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Posts Tagged ‘political vocabulary’

When Netanyahu Invalidated Camp David and Wadi Araba

By Guest Post • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Ahmad Barqawi
 
“The simple truth is that the root of the conflict has been and remains – the refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish People to its own state on its historical homeland”. Never have I heard the entire Arab-Israeli conflict summed up so concisely yet so deceptively.
 
Of course those were the [...]



Saree Makdisi – The language that absolves Israel

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 19th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

A special political vocabulary prevents us from being able to recognize what's going on in the Middle East. 

On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow to the quest for [...]