A little game I played after Kamala Harris said something about the two-state-solution
In contrast with many videoclips shared in the virtual space showing presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris in the worst possible light, she does come across as presidential in the under six-minute speech she gave after having met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I take issue with some of the content in her speech, but I […]
Will the Real Palestinian Please Stand Up!
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: ‘Yids, go back to Palestine,’ so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: ‘Yids, get out of Palestine.’ Thus wrote Amos Oz (a renowned left-leaning author) in his book, A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004). So […]
Healing from Collective Trauma – Identifying The Real Nakba
When the dust settles and a recently invented Palestinian people will have their own state (or not – but we will assume for the moment that such a state will arise), how will they heal from their collective trauma? When they will be free to evaluate what really happened to them, will they re-define their […]
Bellerose: Indigenous Rights – Learning the Basics
From Ryan Bellerose’s article: If conquerors can become indigenous, then the white Europeans who came to my indigenous lands in North America could now claim to be indigenous. The white Europeans who went to Australia and New Zealand could now claim to be indigenous. If we, even once, allow that argument to be made, indigenous […]
While Eyes Are On Syria, Abbas Wants to Cancel Oslo
Looks like Abbas is scrambling, looking for a way to hang onto the little he has. Apparently, the threatened cancellation of the Oslo Accords is a step toward unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. If, in summer 2014, Egypt considered giving up part of the Sinai to build a large and sustainable Palestine contiguous with Gaza, […]