Held together by disdain for Netanyahu, the new government can’t escape its occupation of Palestinians.
Jo-Ann Mort
Jo-Ann Mort writes frequently about Israel and Palestine for The American Prospect and other publications. She is co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today’s Israel?. Follow @changecommnyc
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Disentangling from Israel
A conversation with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh
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Beyond the Gaza Coup
Is imprisoned Young Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti the last best hope for Palestinian nationalism?
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Guns Versus Butter in the Palestinian Authority
For Fatah and its allies to succeed in building a viable alternative to Hamas, they must provide food for the tables and a credible security command.
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The Year that Never Ended
1967 was the year that Israel, and the Mid-East, changed. As Tom Segev shows, the country still lives with the consequences, forty years later.
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American Jews and the Mideast
Attention, Democratic candidates: Most American Jews aren’t hardliners on Israel.
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The Man Behind the Mecca Agreement
The Palestinian unity agreement negotiated last week in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, comes with some big “ifs”: whether it will last more than a few news cycles, whether it puts a halt to the low-grade civil war between Hamas and Fatah, whether the international community — and Israel — recognize this new government, and whether they […]
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Trapped in the Iron Cage
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi (Beacon Press, 281 pages) Both a rapid-talking native New Yorker and the scion of an established Jerusalem Arab family, Rashid Khalidi is widely considered one of today’s preeminent historians of the Palestinians. In his important new book, The Iron […]
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In But Not of Israel
Five days into Israel’s war with Hezbollah, I visited the Umm El-Fahm Gallery in the town whose name it bore. Umm El-Fahm, the largest Muslim community in Israel, with a population of 43,000, anchors the largely Arab Triangle area on the coastal plain just south of Haifa. Outside the gallery, Israeli planes were bombing Lebanon […]
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Casualty of War
Zahi Khoury, a leading Palestinian businessman and chairman of the National Beverage Company, has two maps on a wall in his Ramallah office suite — one for Gaza and one for the West Bank, with markings showing 150 Israeli checkpoints and 800 roadblocks, according to his logistics adviser. The maps help Khoury’s staff figure out […]