Peace for  Israel and Palestine

Haaretz 03.06.2009:Shulamit Aloni / Israel is controlled by religious fanaticism
Netanyahu and Lieberman are eradicating everything we dreamed about and fought for

Uri Avnery 30.05.2009: “Racist for Democracy”

Haaretz 27.05.2009:Knesset okays initial bill to outlaw denial of 'Jewish state'

Haaretz 19.12.2008: War of independence  Arab residents of Umm al-Fahm want to remain a part of Israel

Haaretz 16.12.2008: Legalize them  Israeli Bedouin citizens mustn't be viewed as 'invisible'.

Haaretz 11.12.2008: Livni: Israeli Arabs should move to Palestine once state created

YnetNews 26.11.2008:Experts: Failure to integrate Arabs costing Israel billions

Haaretz 18.04.2008: Through the Palestinian looking-glass, Esther Zandberg
The color photograph shows Hadara Hassan Agbaria and her husband, Ahmad Khalil Agbaria, at their home in the Wadi Ara village of Musharrafieh. They are wearing traditional garb, their hands are interlocked and they are looking straight at the camera of Shai Aloni, a member of Kibbutz Geva. Aloni captured these members of "the stooped generation" standing upright and looking festive.

Haaretz 31.03.2008: Educated Arab Israelis unlikely to find jobs, Yoav Stern
...The level of education among the Arab public is 20 years behind the rest of Israel, and is roughly on the same level as Jews enjoyed in the 1980s....
...Unemployed college graduates like Shalata, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics, make up 12.5 percent of all Arab college graduates. The figure on the Jewish side in only 3.5 percent. Women fare slightly better....

Haaretz 31.03.2008: Israeli Arab leader on Land Day: We'll fight Israel's 'rising fascism', Yoav Stern

Haaretz 31.03.2008: The land speaks Arabic' / A public near its breaking point, Yoav Stern

Haaretz 20.02.2008: An Arab city in the Galilee would mean a less green Israel.  (Nehemia Shtrasler)
Last Tuesday should have been a day of mourning for those who love nature and the environment.
But for some reason, it passed quietly. On that day, two decisions were made. One was widely publicized:
to establish a new Arab city in the Galilee. The second passed easily, with no media fanfare:
to establish a new town in the eastern part of the Lachish region.
The first decision was unnecessary. It came after Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit visited Umm al-Fahm.
In his eagerness to please the residents, Sheetrit announced he had ordered his ministry's staff to examine
establishing a new Arab city in the Galilee.
Given our reality (a declared policy of "Judaizing the Galilee" and ministers who are replaced every two to three years),
it seems we will have peace with the Palestinians before a new Arab city arises. Nevertheless,
it is worth examining the matter in principle. ...

Haaretz 16.02.2008: The first Arab city

Haaretz 02.02.2008: Israeli Arabs protest AG decision on killings during Oct. 2000 riots

Haaretz 01.02.2008: Arab women - the most exploited group in Israeli workforce

Haaretz 8.12.2007: Civil rights group: Israel has reached new heights of racism
 Report shows 26% rise in anti-Arab racist incidents; 74% of Jewish youths call Arabs 'unclean.' 

Haaretz 15.11.2007: Democracy first Israel needs to be a sovereign state, not a Jewish one
Still a democracy? _{Shulamit Aloni}
The government of Israel, with all due respect, does not represent the Jewish people but rather the citizens of the State of Israel who elected it. Israel is a sovereign state, which is still considered to be a democracy. In other words, it is a state for all of its citizens. Therefore it must not demand of the Palestinians to recognize it as a Jewish state, because in that way it would be declaring that any citizen whose mother is not Jewish or who did not convert with our strict Orthodox rabbis is a second-rate citizen, and his rights as a human being and a citizen are not ensured.
The Jews are a people but not a nation, they are a religious ethnic group or as respected a tribe as may be. The Jewish citizens of Britain, including the Orthodox among them, are British, and that is what is written in their passports and in the British population registry....

