Oslo II – Article 40, Water Management

In order to make it easier for the reader to access the sections of the Oslo Accords dealing with water management for Judea-Samaria, I have copy-pasted the relevant article (40) and the appendices (called “schedules” in the document) in this one post. My goal was to provide an easily accessed reference when engaged in debate […]

The Oslo Israeli-OCCUPATION Accords

Those who regard Israel as occupying the West Bank (Judea & Samaria) should reconsider the issue in view of the way they regard legally binding contracts. All countries have legal ages of majority, the age at which an individual can sign a legally binding contract. In the USA, for example, contracts can only be signed […]

Self-Assertiveness, Nationalism And Israel

Or: How did nationalism get such a bad rap? And: What’s a proud Israeli to do? People on the left side of the political spectrum talk about nationalism as if it is a dirty word, something to be discarded for global(homogen)ization. Israelis who support the two-state solution (TSS) argue that possession of rocks and buildings, […]

Ron Huldai Does Not Understand ‘Occupation’

Tel Aviv’s Mayor Ron Huldai made disparaging remarks concerning Israel’s part in causing the Arabs to kill us. Ilana Dayan interviewed Huldai after the terror attack at a Sarona restaurant that took the lives of 4 and injured over 10 others and Huldai used the air time to cause serious damage to the country I […]

Oslo II: What Did Peres and Abbas Expect?

This is my summary and critique of an article from 1996 that included reviews of two books (one by Peres and the other by Abbas) (citation below). I bring this here now because we can see that even at that early stage points were being drawn in the sand in what has become a trajectory […]