility that four-term Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could one day fall due…

By Dahlia Scheindlin August 22, 2017

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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Farah, prepare to depart after a visit to the United States. (photo: WIkicommons)

Zionism and the Shah: On the Iranian elite’s evolving perceptions of Israel

It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. By Lior Sternfeld The relationship between…

By Haokets May 18, 2013

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What’s next for Egypt, Israel and the elusive peace treaty?

The Camp David Accords, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty brokered by President Jimmy Carter, survived 30 years under ousted president Hosni Mubarak. But the treaty was never popular amongst the people. Will it survive in the post-Mubarak era? By Nervana Mahmoud When Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Peace Treaty in 1979, he probably did not…

By +972 Magazine February 25, 2012

President Carter and The Elders discuss Palestinian reconciliation

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tObASEDnJY&[/youtube]

By +972 Magazine May 12, 2011

President Jimmy Carter at Sheikh Jarrah

From the protest on Friday, October 22, 2010. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snC_krTBaYQ[/youtube]

By +972 Magazine October 24, 2010