Thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, about two thirds describe conditions today as worse than they were before that agreement; two thirds think it has damaged Palestinian national interests, three quarters think Israel does not implement it; and a majority supports abandoning it despite the fact that about half believes that abandoning it would lead to the collapse of the PA and the return of the Israeli Civil Administration

Lawyer Ilan Bombach argued that the ‘Declaration of Independence’ cannot serve as a constitutional basis — but what is the alternative? — By Noa Epstein • [Translated by Sol Salbe] The Declaration of Independence of the current Israeli government Nir Hasson and Ran Shimoni reported this morning that the project to establish a museum that will display the Declaration of Independence has been held up after the Prime Minister’s Office and the…

Dictatorial regime of Jewish supremacy, a messianic worldview, and Apartheid: The time has come to update the definition of Judo-Nazism — By Rogel Alpher • [Translated by Sol Salbe] [Protest movement leader Dr] Shikma Bressler has now chimed in in a glorious tradition of the Israeli public discourse: calling your ideological enemies Nazis, and then expressing remorse. “It is forbidden to talk to Nazis, whether they are Jews or non-Jews,” she…

Not only will we all depend on electricity from the settlements, so will the Palestinians… — By Neta Ahituv • [Translated by Sol Salbe] Settlement Environmentalism In January of this year, when the current government’s coalition agreements were published, they included a surprising clause according to which the government would act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent. An impressive target by all accounts. I don’t…

By Alaa Lahlouh • Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) Critical Policy Brief, Number 4/2023 • August 2023 [Excerpt only. Read full paper here] Public opinion polls show that a majority of 54% of the public in the West Bank expects an armed intifada to erupt soon, while…

The Nakba was and still is the truth that must never be referred to explicitly. That would be bad PR vis-à-vis the enlightened world. Expulsion and ethnic cleansing don’t sound good. Certainly when they are attributed to a people which has devoted more than any other people to the study of the Holocaust. ■ There can be no doubt that the Kahanist vision is a second Nakba. Without recognising the first Nakba and explicitly repudiating it, liberal Israel will lose. Because it is lying to itself.

The IDF is the smashed statue. We are witnessing a historic moment. And it is very rare for a shattered statue to be rebuilt — By Rogel Alpher • [Translated by Sol Salbe] The agitated public polemic over the harsh comments hurled by right-wingers at the IDF chief of staff and generals is jolting Israeli society because this is a religious crisis. And religion is everything: from the foundations to the rafter of society it’s…

Until about a decade ago, I had been opposed to the use of the term genocide in the Palestinian-Israeli context. But now, it’s time to ring the alarm bells — By Tamir Sorek • [Translated by Sol Salbe] In the current Israeli government, there are people who strive to push the country into an apocalyptic scenario that will make it possible to reproduce the Book of Joshua in the 21st century. The brigade commanders in the West Bank grew up…

The narratives in the Israeli media on this issue are no different from those representatives of Jewish terrorism in the Israeli government. For both of them, there is no such thing as Jewish terrorism, only pastoral depictions of “hilltop youths” caught up in “friction events” in which Palestinians sought and found their deaths. Not terrorists, murder and terror. These are things that Jews don’t do.