Israeli Jews

Photo above: Nasser Shyoukhi     Jewish settlers attack elderly Palestinian woman while Israeli troops stand around and do nothing. From Hebron
 
 

As Human Rights Watch warned, Israel’s recent actions – mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes – amounted to “collective punishment”, international law’s euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians.

 

 
 
Image above: Jewish men call on Pope Francis to stay in Rome, at a protest against his upcoming visit to Israel, Jordan, and Palestinian refugee camp.Photograph by: Ahmad Gharabli, Getty Images , The Associated Press

“Israeli society now acknowledges the Nakba. But there is much more to be done,” Jeries said. “Israeli Jews don’t yet want to take responsibility for it: to fix historical injustices and take back the refugees. It is going to be a long process.”

By Jonathan Cook 

Poll reveals that 47 per cent of respondents would like to see Israel’s Arab citizens stripped of their citizenship rights

 

“there are more than 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, including their rights to political participation, access to land, education, state budget resources, and criminal procedures.”

by PETER BELMONT
(Counterpunch) – The BDS movement (the movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli businesses and institutions) aims at ending the occupation, the settlements, Israeli discrimination against Palestinian Arabs, and Israel’s long-continuing exclusion from return to its territory of the Palestinians expelled and/or exiled by Israeli forces from that territory in the 1948 war.

by Alan Hart
A recent public opinion poll asked Americans which of two options they would favour if a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict was no longer on the table. (It is in the rhetoric of leaders and diplomats but not in reality). The two options were:
“The continuation of Israel’s Jewish majority (presumably this assumes permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank and continuing ethnic cleansing of it by stealth) even if it means that Palestinians will not have citizenship and full rights.”

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By Ira Chernus
 
As the media spotlight shines on U.S. negotiators talking with Iranians and Syrians, the Israeli-Palestinian talks have faded into the background. They’re still grinding on, slowly, with several contentious issues unresolved.

 
James Petras       Intifada Palestine
 
Introduction

Why the Prawer Plan Is Just a Continuation of the Nakba
Bedouins take part in a protest in the southern city of Beersheba REUTERS/Amir Cohen
by Yousef Munayyer
The Nakba is not a moment in time. The Nakba is an ongoing process.