Jeff Halper

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The Palestinian Authority’s historic mistake – and opportunity

by SR Editor June 20, 2011

Jeff Halper calls on Palestinian Authority leaders, foremost Mahmoud Abbas, to honour their historic national responsibility, mobilize the immense resources of Palestinian and world civil society and push for UN recognition of Palestinian independence in September “as the head of a national unity government with the support of the world’s peoples, Mandela-like” and thereby “decisively change the course of events forever”.

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Palestinians must urgently mobilize world civil society support for September’s UN recognition bid

by Stuart Littlewood June 5, 2011

Stuart Littlewood shares the concern of pro-Palestinian activists worldwide at the failure so far of the Palestinian Authority, including its lacklustre and PR-inept London “embassy”, to start mobilizing world public opinion for the planned bid this September for UN membership and recognition of Palestinian independence.

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Will the Palestinian Authority declare an independent state… or collapse?

by Stuart Littlewood December 3, 2010

Heaven knows how the average Palestinian must feel as a result of the incompetent leadership they have had to endure these last 63 years, a leadership which failed to coherently argue and convey the justice of the Palestinian cause and never bothered, even to this day, to formulate and put into action an effective communications plan to win freedom.

We are watching the sort of self-indulgent and ultimately self-destructive lunacy no-one in this day and age can afford, least of all the Palestinians. Who can blame sympathizers for throwing up their hands in exasperation, crying “Enough! A pox on you all,” and reaching for the “off” switch?

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One Wall, Two People, No States: the Peace Pretense

by William A. Cook October 12, 2010

If the future state of the Palestinians is a mirage, the present Israeli State mocks the definition of a nation State; a true state has jurisdiction over a given territory. The state of Israel refuses the demarcation of its borders and refuses to abide by the United Nations resolutions that demand it return the land it has illegally occupied to the people of Palestine. Given this defiance, the possibility of establishing “two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side” can be construed as nothing less than hypocrisy.

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The Palestinians: Warehousing A Surplus People

by Haitham Sabbah September 14, 2008

by Jeff Halper So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickly forgotten, the plight of more than 700,000 refugees becoming an [...]

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