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https://972mag.com/partnership-arab-jewish-supremacy/144188/ We need to redefine Israeli politics. No more left and right, liberal or conservative, religious versus secular. Instead: a new partnership of Arabs and Jews, working side-by-side to combat Jewish supremacism….   Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://lobelog.com/changing-israels-behavior-will-require-much-more-than-tinkering-with-aid-and-loan-guarantees/   ...There have been several attempts to investigate whether Israeli units should be held liable under the Leahy Law, but they have routinely been rebuffed by the State Department, which is tasked with investigating them and reporting to Congress... Israel would not be the only country that would be deeply concerned if the United States decided to follow its own laws. Finding ways to bring these points into the policy debate should be a top priority for anyone who wants to find ways to pressure U.S. allies, including Israel, into changing their ways. ... Indeed, if we are ever to see a U.S. government that is truly willing to enforce human rights norms in its weapons sales, we are likely to see one that is already pulling back sharply on those sales, and is already using its other diplomatic tools to press for just...

10-25-2019 Israel Is Turning an Ancient Palestinian Village Into a National Park for Settlers Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Haaretz   https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-is-turning-an-ancient-palestinian-village-into-a-national-park-for-settlers-1.8023605     The unbelievable story of a village outside Jerusalem: from its destruction in 1948 to the ticket issued last week by a parks ranger to a descendant of its refugees, who had the gall to harvest the fruits of his labor on his own land Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://972mag.com/shamgar-supreme-court-israel-occupation/144097/ No one personifies the Zionist dissonance more than Meir Shamgar, the former president of the Supreme Court who died last week. He created the legal provisions for the protection of personal rights, while enshrining Israel's rule over the occupied territories. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://972mag.com/gun-violence-palestinians-israel-fida-tabony/144076/ | Published October 23, 2019 A wave of demonstrations against gun violence and police negligence has inspired a renewed sense of solidarity among Palestinian citizens of Israel, according to veteran activist Fida Tabony. After years of division, 'we're acting like a people,' she says. Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-rewarding-the-israeli-attackers-in-the-settlements-1.8013352 It's a system – violence carried out with the army's full backing and with the aim of expanding, on a daily basis, the area from which Palestinians are driven out Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/11/07/long-paralysis-israeli-left/   [Review of Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel , Dan Ephron; Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman , Itamar Rabinovich]   …Rabin's assassination was the starkest expression yet of the right's diktat to the Israeli mainstream: peace with your neighbors means war with your brothers. For more than two decades, Israeli advocates for peace and democracy have been paralyzed by this equation. The result is an asymmetrical culture war, with one side fighting tooth and nail while the other side—confused and intimidated—observes and repines. The taboo of fraternal war, which is rooted deep in the foundations of the Jewish state, has become the source of its undoing.   The new centrist party, Blue and White, performed impressively in both of the recent elections, winning the same number of seats as Neta...