Apartheid Is Israel’s “Desired Reality”
An interview with Haaretz journalist Amira Hass about occupation, the diaspora, and what comes next.
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Golda Meir Takes the Helm
Golda Meir (Meyerson) became prime minister of Israel on this date in 1969, after a lifetime in the Labor Zionist movement. Born in Kiev, she spent most of her childhood and teen years in Milwaukee — which helped equip her, in 1948, to raise $50 million, six times more than expected, from American Jews for […]
Read MoreFive Days in Palestine
by Dina Heisler and Susan Nobel PEOPLE around the world and across time crave similar things. They want the chance to raise their families within a peaceful and fair environment, one that affords a decent quality of life without fear of one’s fellow man. This was the main takeaway from our voyage into another world: […]
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: The Butterfly Effect in Lebanon
by Mitchell Abidor LEBANON is a land constantly tottering on the edge. Either it can’t choose a president, or it can’t have its capital’s garbage collected for months, or both. It is subject to the whims of its neighbors (like Syria or Iran) or even of nations at the other end of the Arab world […]
Read MoreThe UN Partition Plan, Seventy Years Later
by Bennett Muraskin The United Nations Partition Plan of November 29, 1947 would have established an Arab state in about 45 percent of the British Mandate, with 55 percent allotted to a Jewish state. The two states were to form an economic union, and Jerusalem was to be the capital of neither. but to be placed under UN control. I submit that the […]
Read MoreRadical or Liberal in 2017?
REGARDING FEMINISM AND LOTS MORE by Raina Lipsitz from the Autumn 2017 issue of Jewish Currents WHEN I WAS 17, I yearned for the “real” feminism of my mother’s era, the kind chronicled in Susan Brownmiller’s In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, which came out in 2000, during my senior year of high […]
Read MoreAbba Eban, “Voice of Israel”
Israel’s peerless diplomat, Abba Eban, the so-called “Voice of Israel,” died on this date in 2002. Born Aubrey Solomon in South Africa (1915) to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents, he served simultaneously as ambassador to both the United Nations and United States during Israel’s first decade of independence, and evoked great pride in Jews worldwide due to […]
Read MoreAfter 50 Years, Israel’s Occupation Seems Permanent
by Allan C. Brownfeld EVER SINCE 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As the world now marks 50 years of Israeli control of these territories — and its building of settlements housing approximately 700,000 people, in violation of international law — it appears that, to the current Israeli government, this occupation […]
Read MoreGolda’s Missed Opportunities for Peace
by Ralph Seliger AS WE commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Israel’s remarkable military victory in the Six Day War, June 5-10 of 1967, we note with a heavy heart that it also marks the beginning of Israel’s occupation over a non-Jewish population that neither welcomed nor accepts this situation. Still, Israel’s triumph over numerically superior […]
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: A Different Reflection of the Arab World
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: Broken Mirrors, by Elias Khoury, translated by Humphrey Davies, Archipelago, 2016, 500 pages, and In Praise of Defeat, by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Archipelago, 2017, 800 pages. OUR HYPOSTASIZED image of the Arab world is that of one rotted by Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. That it […]
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