Gideon Levy's Blog, page 8

Fear is driving Israelis to obtain foreign passports - Ha'aretz

[image error] Fear is driving Israelis to obtain foreign passports
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The numbers are climbing rapidly and the phenomenon is intriguing: Many Israelis are longing for a second passport. If Shimon Peres (now president ) once promised "a car for every worker," a second passport is now becoming the object of ...

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Netanyahu relegated himself to the footnotes history - Ha'aretz

[image error] Netanyahu relegated himself to the footnotes history
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The "speech of his life" must now quickly become the speech of Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu's political demise. The hour is pressing, there is no time and nothing is going to come of Netanyahu any more. Even the snake oil peddlers ...

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Netanyahu's speech to Congress shows America will buy anything - Ha'aretz

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[image error] Netanyahu's speech to Congress shows America will buy anything
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It was an address with no destination, filled with lies on top of lies and illusions heaped on illusions. Only rarely is a foreign head of state invited to speak before Congress. It's unlikely that any other has attempted to sell them ...

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Netanyahu has invited America to punish Israel - Ha'aretz

[image error] Netanyahu has invited America to punish Israel
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This is the crime and its punishment: Israel said an arrogant "no" to America, and America will neither forgive nor forget. We should be grateful to Obama. In his speech Friday night, he exposed the naked truth - that Prime Minister ...

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Obama Demolished Palestinian Chances for Statehood - Intifada Palestine

[image error] Obama Demolished Palestinian Chances for Statehood
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Pro-unity protesters today in Ramallah, the capital of the West Bank. Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images Benjamin Netanyahu may as well have canceled his trip to Washington: Barack Obama did the work for him, or most of it. ...

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Obama demolished Palestinian chances for statehood - Ha'aretz

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[image error] Obama demolished Palestinian chances for statehood
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Benjamin Netanyahu may as well have canceled his trip to Washington: Barack Obama did the work for him, or most of it. But the prime minister is already on his way, so he should at least send to the White House a big bouquet of flowers. ...

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For Mideast peace, Israel needs to own up to Palestinian pain - Ha'aretz

[image error] For Mideast peace, Israel needs to own up to Palestinian pain
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Look what a few hundred demonstrators can do in a day: 1948 is on the agenda. The breach of the fence in the Golan Heights was enough to breach a far older and more complex fence, bringing 1948 to center stage in the political discussion ...

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Meanwhile, in East Jerusalem - Ha'aretz

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[image error] Meanwhile, in East Jerusalem
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While demonstrators in the north and south were trying to cross fences and borders yesterday, I stood in the shadow cast by a tree that overlooks the Silwan neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The valley below me burned. ...

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Israeli Jews should mark Nakba Day, too - Ha'aretz

[image error] Israeli Jews should mark Nakba Day, too
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Were Israel a little more confident of the righteousness of its case, and were its government a little more open, then all schools in Israel, Jewish and Arab alike, would today mark Nakba Day. A few days after the celebrations of our own ...

Israel's dogs of war - Ha'aretz

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[image error] Israel's dogs of war
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The old man threw me a helpless look, collapsed and fell to the ground, losing consciousness for a moment. The young men around him rushed to give him water and then carried him to the van and left. He was a worker from distant Tul Karm, ...