Yitzhak Rabin never supported Palestinian statehood [English & Spanish]
For 20 years the Israeli Left has utilized selective memory to reinvent the late prime minister. In reality, Rabin only wanted to grant the Palestinians limited autonomy, a goal he achieved through the Oslo Accords.
by Yakir Adelman
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Casablanca, October 30, 1994. (GPO/Saar Yaakov)
Ahead of the 1992 elections in Israel there was a televised debate between Yitzhak Rabin and incumbent prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. At the end of the debate Shamir was allowed to ask his opponent a question of his choice: “Do you really want a Palestinian state within the land of Israel?” Rabin answered decisively: “I oppose a Palestinian state between us and the Jordan [river]. At the same time, I don’t not want 1.7 million Palestinians to become citizens of Israel.” Rabin added that he voted in favor of the “autonomy plan” that Menachem Begin proposed as prime minister in 1978.
El dilema de Caetano Veloso después de visitar Palestina
por Shajar Goldwaser.
Músicos brasileños Gil y Caetano conmemoram 50 años de carrera y amistad en Amsterdam. Sandro Fernandes/ Opera Mundi
Desde que fue publicado su texto en el diario Folha de São Paulo (ver carta abajo), Caetano Veloso ha recibido críticas de casi todos los lados. Los sionistas están irritados por el hecho de que no quiera volver más a Tel Aviv. Los activistas de la causa palestina no se conforman con su no adhesión completa al movimiento del boicot. En mi caso, veo en las dudas que Caetano planteó un debate esencial para entender la cuestión palestina. ¿Cómo es que Israel puede ser al mismo tiempo tan amado por unos y odiado por otros?
Yes, Jews are the victims – of Zionist propaganda
by Alan Hart
My headline takes me back 35 years to the day when I had a remarkably frank conversation in Tel Aviv with then retired Major-General Shlomo Gazit, the very best and the brightest of Israel’s directors of military intelligence.
I put to him my conclusion that “It’s all nonsense.” I meant and said that contrary to the assertions spewed out by its leaders, Israel’s existence had never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab and other Muslim military force and was never likely to be. Through a sad smile, Shlomo replied: “The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.”
Occupied words: On Israel's colonial narrative [English & Spanish]
by Susan Abulhawa
'We are facing our extinction and fighting for our lives against foreigners who continue to pour into our lands' [EPA]
The language of sociopolitical constructs is rarely a mere collection of words arranged to reflect reality. More often, it is the very infrastructure of thought, laid out in a way to facilitate, or preclude, specific ideas.
In the case of a settler colonial enterprise, the selection of words is highly deliberate and meant to construct a moral syntax to contextualise ethnic cleansing and settlement.
The Israeli colonisation of Palestine has followed time-tested colonial narratives, which first describe conquered lands as uninhabited frontiers for hardworking underdogs, replete with the romantic language of, for example, "making the desert bloom".
‘Most-read’ article at Washington Post calls Israel ‘savage, unrepairable society’
by Assaf Gavron .
The leftwing movement of criticism of Israel is getting more and more mainstream by the second. Everyone is walking the path; they’re just getting there a little later. The Washington Post, a hotbed of neoconservative ideas for the last 15 years, has another article harshly critical of Israel today, written by an Israeli. And guess what: that article along with yesterday’s article by the two prestige Jewish academics calling for boycott of Israel are the two “most-read” articles on the Post list this morning!
Why is Benjamin Netanyahu trying to whitewash Hitler? [English & Spanish]
by Ali Abunimah, Lobby Watch .
Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly asserted that Adolf Hitler had no intention of exterminating Europe’s Jews until a Palestinian persuaded him to do it.
The Israeli prime minister’s attempt to whitewash Hitler and lay the blame for the Holocaust at the door of Palestinians signals a major escalation of his incitement against and demonization of the people living under his country’s military and settler-colonial rule.
It also involves a good deal of Holocaust denial.
In a speech to the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Netanyahu asserted that Haj Amin al-Husseini convinced Hitler to carry out the killings of 6 million Jews.
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