This is not an argument for one binational state. It is a bleak assessment by Mohamed Hassan of Turkey’s TRT World of the possibility of dividing the land between 2 states (none he thinks). It’s the policy of the West which has no will to deliver it.

Osnat Ita Skoblinski grew up in the hothouse atmosphere of Jewish self-righteousness and intrinsic Arab evil. Only when she met an actual Palestinian did she escape into reality. Now she works for B’Tselem.

Yachad, the J-Street-like pro-Israel pro-peace group, should be flattered. One ‘Adam Cohen’, an American claiming to be a Londoner, has spent energy, time money, on attacking it. We don’t know who or what is behind this but assume Yachad is the target because, to ‘Adam’, its position might seduce the middle ground.

It’s rare that Americans get the chance to hear Palestinian voices or evidence of Israeli cruelty to Palestinian children. They had a chance on June 8th when the video of a very sober panel discussion on the treatment of children was released. But just in case they watched it, says Peter Beinart, The Israel Project rushed out its own video and claimed the panel discussion was an “anti-Israel hatefest” and antisemitic. No wonder the Jewish establishment is so ill-informed.

There are many ways of depicting the dire state of Gaza. The rising suicide rate of young men in particular is one of the most telling. The rate of unemployment in the Gaza Strip is now the highest in the world.

The religious right peddles a mythology based on a falsehood – that it is they who pioneered settlements. In fact, the first settlement was set up by a leftist and then became the national policy of all governments, Labor as much as Likud, writes Gershom Gorenberg in American Prospect.

Summary of, and links to, this week’s postings on the JfJfP website

The question is asked by Amos Harel in one of his wonderfully sardonic monologues. The answer by most people accustomed to the services that make life comfortable would probably be to leave as quickly as possible. No chance.

This is the main section of a report by the NGO ‘The Reality of Aid’ on the effects of aid to Palestine and Israel . It argues convincingly that Aid does not reduce poverty – the purported aim – but is absorbed in such a predetermined highly militarised context that it further fragments Palestinians and reinforces Israel’s military control.

Avigdor Lieberman tells the Herzliya conference that no Palestinian refugee will ever be allowed to return to family land or home. The bombastic defence minister is in no position to make that promise. The right of return is fundamental to Palestinian political culture and has a role in his PM’s effort to forge an anti-Iran alliance with the Gulf states- none of which accepts refugees.

Because, say the ‘literary power couple’ Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon who edited Kingdom of Olives and Ash, so many want the occupation to remain their dirty little secret.

Im Tirtzu is the Israeli group whose MO is the denunciation of leftist persons and groups for their foreign funding. It refuses to say where its funds come from. Digging by Uri Blau reveals large donations from American groups, many of them Netanyahu-backers, especially the secretive ‘Shining City’.

That is, the Israeli gov’t maintains its hegemony by subduing Palestinians and stealing their land. No amount of US $$ is a good exchange for loss of the status quo. Four books reviewed by David Shulman

Political analyst Ian Lustick has named the “peace process industry” as the “fourth player” in a circuit of talks, conferences etc which produce nothing but more appearances for the personnel of the industry. Ben White names the names.

Israel’s anti-BDS minister Gilad Erdan met Communities secretary Sajid Javid in September 2016. Shortly after, David’s department issued ‘guidance’ that pro-BDS decisions by local government were not ‘appropriate’. A judge has now ruled that he was overstepping his brief.

Young students today – Jewish and non-Jewish – are schooled in the paradigm of racist oppressor and oppressed. For them Israel is clearly the oppressor and Palestinians clearly the victim. They will shape the future.

That’s an ironic headline. University staff and the IDF (the most moral army etc etc) have both got a code of ethics written by Prof. Asa Kasher. For the IDF, the code is a propaganda screen. For the academics the code would be a powerful weapon preventing critical and inquiring studies and BDS. Mondoweiss reports

Daniel Barenboim, the internationally renowned pianist, conductor and co-creator of the West-Eastern Divan orchestra has done more to defy sectarianism and promote dignity in young Palestinians than any of his contemporaries. John Reed on the position from which Barenboim decries Israelis’ loss of humanity.

Two Al Shabaka writers trace the history of the Palestinian cause from 1967 to today. Its peak was in 1974 when Arafat addressed the UN, the PLO was internationally recognised as the leader of the cause and the cause was led by a united leadership. Over 40 years later it seems much weaker with a divided leadership and no strategy for Palestinian liberation . Yet – popular support for Palestinian rights has never been higher and excess power has gone to Israel’s head, cocooning Israelis in delusions of eternal triumph.

Because of the siege it imposes, Israel is responsible for the welfare of the besieged. It is colluding with the PA by withholding power from Gaza. Many people and NGOs have spoken out against this cruelty: names in this 4-piece posting