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Dec

24

2010

A Provocative Blueprint for Peace in the Mideast | Books | AlterNet

Author Ilan Pappé recounts the growing support of introducing a one-state solution into the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from his book with Noam Chomsky.

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Nov

12

2010

ei: Review: "Gaza in Crisis" leaves readers wanting more

The new book Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians will surely attract the attention of Palestine solidarity activists because of the implied promise of a collaboration between its prominent co-authors, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé, and because of its highly topical focus on Gaza. Unfortunately, readers will likely be disappointed.

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The slim, 200-page volume is actually a collection of disparate essays written by either Pappé or Chomsky; the only evidence of interaction between the two is in the introduction and Chapter 6, "The Ghettoization of Palestine." Both were written as an interview with the two authors by Frank Barat, a London-based activist. However, even in these chapters, Chomsky and Pappé merely share their independent opinions, leaving readers hungering for an actual give and take.
One highlight, however, is Chapter 2: "Clusters of History: US Involvement in the Palestine Question." In this chapter, Pappé analyzes the US-Israel relationship and instead of pointing only at the powerful Israel lobby, he includes factors such as the emergence of Christian Zionism, the decline of influence of "Arabists" in the State Department, US geopolitical interests in the region and the institutionalization of the never-ending "peace process."
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- Chomsky claims the time is not yet "ripe" and thus BDS simply won't be effective. In the case of South Africa, he says, there was widespread condemnation of apartheid even in the mainstream media and among corporations. In the case of Israel, however, Chomsky warns that the "preparatory educational and organizing work has scarcely been done." Yet he fails to acknowledge both the potential of BDS to educate and build that momentum -- especially considering its successes over the past year. Papée, however, sees BDS as "the only nonviolent strategy open for Palestinians at this stage."
- Pappé and Chomsky join the increasingly mainstream consensus deriding the notion that a truly viable, independent Palestinian state is actually possible. "The 'facts on the ground,'" writes Pappé, "have rendered a two-state solution impossible a long time ago." He adds that "There was never and will never be Israeli consent to a Palestinian state apart from a stateless state within two Bantustans in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel controls indirectly through proxies such as a collaborationist Palestinian Authority."
- Chomsky advocates a binational state, with two fairly distinct societies living side by side, governed by autonomous systems. However, no reasoning is offered as to why Israelis -- if the decision is going to be left up to them -- would accept this alternative. After all, it would still require Palestinians and Israelis living side by side in equality.
- In contrast, Pappé advocates a "back-door" approach to lobbying for one country. The movement should focus its energies on "unmasking the paradigm of parity" -- the common belief that the wrongs that must be redressed began in 1967 rather than 1948. In other words, once the discussion is changed from an exclusive focus on the occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip, to the expulsion from historic Palestine in 1948, the concept of one state will become a natural progression.
- Meanwhile, to help lay the groundwork for a one-state movement that is "potent, popular and political," says Pappé, several projects should be taken on: a survey of attitudes toward the idea; a campaign to educate key stakeholders on the option; work teams to begin proposing a possible constitution, educational system, etc.; guidelines for an economic system; and citizenship laws.

Nov

6

2010

RAFFOUL: New history or a new mirage

"A recent reading of an old article written by the late Edward Said, the well-known Palestinian author, writer and cultural critic, revealed a rare meeting in Paris to discuss the core issues of the Palestine/Israel conflict."

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the Zionist project of occupying and holding on to all of historic Palestine was, is and continues to be the prime and sole objective of the Zionist leadership in Israel.
It is clear to the informed reader and observer of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that nothing will move on any future process to achieve a just and lasting peace in historic Palestine unless the 1948 Nakba, the Return of the Palestinian Refugees and rule of International Law have been embraced and made the basis for the next peace process.
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- it is also clear that the Zionist leaders occupying the Israeli Knesset have now become aware that their colonial juggernaut is running out of fuel. So, in order to pump more colonial life into it, they have come up with the racist “Oath to the Jewish Nation”. Its twin tank has been filled with the illegal call to punish all those who commemorate the 1948 Nakba.

Jun

8

2010

Ilan Pappé: The deadly closing of the Israeli mind - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

"At the top of Israel's political and military systems stand two men, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, who are behind the brutal attack on the Gaza flotilla that shocked the world but that seemed to be hailed as a pure act of self-defence by the Israeli public. "

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At one time, Ehud Barak was Benjamin Netanyahu's commanding officer in the Israeli equivalent of the SAS. More precisely, they served in a similar unit to the one sent to assault the Turkish ship last week.

Mar

13

2010

Opposing Apartheid: Palestine and the Experience of South Africa - with Ilan Pappe and Ronnie Kasrils

Israeli historian Professor Ilan Pappe and South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former government minister Ronnie Kasrils spoke on Wednesday 10 March 2010 in the Houses of Parliament on the subject of opposing apartheid. Drawing comparisons between the oppressive nature of the former South African apartheid regime and the current Israeli government they highlighted the way forward for Palestine.

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Zionism is a very successful project of deception." Deception can be challenged even if the occupation cannot.

Simply by looking at the title of one of his books, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, you can see why so many close-minded members of Israeli society made it their mission to make life so intolerable for the brave and outspoken academic Professor Ilan Pappe. So successful were they that he was forced to leave Israel, the land of his birth. Following repeated death threats and calls for him to be sacked he came to live in Britain.
The deception that Israel uses to cover up its crimes must be addressed because it can have very serious ramifications. For example, the UN fact-finding mission that produced the Goldstone Report was not the first Commission to investigate Israel for war crimes. The McBride Commission took place after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and came to the conclusion that Israel had committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity. However, Prof. Pappe declared, "the McBride Report was buried".
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- Parallels between Israeli and South African Apartheid Colonialism and the dispossession of the indigenous people.
  
  Ronnie Kasrils began on an optimistic note by saying that Jews and Israelis, such as Ilan Pappe, are following in the footsteps of the small group of white South Africans who stood up for fairness and justice during the darkest days of the South African apartheid era. They may have been vilified at the time but later, when justice won out, they were praised; and similarly, he told Prof. Pappe, when justice wins out in the case of Palestine, your compatriots will take their hats off to you for speaking out against the Israeli regime.
- "Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state." It was uttered by Dr Hendrick Verwoerd, the South African Prime Minister in the 1960s and the architect of apartheid. Verwoerd was able to make that comparison even as far back as 1961 because he could see the similarity, even then, of the ethnic, right-wing, nationalistic nature of both states. He also understood that both states are about "exclusivity" in the sense that they "exclude" the indigenous people.