Deal of the Century: Changing the Language If Not Much Else
If Trump’s Deal of the Century had any binding enforcement capabilities, it would be an incredible coup for Israel. If the deal is merely a new starting point for negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, it is more of the same of what we have already seen for the past 70 years. With one […]
Group Psychoanalysis for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs — Part 3
In his recently published article, psychotherapist Paul Solomon showed that the irredentist Palestinian Arabs are engaging in a Holy War to oust the Jews from Israel and how the Jews are paranoid for thinking that the Arabs want them gone and intransigent for not making conciliatory moves for peace. Then he moves on to discuss […]
Group Psychoanalysis for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs — Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I critiqued the conclusion of a recently published paper by psychotherapist Paul Solomon. He discusses how group psychoanalysis can help us understand the itchy persistence of the conflict between Israeli Jews and those Arabs-who-now-like-to-call-themselves-Palestinians. . . . And how to resolve it! Let us now go to the beginning […]
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 […]
Negotiated Deals: How To Write One You Can Trust
Two recent observations made it very clear that negotiated accords are often only a temporary measure, easily reversed when a new regime comes to town: President Trump set about to cancel the Iran Deal as soon as entering office, and sections of the National Salvation Front’s Roadmap for Syrian-Israeli peace call for scrapping all Syrian […]