The New Israeli Budget – Rami Livneh
So far there are ten Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, two in the Sinai and five in the West Bank. The Government of Israel has further expansion in view.
So far there are ten Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, two in the Sinai and five in the West Bank. The Government of Israel has further expansion in view.
Esther Vilenska, members of the Central Committee of Maki, instructed the party's members to move away from Matzpen's demonstrators so that the public and the US Embassy officials would not confuse their polite slogans with our impudent ones.
B: Behave like Nazis? The world would despise us. We couldn't do it. A: Who cares about the world? The world didn't care about us. B: Even so; you can't do it. We still need world sympathy. A: To hell with world sympathy. Security is what we need.
The debate taking place in Israel about the future of the Occupied Territories concerns inevitably the nature of Israel and the Zionist claim that the Jews have a “right” over the Palestinian territory. Thus the most fundamental principles of Zionism are back on the agenda.
The choice is between an Israeli and Middle Eastern State of Israel, aiming to integrate in its environment — and a Zionist state, a foreign body in this region, a state that is subordinated to the Jewish communities around the world and to the global “power centers” where most Jews are located.
Hebrew nationalism is indeed opposed to Zionism; but it is incapable of confronting Zionism thoroughly and repudiating it radically, root and branch. For the Hebrew nation has come into being as a result of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, and therefore the nationalist outlook, for which this nation is an absolute and supreme value, cannot radically repudiate Zionism, its progenitor. Hebrew nationalism can only claim that Zionism is outdated, no longer suited to present conditions, and Hebrew nationalism ought to be embraced in its place.
A political solution must sooner or later be found, that is both realistic and just. The alternative is ‒ eventually ‒ war, which will at best only defer, not solve, the political problems.
Too much of it or too little is undesirable, but in reasonable degree anti-Semitism is desirable. It reminds Jews that they are Jews, and urges them to remain loyal to their ancient homeland.
Recognising the right to self-determination of the Kurdish people and establishing an independent Kurdish state would not in any way be detrimental to the Arab liberation movement; on the contrary, an independent Kurdish state in Iraqi Kurdistan could become a centre and lever for the entire Kurdish national movement in Iran and Turkey.