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Bezalel Smotrich, Hashiloah, 2017 (Hebrew) “Insanity,” says a famous proverb commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, “is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” In the reality of our political life, insanity seems to have taken its place. The Israeli left repeatedly repeats “simple and safe” solutions to end the Israeli-Arab conflict, and […]

Ameer Makhoul reports in +972 August 15, 2022 Israeli police patrol on a boat during the annual crossing of the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilea, September 21, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90) On July 30, Israeli navy units pulled out the body of Palestinian citizen Raed Mahamid from the bottom of Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) at […]

Dahlia Scheindlin writes in +972, May 21, 2020 No country wants to accept the blood of the “others” it shed to be born. In 1945 — three years before Palestinians were scattered and exiled from their land — George Orwell wrote in his essay, “Notes on Nationalism,” that “There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot […]

Yossi Melman reports in Middle East Eye: From a strict security point of view, Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and practically all Arab governments share the same estimate that the Trump Middle East plan is bad and so dangerous that it could set the region in flames. Over the past week, Israeli security chiefs have […]

Gadha Karmi writes in the London Review of Books: ‘In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country … The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong … is of far profounder import than […]

Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz,Oct 17, 2019 Next week, after the Jewish holidays end, the trial of Mohammed El Halabi will resume in Be’er Sheva District Court. It’s either/or: Either El Halabi is one of Israel’s greatest and most dangerous enemies ever, as the indictment against him indicates – or he’s the victim of a […]

Hagar Shezaf writes in Haaretz, Jul 05, 2019: Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Vashitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam Party, in the Yad Yaari archive at Givat Haviva. The document, which seemed to describe events that took place during […]

Dareen Tatour writes in Mondoweiss: The anniversary of the Nakba comes every May. But we, the Palestinians of 1948, live in memory of the Nakba in different circumstances than all other Palestinians. Here from within Israel, we can hear the sirens declare the beginning of the celebration observed by those who occupied us while we […]

Israeli ministries boast of their country’s success as a ‘start-up nation’. This distracts attention from the fact that Israel lags far behind the modern world in its treatment of, in particular, the children of a minority population, viz, Palestinians. This is a report of the shocking arrest of a 16-year-old boy and the report by Human Rights Watch on Israel’s singular rejection of human rights.

Mohammed Amin, Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, discusses what Israeli Arabs gain and lose. He will be speaking at a panel discussion on Forgotten Israelis (see NIBS). Like Tony Klug, he says ‘Ultimately peace depends upon both sides understanding each other’s historical narratives.’