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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpagePalestinian rights activists must prove relevance
Palestinian rights groups must realize that they have limited international influence, but that Palestinians have...
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Published in: 50.50A fresh look: towards an Israel-Palestine two-state solution
A two-state solution is still possible in Israel and Palestine, but it will take a more aggressive strategy - one...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Israeli public and the Gaza war: supporting the armed effort, doubting the strategic outcome
Anti-Semitic acts in Europe reinforced the perception that the issue was extremist hatred of Jews per se. At the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGaza and the Palestinian struggle for statehood
Some believe that the negotiations for a truce could lead to peace talks that produce a two-state accord. Of course,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPhilip Gourevitch’s ‘honest voice’: problems with liberal Zionism
With the disappointment of metropolitan intellectuals who feel let down by the ungrateful natives, liberal Zionists...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaForget about taming or disarming Hamas: cut it a deal it can’t refuse
Reactions to the 2014 Gaza war in Europe and the US are more polarised than hitherto. A radical solution that places...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEnding religious and ethnic states will help prevent genocidal impulses
Political actors must address the place of religion and ethnicity, as defining identity markers, in the post-Arab...
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Published in: TransformationWe are all complicit in the bombardment of Gaza
"We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an innocent...
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Published in: TransformationRays of hope in Gaza: 13 Israeli and Palestinian groups building peace
The safety and security that every Palestinian and Israeli child deserve can only come about if all children's...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageIsraeli rights groups don’t have to be popular to be effective
Israeli human rights groups are under extreme pressure now from right-wing nationalists who view them as traitors to...
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Published in: openGlobalRights-openpageStrategic choices facing Israeli rights group during the current war
How should Israeli rights groups respond to this new war, and to the hatred many Jewish Israelis feel towards them...
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Published in: 50.50Gaza: The Jewish Right and the Muslim Right
The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous...
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Published in: openSecuritySyria and Gaza: a false equivalency
Though the indiscriminate violence in Syria and Gaza is becoming indistinguishable, unlike Syria, the west can take...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSome are more equal than others: responses to political violence
While it is true that the US has, for once, signed up to a UN Security Council statement which calls for an...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPeace and the Israeli right
It is dangerous to argue that the peace process is dead, but it cannot be revived while the Israeli right is in power.
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Published in: HomeIsrael vs Hamas, a war of surprises
The shock to Israel's system from the intense conflict in Gaza is profound.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe coming struggle over Palestine
We may now be moving towards a renewed conflict or struggle over the entire land of Palestine/Israel between various...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOperation Firm Cliff and another point of view
Pro-Palestinian articles complain about the lopsided score of casualties. There just don’t seem to be enough dead...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRejecting victimhood: the case for Palestinian resistance
Seeing rocket fire from Gaza as a counter-discourse. This method of resistance is less about fatalities than...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe security dilemma, the media and the Israeli bombardment
If you care about human life you should be appalled by what is happening in Gaza right now. But you should also be...