Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists

The ‘leftists’ only want to find favor in the eyes of the West, while the Arabs are only looking for honorific titles in the Knesset.

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Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists

Jews and Arabs in Israel live in two different worlds that rarely overlap. There are Arab towns and Jewish towns. There are also “mixed communities” that have both Arab and Jewish neighborhoods. In short, social apartheid.

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Sahron Olds || Sex Without Love

Sahron Olds || 

Sex Without Love

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
Gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked

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Terrorism's roots lie in literal Islam

Islam needs a revolution

Only a root canal of Islam’s ideas can move the Arab and Muslim world toward modernity.

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Terrorism's roots lie in literal Islam

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What’s missing is an Israeli party

Israel’s decent Jewish citizens should vote only for parties that publicly state that Arab MKs must be part of any future government coalition.

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What’s missing is an Israeli party

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Israeli Arabs, don't give the Jewish State your vote

The Jews' election

The Arab MKs merely serve as a fig leaf that covers Israel's systematic racism. Arab citizens, boycott the elections.

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Israeli Arabs, don't give the Jewish State your vote

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Turning Jerusalem into Tehran

 
The racist downpours that have fallen on Israel lately are only the first rains of a long winter of racism, one that will flood Israel for years to come. 

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Netanyahu is turning Jerusalem into the new Tehran

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Rights and responsibilities of Israel's Arab citizens

The Israeli Arab leadership’s positions on belonging to the state and its institutions are full of contradictions, and the time has come to resolve them.

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Rights and responsibilities of Israel's Arab citizens

Police clash with protesters in the Arab town of Kafr Kana, November 11, 2014. (Photo by Gil Eliyahu)

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B. Michael || The right to resist oppression and tyranny

 

Once upon a time, a time we knew better days, had loftier values, and even had more enlightened elected officials.

B. Michael || 

The right to resist oppression and tyranny

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Apartheid city

New Arab city will perpetuate inequality

We should oppose the construction of a new Arab city on principle. From here it’s a short distance to pushing Arab citizens out of so-called 'Jewish' cities.

Salman Masalha || Apartheid city

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The international occupation of Palestine

 The world is a partner:

The time has come to call a spade a spade: The occupation in Palestine isn’t just Israeli – it’s a Western occupation.

Salman Masalha || 
The international occupation of Palestine

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