population exchange

Palestinian refugee children seen in a makeshift school in Nablus, West Bank, 1948. (Hanini/CC BY-SA 3.0)

For Israelis the Nakba is a footnote. For Palestinians it’s the heart of the conflict

Israelis tend to view the expulsions of the 1948 war as a small, local affair that was quite restrained compared to the Nazi genocide. For Palestinians, it is an ongoing dispossession. By Sam Freed To large portions of the Jewish Israeli public, the Nakba was small event — an historical side note. To most Palestinians, on the…

By +972 Magazine May 26, 2019

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Photo by Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Liberman’s de-patriation plan of illusions

Liberman’s proposal to cure Palestinian citizens of their ‘split personality’ violates pretty much everything democracy stands for. Headlines blazed in Friday’s Yedioth Ahronoth announcing the outlines of a peace proposal released by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. It’s not clear what prompted Liberman to release the plan at this moment – campaign considerations, a brief drop in attention…

By Dahlia Scheindlin November 29, 2014

A Palestinian photographer standing during a minute of silence commemorating the Nakba, as part of a ceremony that was held by Palestinian and Israeli students in the entrance to the Tel Aviv University, May 13, 2013. A right wing demonstration was held against the ceremony, as the protesters were shouting slogans against the participants, under police surveillance. (Photo by: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

To maintain democracy, citizenship must be guaranteed

It’s time to put a stop to the immoral and impractical attempts to rid ourselves of the Arab citizens of Israel, and start thinking in terms of securing their bond to Israel secure – making them true partners in Israeli society. By Yaniv Sagee Those who thought there could not be serious peace negotiations between…

By +972 Magazine January 17, 2014

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Avigdor Lieberman (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

For Palestinian citizens, nothing but contempt and rejection for Liberman plan

‘Liberman’s proposals spoil the delicate fabric of relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel. They come from a man who paved his political path using right-wing statements, erecting barriers in the process of peace and leading us to fear and despair.’ By Riad Kabaha I was born in the early 1950s as an Israeli citizen.…

By +972 Magazine January 17, 2014

Security forces practice for “riots following populations exchange”, mass detention of Palestinians

IBA Radio is reporting that Israel’s security forces ended Thursday a large national drill, in which the civil defense forces, police, military police, fire department and Israel’s prisons unit trained for large scale riots in the Israeli-Arab public, following a signing of a peace agreement that would include “population exchange” (transfer of Arab population to…

By Noam Sheizaf October 8, 2010