Haaretz 14.11.2007:Editorial: For equality's sake, Arabs should be 'Israelized'
Opposition to young Arabs volunteering for national service unfortunately unites all Arab MKs. An Arab rap group has composed a song protesting the possibility, rallies have been held, signs have been posted, and MK Jamal Zahalka has said he will consider anyone who volunteers a "leper." One can understand the refusal to cooperate with an establishment that has discriminated against Arabs since the inception of the state. But those who sincerely want to promote equality between Jewish and Arab citizens cannot support such an isolationist attitude

Haaretz Correspondent15/05/2007
New Israeli Arab declaration: Israel must own up to Nakba
By Yoav Stern, A group of Israeli Arab intellectuals are calling on Israel to recognize its responsibility for the Nakba
("The Catastrophe," the Palestinians' term for what happened to them after 1948) and to act to implement the Palestinian
 refugees' right of return and establishment of a Palestinian state.
These moves will pave the way to a historic reconciliation between the Jewish nation in Israel and the Palestinian people,
says a position paper entitled "The Haifa Declaration" published in Haaretz for the first time on Tuesday. The composers urge
Israel to become a democratic state that upholds "national equality" between Jews and Arabs. ...
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/859557.html

Shalom, Shin Bet (Uri Avnery 7.4.07)

Israeli Arab group proposes new 'multi-cultural' constitution (Haaretz 28/02/2007)

The Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education February 24, 2007.
Interview with Khaled Kasab Mahameed, Holocaust Institute, Nazareth

www.anis-online.de/1/orient-online/Alkaritha.htm
The Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education in Nazareth is directed by advocate Khaled Kasab Mahameed.
 I met him on the internet and found some stimulating suggestions. German politicians should go to the refugee camps with pictures
and texts and explain the genocide of the Jews to the Palestinians, Mahameed says, this is more meaningful than sending submarines to Israel.
 While hosting international visitors and responding to media requests he found the time for this extensive dialog which is presented here
trilingually in five questions and answers plus six photos. Interview and translation from Arabic by Anis, 

aaretz December 20, 2006 
Arabs in north get 10% of budget for rebuilding region
A new report released on Wednesday accuses the government of allocating Arab communities only 10 percent -
instead of the 30 percent pledged - of the budgets for rebuilding Israel's north in the wake of the war in Lebanon.
The Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel said that out of a total of NIS 4.25 billion only
NIS 400 million had been allocated to the Arab sector. Mossawa based its report on data collected from official government decisions
and the 2007 State Budget bill. The Prime Minister's Office Director General Ra'anan Dinur declared after the war that the state would
rebuild communities damaged in the war.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/803663.html

Haaretz , December 12, 2006
Yes to equal rights, no to undermining the Jewish state-End the boycott of Arab parties
The issue of the Arab citizens of Israel has returned to the headlines. This is partly due to the release of the book "Whose Country is This?"
, which chronicles the failed attempt to develop a new pact between Jews and Arabs, and even more so to a series of new documents
 setting forth demands formulated by various Arab groups.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/799187.html

 Haaretz, December 08 2006
A jump start for Palestinian architectureBy Esther Zandberg
"I can use familiar, Western architectural tools in a contemporary museum of art in Europe or the United States, because a museum is a
 Western invention," says architect Senan Abdelqader. "But when they ask me to plan an Arab museum of art, I want to know where the 
request is coming from. First, I ask what process Palestinian society needs to undergo to realize a museum like that."
The connection between Arab culture and an art museum "is not something to be taken for granted, particularly in Palestinian society," explains Abdelqader. "Because of colonial control, its continuous evolutionary development was interrupted, and mutation occurred. It evolved in a forced, arbitrary fashion and lost its independence, self-confidence and identity - particularly after the establishment of the state and our assimilation into Israeli culture."
Abdelqader is designing the Museum of Art in Umm al-Fahm. He was chosen after negotiations with British architect Zaha Hadid broke down. 
This will be the first Arab-Israeli museum of contemporary art and Abdelqader's first major public project. The museum undoubtedly represents a breakthrough in Abdelqader's career, as well as an achievement for the city and the entire Arab-Israeli community. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/797962.html

