After Israel’s elections, reasons to cheer

Posted 1:14 pm March 24, 2015 In: News
Tags: anti-Arab racism, Ayman Odeh, BDS, Boycott Israel, Greater Israel, Hadash, Israel's elections, J-Street, Joint List, Middle East Peace Process, Netanyahu, Palestinian state, Palestinian vote, PLO, Security Council veto, Settlements, Us-Israel relations

After Israel’s elections, reasons to cheer

The return to power of the same regime with a stronger mandate should have set the status quo in stone. Instead, the election has created important shifts in the status quo. One of these shifts is, indeed, Barack Obama’s statement that “we can’t just in perpetuity maintain the status quo”. So what’s new? (more…)

One State issues of race, rights and democracy that led to Israel’s shock elections

Posted 8:11 pm December 15, 2014 In: News
Tags: Charter of Rights, Giedon Levy, Israel's elections, Jewish State Law, Netanyahu, One Democratic State in Palestine, Palestine

One State issues of race, rights and democracy that led to Israel’s shock elections

“This bill is legal preparation for the right wing’s one-state solution, the annexation of the territories and the establishment of the Jewish apartheid state. The bill is the constitutional foundation, and its acceptance is the laying of the cornerstone of the bi-national segregation state that the right wing is setting up quietly and methodically, unseen and unhindered” — Gideon Levy

Israel’s PM Bibi Netanyahu has broken up his ruling coalition after just two years, and forced a new election. The exciting news is that it might backfire and see his defeat. But what led up to this? (more…)

Bibi’s double bluff on Settlers

Posted 4:37 pm January 30, 2014 In: News
Tags: Hanan Ashrawi, Kerry's talks, Netanyahu, UN and Palestine, west bank settlements

What if settlements were left in place? Bibi’s bluff misfires and closes another door to 2-state deal

In the latest instalment of the neverending Kerry Talks saga, Netanyahu announced that settlers in any part of the West Bank that became part of a state of Palestine would have the choice to stay under Palestinian jurisdiction or to leave. (more…)