John McDonnell MP slams UK government’s record on sanctioning Israeli settlers in the West Bank
‘What’s happening in the West Bank just as in Gaza are war crimes’
‘What’s happening in the West Bank just as in Gaza are war crimes’
The move could sound the death knell for hopes of a two-state solution. Pictured: A bridge connecting Israel with the West Bank.
Every year, between 500 and 700 children are being denied their fundamental human right to a fair trial in Israel.
Cameron’s speech demonstrates everything that’s wrong with international engagement with the Israel-Palestine peace process.
According to James’s Joyce’s character Leopold Blum, reading your own obituary gives you a new lease of life. Proponents of the two-state solution should perhaps then be grateful to those declaring it dead. As I argue in a new paper for the Foreign Policy Centre, the two-state solution is not dead, and in fact remains both attainable and indispensable.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most complex and difficult in modern history, with two competing narratives attempting to describe an extraordinary shared history. With polarisation on the issue endemic, there is limited space for moderates in the center to advocate a resolution that delivers justice for Palestinians, security for Israelis and peaceful co-existence for both.
The international community should disabuse those Palestinians promoting boycotts of the idea that they can avoid these compromises. By failing to take that stand against the boycott campaign, professor Hawking has done nothing for the cause of peace. If anything, by encouraging behaviour that entrenches the conflict, he has set it back.
Seph Brown reports on the “Al-Nakba” clashes between Israeli forces and protesters this week.
Maybe for Rabin, the date was always 1948 or 1967, and all it took was force of will for Israel to achieve whatever it wanted. To listen to Israeli leaders now, is to travel still further back in time. The date is always 1938, the place is always Munich, the enemy is always Hitler.