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http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/struggle-palestine-1930s.html Submitted by Judith Ferster, posted by Sam Bryan, AIME members

Full article: http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/palestine-historical-background.html Like many observers I am both sick at heart and emotionally drained from watching and reading about the horrible events in Gaza. Is there more to be said about them? Yes, I think there is if we hope to achieve a degree of security and peace. So, at the risk of duplication, allow me to show how the events of today were preordained and how patterns of action have been repeated year after year. Media reported day-by-day events are difficult to comprehend without some sense of how they were shaped so I have here laid out a historical guide. Some of it, or perhaps even most of it, may be familiar, but I have tried to “connect the dots” in a way that I do not believe has been satisfactorily done. Only if we understand the history can we hope to help solve this very complex, often shameful and sometimes dangerous problem. F...

http://forward.com/articles/204492/planting-seeds-of-mideast-peace-in-time-of-war/ ?   … When John Wallach, then the foreign editor of Hearst Newspapers, hatched the concept of the camp as a peacemaking venture, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was already many decades old; Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza had been in place for 26 years; thousands and thousands had been killed. Wallach believed that a good part of the conflict's intractability was due to the mutual demonization of the people on the other side. Amid the burst of optimism that accompanied the 1993 Oslo peace talks, he convinced Israel's then-foreign minister, Shimon Peres, and officials from Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization to send 15 boys each to launch the camp the next summer. Five thousand two hundred graduates later, the camp's mission has grown to include girls, and also teens from other conflict areas whose people are ...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/20/the-dilemma-of-the-liberal-zionist/     Conclusion: You simply cannot adhere to the principle of universal civil and political rights and, at the same time, support a Zionist state. To do so is to involve oneself in a contradiction. The liberals are being forced to face this fact. And, as this happens, they will have to make a real choice: cease being Zionist or cease adhering to the liberal ideal. I suspect that, along with Ari Shavit, most of them will decide to "stand with the damned." Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://972mag.com/10000-protest-in-tel-aviv-for-a-just-peace-end-to-occupation/95569/ Submitted by Judith Ferster, posted by Sam Bryan, AIME members

http://972mag.com/palestinian-unity-is-no-substitute-for-a-viable-political-system/95634/ Submitted by Judith Ferster, posted by Sam Bryan, AIME members  

Full article: http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/1.609919?v=8F13CF49D4475B86128120D26FF8D121 Factories worked around the clock turning out munitions as the army tested their newest systems against a real enemy. Now, they are expecting their battle-tested products will win them new customers. Submitted by Judith Ferster, posted by Sam Bryan, AIME members