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Israel and Palestine: A true one-state solution

by George Bisharat September 3, 2010

By George Bisharat* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” pundits occasionally ask. But after these latest Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington fail — as they inevitably will — the more pressing question may be: “Where is the Israeli de Klerk?” Will an Israeli leader emerge with the former South African president’s [...]

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Israel: Second-Class Citizens

by George Bisharat August 20, 2010

By George Bisharat And Nimer Sultany* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Should Israel be encouraged to enact legislation guaranteeing equal rights for all of its citizens as part of any peace agreement with the Palestinians? Israel’s systematic discrimination against Arabs was highlighted recently when Donna Shalala, University of Miami president and former Health and Human [...]

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Obama should back Goldstone report

by George Bisharat October 1, 2009

By George Bisharat* President Obama has placed restoration of the stature of the United States among his primary foreign policy goals. He has already achieved substantial progress in Europe, where polls indicate that he is widely admired. The president’s June Cairo University speech also won praise in the Arab and Muslim worlds. Yet many across [...]

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George Bisharat – Israel on Trial

by George Bisharat April 4, 2009

CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing, nationalist government in Israel suggests that there may be more violations to come. Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilians also constituted war crimes, but do not excuse Israel’s transgressions. While [...]

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Obama’s missteps

by George Bisharat June 18, 2008

George Bisharat Tuesday, June 17, 2008 On his first day as the presumptive Democratic candidate for president earlier this month, Barack Obama committed a serious foreign policy blunder. Reciting a litany of pro-Israeli positions at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he avowed: “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, [...]

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George Bisharat – The fallacy of Islamic ‘national suicide’

by George Bisharat June 10, 2008

Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat Written by George Bisharat A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim [...]

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George Bisharat – Palestinian Children without Textbooks

by George Bisharat September 21, 2007

A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East By George Bisharat Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there [...]

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George Bisharat – Boycott movement targets Israel

by George Bisharat August 16, 2007

George Bisharat Wednesday, August 15, 2007 When does a citizen-led boycott of a state become morally justified? That question is raised by an expanding academic, cultural and economic boycott of Israel. The movement joins churches, unions, professional societies and other groups based in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa. It has elicited dramatic [...]

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George Bisharat – Apartheid in Israel?

by George Bisharat January 5, 2007

by ~Psychomind-studio Is Israel an apartheid state? Here are two pieces to answer this question. One is from and American professor, another from ex Israeli Minister of Education: Truth at last, while breaking a U.S. taboo of criticizing Israel By George Bisharat Americans owe a debt to former President Jimmy Carter for speaking long hidden [...]

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