Haaretz  December 03, 2006
Israeli Arabs seek right to return to villages abandoned in 1948 By Yoav Stern
According to a position paper written by Mossawa - the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel and presented in a conference
in Nazareth on Friday, Israeli Arabs want the right to return to villages abandoned in 1948, educational autonomy and changes to the
 Israeli flag and national anthem.
The paper, written in close coordination with the Israel Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, was presented as part of the week-long
Second Annual Days of Mossawa Festival and Nazareth Film Festival, which ended Saturday.
"Our goal is to achieve a historic compromise with the Jewish community in Israel," Mossawa Center director Jafar Farah told the
 conference. "The move by refugees of 1948 to their villages will not change the demographic balance or endanger the Jews. Unlike
 the refugees in Arab states, we are [already] here," Farah said. "The internal refugees [residents forced to leave their villages in 1948
who moved to other Arab communities within Israel] represent about one-fourth of the Arab population in Israel today."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/795419.html

Haaretz, Oktober 22, 2006
Israeli Arab leader: Avigdor Lieberman leads a fascist party By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
Chairman of the Israeli Arab High Committee, Shuweiki Hatib, on Sunday dubbed Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu a "fascist party" and called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to quit from the coalition talks with Lieberman.
Speaking at a press conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Kafr Qassem massacre, Hatib said "the existence of political figures calling for transfer [of Arabs from Israel], must light a red light for Israeli society."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777879.html

Haaretz, , October 7, 2006
A respected doctor - and a suspicious Arab By Ruth Sinai
Dr. Aziz Darawshe's utopia is located in the basement of Haemek Hospital in Afula. For 17 years, he has worked alongside Jews to
save the lives of Jews and Arabs. No one there examines his identity card. No one hints that his life here is conditional.
Dr. Darawshe directs the hospital's emergency department. Each year, 125,000 patients pass through the department - including the sick,
accident and terror victims, and war casualties. Darawshe sometimes resuscitates three patients in an hour. He can count on one hand the
 number of times a sick or wounded Jewish patient refused to be treated by him because he is Arab. There is something in pain, worry,
sorrow and near-death experiences that unites everyone, he says. "Heart attack victims do not differentiate between Jew and Arab," he says.
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Haaretz, September 27, 2006
No light at the end of the tunnel By Raja Zaatry

The Or Commission report is considered one of the most important and trenchant official documents concerning the state's attitude toward its Arab citizens that has been compiled during Israel's 58 years of existence. The report of the state commission of inquiry, headed by Justice Theodor Or, that was written in the wake of the events of October 2000 in which 12 Arab Israelis and one Palestinian were shot and killed by the security forces failed to live up to the expectations of the families and the Arab public: It made do with casting minimal blame on small cogs in the system, and also on the elected representatives of the Arab public, and placed none on the government echelon that decided that roads had to be opened even at the cost of human lives.
The writer is a journalist and editor at the Al Ittihad Arabic-language daily published in Haifa.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/766884.html

Haaretz September 22, 2006
You're either a Zionist or a terrorist The legal status of fighters By Meron Benvenisti
The Israeli legal system, stretched to the limit by cases of private and public corruption, still finds the time and the resources to provide massive support for spreading and deepening Israel's image as a country suffering from terrorism and fighting for its existence. It is an image of a country threatened by traitors from within (Arab Israelis, hoping for a victory of the Axis of Evil whose center is in Damascus), by Hamas operatives (who aspire to destroy it) and by murderous Lebanese (Hezbollah).
 either a Zionist or a terrorist. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/765578.html