two-state solution
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Americans are waking up to Israel’s brutal and discriminatory tactics By Jonathan Cook
Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them. Continue reading
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What Comes Next: A secular democratic state in historic Palestine – a promising land Omar Barghouti
The ongoing, tumultuous popular upheavals in the Arab world are ushering in a new phase that may break the rusty but still formidable imperial and neoliberal fetters that have consciously, systemically, and structurally inhibited human development in the entire Arab region. In addition to its anticipated emancipatory impact on peoples across this region, this process… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 August, 2011: The two-state solution will die in September
5 August , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinians hold non-violent anti-Wall protests in 4 villages IMEMC – Saturday August 06, 2011 – 03:10, Non-violent protests took place on Friday in the central West Bank villages of al-Nabi Saleh, Bil’in, and Nil’in in addition to al-Ma’ssara in the southern West Bank. Continue reading
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The Palestine Papers By Ali Abunimah: A dangerous shift on 1967 lines
One of the more astonishing revelations in The Palestine Papers — detailed records and minutes of the Middle East peace process leaked to Al Jazeera — is that the administration of US President Barack Obama effectively repudiated the Road Map, which has formed the basis of the “peace process” since 2003. In doing so it… Continue reading
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The Palestine papers By Matthew Weaver
Mustafa Barghouti, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the papers showed that the Israeli don’t want a two-state solution despite their support for it in public. He gave his reaction to my colleague Harriet Sherwood. Continue reading
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“Liberal Zionism,” by Miko Peled
Setting aside for a moment the argument of whether dividing historic Palestine into two states was ever a good idea, clearly forty years ago it was a viable solution. Today as liberal Zionist Jews and others call for this solution, it is a sad and pathetic sight. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 11 October, 2010: Israel’s ethnic cleansing drill a result of nationalists adopting the two-state solution
11 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Asad Slams Israel’s New Citizenship Law IMEMC – 11 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 12, 2010 – 01:41, Syrian President, Bashar Asad, strongly denounced on Monday the new Israeli citizenship law requiring all non-Jews in the country to pledge allegiance to Israel as a Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 September, 2010: Forget the old two-state solution: Tackling the hard stuff in Israeli-Palestinian negotiation
30 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Fires At Farmers, homes, In Rafah IMEMC – 30 Sep 2010 – Thursday September 30, 2010 – 22:49, Palestinian farmers stated Thursday evening that Israeli soldiers stationed near the border in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, fired rounds of Continue reading
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When will time run out for a two-state solution? By Yousef Munayyer
Time has been running out for a two-state solution since the beginning of Israel’s colonial enterprise in occupied Palestinian territory in 1967. Yet despite this reality, analyses of the situation continue to repeat this now-meaningless cliche year after year, decade after decade. It seems that, to many, time in the Middle East can be magically… Continue reading
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Load those questions! By Harry Feldman
As part of a Middle Eastern peace agreement, should Israel be required to stop building new settlements in occupied Palestinian territory?’. At least on the face of it, as I read it, the question assumes that the agreement will countenance continued occupation of ‘Palestinian territory’ the West Bank and East Jerusalem, since the occupation of… Continue reading
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The Biden vs. Netanyahu Flap by John Spritzler
The recent flap between America’s Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Israel’s building 1600 new Jews-only housing units in East Jerusalem is, at its root, a disagreement about whether or not Israel should take the “new path” advocated by Israel’s previous Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. Continue reading
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Netanyahu Chooses Warehousing By Jeff Halper
Although the Obama Administration may truly desire viable two-state solution and even understands all Israel’s tricks, it is also clear that without significant pressure it cannot be achieved. And here is where the real problem arises. Israel’s trump card has always been Congress, where it enjoys virtually unanimous bi-partisan support. And Obama’s own Democratic Party,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 