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The three-state solution
We are complicit in the apartheid and occupation imposed on the Palestinian people. By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | May 20, 2018 The thing Trump loves best is attention. Perhaps for that reason it has become easy for … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel-Gaza Conflict, Jim Simons, Middle East, Palestinian Occupation, Rag Bloggers
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Read the small print…
Nearly 200 members of Congress could’ve signed on to a bill criminalizing free speech and legitimizing Israel’s occupation of Palestine. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | July 27, 2017 Democratic legislators have been busy lately fighting efforts by … Continue reading
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Tagged AIPAC, First Amendment, Israeli Boycott, Marilyn Katz, Palestinian Occupation, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Congress
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Silent rabbis
Arthur Hertzberg believed that the quasi-religious reverence for Israel, right or wrong, tainted the beauty and grandeur of Judaism. By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | October 21, 2014 One of the smartest, most courageous and provocative rabbis I … Continue reading
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It’s time to speak out for Gaza
Why have American politicians and editorial boards been silent in the face of extreme violence? By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | September 3, 2014 The latest seven-week war in Gaza is over. More than 2,000 people are dead … Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s Gaza game plan
Armed conflict will only lead to mounting numbers of dead on both sides. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | July 25, 2014 Unlike the finite death toll in the Malaysian jet downing, the numbers of dead in Gaza … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamas, Israel-Gaza Conflict, Israeli Society, Marilyn Katz, Middle East History, Palestinian Occupation, Rag Bloggers, Terrorism, Zionism
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Sipping lattes on the edge of a Volcano
What do Palestinians, human rights workers, progressive Israelis, and Israeli settlers have to say about daily life in an occupied land? By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | April 29, 2014 Part two of two. The international news coverage … Continue reading
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Two decades after Oslo, a look at life in Israel and Palestine
While in the Middle East last October, I saw firsthand why ending occupation is so necessary — and why it will be so difficult. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2014 Part one of two. With … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel, Israeli Settlements, Jerusalem, Katz Palestine Series, Marilyn Katz, Middle East, Palestinian Occupation, Rag Bloggers, Rawabi, Tel Aviv, Travel
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Israel, Hillel, and Idolatry
Harvard Hillel banned a speech by former Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg. The spiritual issue: Israel, Hillel, and idolatry The Hillel International prohibitions make the State of Israel, and indeed only one version of it, into an idol. By Rabbi … Continue reading
Robert Jensen : Peace Talks Are New Chapter in an Old Book
Peace talks: the players. Image from AP Graphics Bank. Peace talks:A new chapter in an old book Discussions about the issue, whether among citizens or by officials at the negotiating table, must begin with an acknowledgement of the power wielded … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Israel, John Kerry, Middle East, Palestinian Occupation, Patriarchy, Robert Jensen, U.S. Imperialism
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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : American Jewish Poet Hilton Obenzinger on Israel, Zionism, and the Radical Sixties
Hilton Obenzinger with family photo. Photo courtesy of Stanford University. Interview with Hilton Obenzinger: Stanford professor, Sixties radical, and anti-Zionist American Jewish poet “American Jews have been suckered into supporting Israel in unthinking ways. This has been changing, but not … Continue reading
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Tagged Hilton Obenzinger, Interview, Israel, Jonah Raskin, Judaism, Palestinian Occupation, Poets, Sixties, Stanford University, Zionism
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David McReynolds : After the Truce in Gaza
Political cartoon by Paul Jamiol / Jamiol’s World / Informed Comment.EdgeLeft:After the truce in Gaza This was not only a victory for Hamas, but also for Israel, which achieved at one stroke a deep division between the two sides of … Continue reading
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Tagged David McReynolds, Gaza, Gaza Truce, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Palestinian Occupation, Peace Movement
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VERSE / Margery Parsons : Surfing in Gaza
Surfer in Gaza. Image from Common Dreams.Surfing in Gaza The children of Gazapacked in campslike anchovies in tingo down to the beachto swim, and to surf.There is nothing timid about the way they take the waveson their boardshome-made with scraps … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza Blockade, Gaza Strip, Margery Parsons, Palestinian Occupation, Poetry, Surfing
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