Group Psychoanalysis For Israeli Jews And Palestinian Arabs — Part 1
Can theories of psychoanalysis help us understand the Israeli-“Palestinian” conflict? Can they offer us new ways to resolve the conflict? Psychotherapist Paul Solomon would answer in the affirmative. He recently published an article in the journal, Psychotherapy and Politics International. Entitled, “Israel/Palestine: Roadblocks to Negotiation,” it relates to the political cultures of Israel and the […]
Two State Solution Is Immoral, Racist And Inhumane To The Arabs
I wouldn’t wish the Two State Solution on my worst enemies. Yet that is what leftist organizations in Israel and abroad are doing – wishing the Two State Solution on our neighbours. They cry out for us to stop the “occupation”, arguing that the occupation is immoral and oppressive to the Arabs living in the […]
Why I Won’t Join An Israeli-“Palestinian” Peace Organization (Yet)
I wonder if, in order to be invited to take part in conjoint “Palestinian”-Israeli make-nice meetings, I have to stop writing “Palestinian” in quotation marks and I have to agree that Israel is “occupying” the so-called disputed lands. In other words, I need to accept their “narrative” and discard my history in order to be […]
Yalla – Zehava Galon For Prime Minister!
It is easy to look back and say that decisions taken right after the 6-Day War were ill-guided and started us down a slippery slope to disaster regardless of whether you are a hawk or a dove. It is easy to look back and say that Oslo was either a fumbled promising new beginning or […]