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The Jewish Nation State Demand Another Pipe Dream

 
by URI AVNERY
Netanyahu demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People just another trick to sabotage the “peace process”
WHAT’S WRONG about the demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People”?
Well, practically everything.
States recognize each other. They don’t have to recognize each other’s ideological character.

Another Pipe Dream

What’s wrong about the demand that the Palestinian leadership recognize Israel as the “Nation State of the Jewish People”?
Well, practically everything.
States recognize each other. They don’t have to recognize each other’s ideological character.
A state is a reality. Ideologies belong to the abstract realm.
When the United States recognized the Soviet Union in 1933, it recognized the state. It did not recognize its communist nature.

Netanyahu Is Israel’s Ted Cruz

Netanyahu Is Israel’s Ted Cruz

MJ Rosenberg
Last Saturday marked the 18th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On November 22, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Both assassinations were tragedies that altered their respective countries in profound ways.
But there is one giant difference.

Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations

Quo vadis, Palestine? … as PLO prepares to get bogged down (again) in bogus US-Israel negotiations

 
 by Stuart Littlewood  – Intifada Palestine
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing. It asks “WHAT IS NEEDED FOR THE RESUMPTION OF CREDIBLE NEGOTIATIONS?” and tries to explain the Palestinian position.