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...REUVEN KIMELMAN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 How did the Palestinians’ odds for statehood and those of the Kurds get reversed in twenty years? The Kurds have spent several decades, especially the last, constructing the educational, economic, military, and political institutions...

...For the Palestinian Authority to win UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, it would have to overcome major hurdles presented by the Obama administration. Back in 1948, Israel achieved its independence through a U.S.-backed UN General Assembly resolution. ...

... statehood to use the one-state argument to shock Israelis into acting differently. The Israeli side has given us ideal tools for evoking such leverage. For example, when Israel evokes an existential fear of demographics—non-Jews exceeding the number of Jews between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River...

... e w a n t t o l o o k b a c k i n t i m e t o f i g u r e o u t h o w the Zion of the Jewish peo­ ple’s dreams became Israel as we know it today. In the early days before statehood, Zionism was a complex phenomenon. T While some talked of nationhood and governance, others w...

... to the unrest, as evidenced by its contagious quality, it seems clear that in each case the protests are essentially about the internal affairs of state rather than about Israel or Palestine. However, if freedom truly spreads in the region, the denial of Palestinian rights and their lack of statehood...

...Warren Spielberg Source Citation Spielberg Warren 2011 A New Psychology of Hope in Palestine? Tikkun 26 3 This movement is small at the moment, but it has been activated by a prime minister who calls for an independent declaration of statehood whether or not the Israelis...

... minorities. Furtherm ore, I hope th at sixty years of statehood have al­ into consideration the toll th at sustained conflict and violence ready successfully achieved one of the dreams of Zionism, to take on the character of Israeli culture and civil society. One prove to the world that the Jews...

... should be viscerally repugnant to any sense of justice, and is a status quo that is patently unacceptable in the norms of the 21st century world. Since the Political Zionists’ success, statehood has provided a measure of protection for individual Jews who live in Israel, but it has also created...

... decade, argue that the inability of Israel to find its rightful place among its geo­ graphical neighbors is precisely because of the strong European bias of the state’s founders and the European notions of statehood which emanated therefrom. Were there to be greater understanding of the cultural...

... of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. For more than half of its years of statehood, Israel has been an occupying power . . . The Occupation is not only a deplorable situation affecting the lives of the Palestinians it has an equally pernicious effect on the very political and spiritual substance of Israeli...

... follows another one: the 69th anniversary of Israel’s statehood, commemorated by Israelis as Yom Ha’Atzma’ut (May 1 and 2). Yom Ha’Atzma’ut is usually translated as “Israeli Independence Day.” That English word means “not hanging on.” But the Hebrew would be more accurately translated as “Day...

... sectors that mostly oppose meaningful Palestinian statehood— Haredim , modern Orthodox communities, and Russians—are large and fast-growing components of Jewish Israeli society. Secular, middle-class Ashkenazim, who are more likely to accept Palestinian statehood, have the lowest rate of population...

... such a state do not yet exist, his party almost certainly owed its electoral victory to his display of staunch opposition to Palestinian statehood. The government he subsequently appointed contains members who are even more extreme and overtly racist than Netanyahu himself. Such a far right government was made...

... What, then, are the essential elements for each community in such a state? For Palestinians, statehood may not be a nonnegotiable demand. After all, Palestinians want a state, primarily to provide them with certain rights and protections and as a vehicle for identity and self-government, which may...

... ment of implementation of treaty obligations, the Quartet should place on the table for the parties the draft of the full peace agreement (in the format of a Declaration of Principles) in­ cluding all of the permanent status issues: • Palestinian statehood and sovereignty • Delineation...

.... In 1944 the Zionist Organization of America adopted a resolution calling for “a Jewish commonwealth to embrace the whole of Palestine, undivided and undim inished.” Arendt wrote that it would be preferable to work toward statehood...

... couldn’t help thinking that they consti­ Muslim listeners to Obama’s speech un­ each other’s statehood, but we must ignore tuted the speech that President Clinton derstand th at unless the president is them. Arafat rejected the Clinton plan not should have given at the start of the Oslo willing...