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9-22-2021 Former State Department chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson says Israel will be “gone” in 20 years - Philip Weiss Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2021/09/israel-will-be-gone-in-20-years-wilkerson/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-email-mailpoet   Wilkerson's insights include that Israel is a "strategic liability of the first order" for the United States and is "the most likely state in the world to take the United States to Armageddon"   and that Israel won't exist as a state in 20 years because it is delegitimizing itself as an apartheid state…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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9-2-2021 JNF Approves West Bank, Jerusalem Plan That Could Lead to Palestinian Evictions Hagar Shezaf Haarretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jnf-approves-west-bank-jerusalem-plan-that-could-lead-to-palestinian-evictions-1.10177648 The five-year, 100 million shekel plan includes 530 files about deals for the purchase of West Bank properties and another 2,050 for the Jerusalem area Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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5-11-2021 Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return – Peter Beinart Jewish Currents

https://jewishcurrents.org/teshuvah-a-jewish-case-for-palestinian-refugee-return/   …Why is dreaming of return laudable for Jews but pathological for Palestinians?...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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8-10-2021 Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it? - Shaul Magid +972

https://www.972mag.com/haifa-republic-book-review-liberal-zionism/   In " Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel , NYU philosopher Omri Boehm calls for re-envisioning Zionism as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values...   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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8-1-2021 Israel Wants to Become a Petroleum Superpower, and the Climate Crisis Can Wait - Zafrir Rinat Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-wants-to-become-a-petroleum-superpower-and-the-climate-crisis-can-wait-1.10068600 A visit to state-owned EAPC facilities in Ashkelon, one of the world's 20 largest oil storage facilities, make the recent cabinet resolution promising a low-carbon future for the Israeli economy seem like science fiction… Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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7-302021 Mohammed [Tamimi] Was Looking for His Little Brother When Israeli Soldiers Shot Him Dead at Close Range - Gideon Lev & Alex Levac Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/.premium.MAGAZINE-mohammed-was-fetching-his-brother-when-idf-troops-shot-him-at-close-range-1.10055430   … Mohammed Munir Tamimi was the fifth person killed in recent years in the village of Nabi Saleh , not far from Ramallah in the West Bank, almost all of whose residents are from the Tamimi clan…Nabi Saleh called off its regular Friday anti-occupation demonstrations in 2016, after six years, when the IDF started to use snipers and live ammunition against the unarmed inhabitants. But more people have been killed there since the demonstrations ended than during the period when they were taking place…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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8-17-2021 Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel – Omri Boehm New York Review of Books

https://www.nyrb.com/products/haifa-republic-a-democratic-future-for-israel?variant=13996267896884   …The philosopher Omri Boehm argues for…a single binational state in which Palestinians and Jews both possess human rights and equal citizenship.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member
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