While Benny Gantz and Bibi Netanyahu are arguing over whether to immediately annex Area C to Israel, the Ministry of Health beat them to it and made a clear statement: “There will be no choice but to annex health care…
Tag: Palestine
A fantasy of partnership between two peoples
An exhibition by artist Noam Toran at Tel Aviv’s RawArt Gallery takes us back to Arab and Jewish rail workers in 1930s Haifa and imagines an alternative to the bloody conflict between the two peoples. Instead of death and hatred,…
It’s the Settlements, Stupid!
Jason Greenblatt is undoubtedly an intriguing personality. Beneath his black skullcap lies a shrewd real estate dealer who knows marketing and is skilled in identifying business opportunities. Greenblatt dons or doffs the skullcap according to the occasion. On March 19,…
The hot Palestinian summer
e can relax: the disturbances in the Occupied Territories appear to have subsided, and the would-be third Intifada may have skipped over 2012 as it did over 2011. Back then it was supposed to break out after Abu Mazen vainly…
Israel’s Nightmare Scenario
On Friday, September 23, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas—aka Abu Mazen—stood before the UN General Assembly and announced Palestine’s application for full status as a member state. In the light of the Arab Spring, which is a…
Laying the Groundwork for Change
A Review of Michael Riordon, Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine. Michael Riordon’s new book (published in Toronto by Pluto Press/Between the Lines, 2011, 242 pages) explores what a just peace between Israel and Palestine might look like…
Unconquered: Illegal Palestinian Workers in Israel
One day in 2005, Jonathan Ben Efrat of Video48 noticed Palestinian laborers waiting for jobs at a busy junction on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Stopping to talk, he learned that they were shabahim, illegal sojourners. To get around the checkpoints…
Bil’in: (Partial) Triumph in a Political Vacuum
While the Israeli Occupation hardens and the Fatah/Hamas split deepens, a remote little village near Ramallah has celebrated a victory. This is Bil’in. It went to the Israeli High Court and won a change in the route of the Separation…
Palestine in Suicide
JUNE 5, 2007 marked forty years of Israeli Occupation. Five days later Hamas began its conquest of Gaza, and on June 14, PA President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah formally dissolved the unity government. After forty years, Israel has finally succeeded…
Palestinian Quarry Workers Organize
THE SAL’IT QUARRY lies in the desert north of the West Bank settlement of Maaleh Adumim, a bedroom suburb of Jerusalem. Its workers have decided to break through the Fear Barrier and wage a struggle for their rights. There are…