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http://972mag.com/we-will-overcome-arson-mourning-at-jerusalems-bilingual-school/99428/ The mixed Jewish-Arab school has been the target of racist attacks in the past, but for the parents, students and teachers of the 'Hand in Hand' school, this feels different. 'This time, the fire was ignited inside our home.'... Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

11-26-2014 Nationalism vs. Imagination: Beinart   vs. Vilkomerson square off on two-state solution   - Phillip Weiss Mondowiess   http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/nationalism-imagination-vilkomerson?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=4cc24477e4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-4cc24477e4-398495333   Only one session has been put online, a plenary from October 12 on How to Solve the Conflict in a just manner. The excitement in this session was the direct disagreement between liberal Zionist Peter Beinart and Jewish Voice for Peace head Rebecca Vilkomerson over one state or two. I have not seen such a vigorous debate between a liberal Zionist and a non-Zionist in a public forum in some time. (This is what Jewish discussion was supposed to be about!) Below are excerpts of that debate…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

  http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/israeli-occupation-jerusalem?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=4cc24477e4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-4cc24477e4-398495333   Relations between Israelis and Palestinians have descended into a dangerous melee of tit-for-tat attacks and killings, with the violence of the past few weeks centred on Jerusalem. The city, claimed by Israel as its "undivided capital", has been torn apart by clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian residents since the summer, when 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir was burnt alive by Jewish extremists. Subsequent attacks by Palestinians culminated last week in a shooting and stabbing spree by two cousins at a synagogue that killed four Jews and an Israeli policeman. In this atmosphere, both sides have warned that the political conflict is mutating into a religious one. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, cautioned that Israel's inte...

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/justiceformikebrown-ferguson-palestine?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=4cc24477e4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-4cc24477e4-398495333 Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush posted a photo of Palestinian photo-journalist Hamde Abu Rahma  on his Instagram page 2 days ago. Abu Rahma held a sign reading "The Palestinian people know what mean to be shot while unarmed because of your ethnicity #Ferguson #Justice." Reggie Bush wrote : No matter who you are, what color skin you have, where you live, we are all in this together! this isn't a Ferguson problem it's a Global Problem! We need change NOW! What happened to humanity? #JusticeForMikeBrown TMZ picked it up and it's going viral… Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

11-17-2014 This is not yet an intifada, Palestinians say - Philip Weiss Mondoweiss http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/netanyahus-intifada?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=3819b326ea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-3819b326ea-398495333 There is not yet a third intifada, Palestinians in East Jerusalem say. But there could be an organized uprising if Jewish zealots' incitements about the Al Aqsa mosque continue. In interviews, these Palestinians say that Israel's escalation of violence in East Jerusalem has isolated and terrified neighborhoods. "There is no security. You are afraid economically, politically, and physically." And the individual acts of violence by maddened Palestinians who feel they have nothing to lose reflects the universal demand for human dignity…   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/israels-illegal-settlements?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=3819b326ea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-3819b326ea-398495333 The Israeli government's recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psakicalling the settlement activity "illegitimate" and "incompatible with the pursuit of peace." But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX "seeing green," ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes. Among the 90 countries with RE/MAX franchises is in Israel. Since its entry into the Israeli market in 1995, RE/MAX has become the largest network of real estate agencies in Israel, boasting 100 branches and over 900 real estate agents in this small country roughly the size of New Jers...

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/destroys-bedouin-village?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=a61c088177-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-a61c088177-398495333 World Bulletin reported that Israeli forces on Monday razed the Bedouin village of Al-Araqib in Negev Desert for the 78th time on the pretext that it had been built illegally, eyewitness said. Local resident told Andalou agency that "Dozens of Israeli forces backed by five bulldozers stormed the village at dawn today and began demolishing homes and other structures, the soldiers were heavily armed. They drove us out under the rain before they demolished our homes for 78th time in four years." The village was demolished for the first time in July 2010, before being rebuilt with metal and wood. The Israeli government classifies approximately 40 villages in the Negev Desert as "unrecognized," arguing that the roughly 53,000 Palestinian Bedouins living ...