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Jewish men pray early in the morning on the hill overlooking Ofra in the Jewish settlement of Amona in the West Bank, December 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
There is no status quo, only Greater Israel
Netanyahu’s party and government are finally making explicit what has long been implied: rejecting the premise that the Palestinians will ever have a state of their own. Over the past few years, analysts have been using the term “creeping annexation” to describe Israel’s land grabbing, segregationist policies in the West Bank. But over the past…
By Edo Konrad January 3, 2018
A Palestinian from the West Bank village of Bil'in looks out at the Modi'in Illit settlement bloc. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
It’s time for a one-state solution
There is no use convincing the Jewish public to support the two-state solution, especially when over 500,000 settlers live beyond the Green Line and there is no guarantee that a Palestinian state will not be the source of terror against Israelis. The only way forward is to grant full equality to all. By Yonatan Amir…
By +972 Magazine March 23, 2015
The Beaten Path: Seeking refuge in Eilat (part 9)
Israel was borne of a need to escape a violent Europe. Now Israelis feel a constant need to escape a violent Israel. The deconstructed tourist trail reaches the deepest south, which is where they often go. Part nine of Yuval Ben-Ami’s journey through the Holy Land’s most popular tourist sites. Off the Sinai smuggling routes, there’s…
By Yuval Ben-Ami December 4, 2014
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Palestinian and Jewish men speak at protest against settler violence in Jaffa. December 5, 2008 (Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
Jaffa is neither Palestinian nor Jewish: A response to Rami Younis
What kind of democratic struggle excludes people based on their ethno-religious or national identities, and what kind of liberation is really possible when it concerns only one nation and its nationalism? By Benjamin Birely On the evening of May 1st, 1921 the Jaffa-based Socialist Workers Party (MPS), later the “Palestine Communist Party” and a forerunner…
By +972 Magazine June 24, 2014
Moshe Feiglin, head of "Jewish Leadership" group in the Likud (photo: Wikimidia CC)
A ‘truly’ Jewish democracy: On the ideology of Likud’s Moshe Feiglin
Moshe Feiglin is one of the Likud party’s most extreme members, and one of its most clear and systematic ideologues. He is the head of the party’s ‘Jewish Leadership’ group, and the 23rd name on the Likud-Beitenu list for the next Knesset elections. The following is an attempt by religion researcher Tomer Persico to assess…
By +972 Magazine December 17, 2012
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