Now is the time for President
Joe Biden to speak out against apartheid in Israel and for the U.S. to no longer support state-sanctioned violence and repression against Palestinians.
Violence and civil unrest have broken out in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) waging airstrikes with U.S.-supplied bombs and flattening Palestinian high rise apartment buildings in Gaza and the Palestinian militant group Hamas launching rocket attacks. Dozens have been killed, mostly Palestinians, including children. This, as violence escalates in the streets, with Jewish supremacist lynchmobs in Proud Boys gear calling for “death to Arabs” and attacking Palestinians and Palestinian businesses with material support, and incitement from, the Israeli government.
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Yesterday Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians stood together around the country, Not in our name. We refuse to be enemies.
To my Muslim friends, كل عام وانتم بخير. فطر سعيد. تريت – Id Il Fitr Blessings. An early Khag Sameakh as we draw nearer to Sinai, and the Jewish Shavuot holiday
Sunday was “celebrated” in Israel as Jerusalem Day, and I have been intending to write about what I have seen in Sheikh Jarakh in recent days, the letter we have obtained from former US President Jimmy Carter voicing his concerns about the potential eviction of families from their homes, and the fact that there is no unified Jerusalem. However, it is impossible t
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There are people in this conflict who are just hateful on both sides. My point has been that underneath that surface which captures the headlines, lies the common people who prefer just to live not to hate. There was a
documentary film in Europe about an incredible story between one Palestinian family and the wrongful death of their son who was just 12 years old.
The story is about Ahmed who was just a small boy playing with two friends who had a toy gun when he was killed by an Israeli soldier who mistook the toy for a real weapon. His father, Dad Ismael Khatib, agreed to donate Ahmed’s organs. As if divine intervention from above took place, the body was divided into parts as if decreed by Salomon himself. One kidney went to a Bedouin boy, one to an Orthodox Jewish girl, and the heart to a Druse child.
Dominique Vidal, journalist for the
Monde diplomatique and historian, author of numerous books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, published with Leïla Shahid, general delegate of Palestine in France and Michel Warschawski,
Suburbs, Middle-East and us, prefaced by Isabelle Avran, vice-président of the Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS). His latest book was published with Bertrand Badie:
The State of the World 2021. The Middle East and the World, by La Découverte, Paris.
How can you explain this resurgence of violence when the Israeli government seems to swing to the left with the support of Biden’s administration opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu ?