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The transformative legacy of Mr. Status Quo
Benjamin Netanyahu made everybody believe there could never be an alternative to the so-called 'status quo.' His departure should serve as a reminder that one always exists.
By
Noam Sheizaf
June 13, 2021
We are all one staters now
The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.
By
Noam Sheizaf
December 27, 2019
The right’s plan to get rid of Israel’s High Court
The far right wants to defang Israel’s highest court to fulfill its annexationist dreams. Netanyahu wants to overpower it to ensure he remains on the throne. For Palestinians, annexation has long been a fact on the ground. By Meron Rapoport The attacks on Israel’s High Court by the right would not have gained traction without Prime Minister Netanyahu’s personal support. These…
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+972 Magazine
May 24, 2019
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+972 poll: Israelis reject the status quo, fear int’l isolation
Over 70 percent of Israelis are worried about international isolation. Half believe settlements strengthen Israeli security and over half support a breakthrough vision for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – roughly the same rate of support for the traditional two-state paradigm. But one-quarter support an apartheid vision for the future. Half the population supports anchoring Jewish…
By
Dahlia Scheindlin
December 24, 2014
Bennett is not the problem
American administrations have a tendency to blame the ‘radical’ settlers for torpedoing peace missions. The real problem, however, is with the ‘moderates’ who are complicit in maintaining the status quo. There is a lot of talk in some circles about Naftali Bennett’s appearance at the Saban Forum last weekend (video below). Bennett, who heads the…
By
Noam Sheizaf
December 9, 2014
Israel’s UN ambassador puts another nail in the two-state coffin
‘Imagine the type of state [Palestinian] society would produce. Does the Middle East really need another terror-ocracy?’ Prosor said in a speech on Monday. In recent years Israeli government officials have learned that rejecting the rights of Palestinians should always go hand-in-hand with a verbal commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state. But the…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 25, 2014
Welcome to Netanyahu’s ‘resolution’ to the conflict
Netanyahu, Bennett and Lieberman all promised Israelis quiet and prosperity without having to end the occupation. This is what we got instead. Following this morning’s horrifying terror attack, it’s not so difficult to imagine how Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Liberman or Benjamin Netanyahu might describe the current government if they weren’t its leaders. You can almost…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 18, 2014
A siege of inertia: Israel’s non-policy on Gaza
One government inherits the siege from another, the prime minister admits it’s more harmful than helpful, the cabinet never formulates or even discusses a policy, and one minister goes as far as admitting that the only driving force behind Israel’s Gaza policy is inertia. By Itamar Sha’altiel There is something tempting about trying to connect all…
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+972 Magazine
October 13, 2014
There’s nothing static about the West Bank ‘status quo’
Israel is already carrying out Bennett’s annexation plan, only without the formal annexation part. The West Bank is a very different place than it was 10 years ago. It will be even more different five or 10 years from now. The indispensable Amira Hass reported this morning about an Israeli plan to push thousands of Palestinian-Bedouin into…
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Noam Sheizaf
September 16, 2014
Replacing the peace process with a civil rights struggle
What would happen if Israeli progressives and their supporters demanded an end to the military court system, or called for freedom of movement for Palestinians? The answer: a lot. The two-state solution has long been transformed from a means (to solving the problem of the occupation) to an end. As I wrote here in the…
By
Noam Sheizaf
September 9, 2014
This is Netanyahu’s final status solution
The Gaza war should be seen as part of Israel’s overall strategy, which aims to maintain the current status quo in the Palestinian Territories. One of the Israeli Right’s greatest political achievements was convincing the public that “we tried the Left’s ideas, and they failed.” Some even say that the current reality is the outcome…
By
Noam Sheizaf
August 4, 2014
Halfway through timeframe, Palestinian-Israeli talks are going nowhere
The two parties haven’t met in almost a month, and Israeli politicians are now openly discussing the success of maintaining the status quo. Even the crisis with the European Union is over. Roughly halfway through the current round of negotiations, the talks between Israeli and Palestinians negotiators have hit a new low point. Palestinian chief…
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Noam Sheizaf
November 28, 2013
The secret to Netanyahu’s success
A few days ago, Haaretz’s West Bank correspondence Chaim Levinson used his Facebook page to ask about the reasons for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s success. Here is an excerpt from Levinson’s post: What is in this man that Israelis cannot imagine life without him? […] In my opinion, [Netanyahu] does nothing. A coward pretending to be a leader…
By
Noam Sheizaf
November 17, 2013
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