Moshe Arens

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a YouTube address (Screenshot).

With one viral video, Netanyahu rewrote Israeli history

By accusing Palestinians of attempting to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Jews, Netanyahu is not only distorting history, he is actively delegitimizing both the Palestinians and the Israeli Left. By Na’aman Hirschfeld “Ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a particular territory with the intent of making it ethnically or religiously homogeneous. That’s the…

By Haokets October 2, 2016

‘Balfour at Jewish colonies’, 1925. (Photo by American Colony, Jerusalem)

The colonialist skeletons in Israel’s closet

Modern believers in the meaning, importance and necessity of Israel as a safe home for Jews had best come to terms with its less-than-organic birth — it did not magically appear on the sands of an empty landscape. By David Sarna Galdi A day before the Paris peace summit last month, director general of Israel’s…

By +972 Magazine July 3, 2016

A section of Israel's separation wall in the West Bank. (Activestills.org)

Rightists say bring down the Wall, leftists say let’s keep it

Noted right-wingers call to demolish the separation wall. True, they are driven by a desire for annexation, but the Left finds itself in an unseemly position – defending one of the great injustices of the occupation in the name of the distant prospect of two states. Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens yesterday told Ma’ariv he thinks the…

By Dimi Reider April 11, 2013

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Israel-Palestine flag (Oren neu dag)

Why it’s time to discuss the one-state solution

Secular, binational, and more: there are plenty of one-state models that can and should be discussed. But what’s becoming increasingly clear to figures from both the right and the left is that the feasibility of the two-state solution must be reconsidered. By Yoav Kapshuk It is time to start a public discussion about possible and…

By +972 Magazine September 18, 2012

Settler MK Uri Ariel calls for one state

Knesset member joins other rightwing leaders in call for annexing West Bank, one state solution. One of the well known figures in the settler movement, Knesset Member Uri Ariel from the radical rightwing National Union Party, is publicly calling for a one-state solution as an alternative to the construction of a Palestinian state, the independent…

By Noam Sheizaf March 5, 2012

The one-state solution: An option that should be taken off the table

“Right there, beyond those trees, is the Green Line,” our tour guide said, as he pointed to a valley on our right. I was a junior-high student in Haifa, and we were on a field trip on the way to Jerusalem. As our old bus slowly crawled up one of the roads winding through the…

By Ami Kaufman September 10, 2010