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Eldar responds to Strenger: Would you want to be a Jewish minority in a Palestinian state?

On the question of a one-state solution, Akiva Eldar tells Haaretz blogger Carlo Strenger: Your frustration and disappointment from the setbacks on the path to the two-state solution is leading you and many other good Israeli peacenicks to an illusion.

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Akiva Eldar paints the Green Line. Illustration by Amos Biderman
Before the 1967 lines retire, too

In a farewell column concluding 35 years at Haaretz, Akiva Eldar urges Israelis to keep the two-state solution alive.

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  • An open letter to Akiva Eldar: Looking beyond the two-state solution
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Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas
For Obama, a new term could mean a different take on Middle East peace

Cairo, the site of the U.S. president's 2009 speech, like the entire Arab world, is totally different from what it was at the start of Obama's tenure. The new Middle East reality poses new challenges for the United States, as well as different rules.

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  • Obama's election triumph still excites, just a little less
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  • Netanyahu: I'm looking forward to working with Obama
  • After victory, Obama urges bipartisan work to avoid fiscal crisis
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  • Obama wins in Florida, besting Romney in final vote count
Illustration by Amos Biderman.
For the right man, Israelis would make peace

The consensus is moving to the right, but that doesn't mean Israeli Jews won't support a deal with the PA if the right leader comes along, a new study shows.

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Kahlon speaks with Netanyahu
Kahlon's Knesset musings

The circumstantial evidence indicates that Kahlon's retirement, flattering surveys and the possibility of his heading a 'social' party are no more than a political ploy.

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  • Netanyahu supporters scramble to dissuade Kahlon from running on separate ticket
  • Obama or Romney? Israel's politicians await the results of the U.S. elections
  • Likud's Kahlon decides not to run in upcoming Israeli elections
Sotheby's official holding framed image of white man beating aborigine.
A lesson in remembering that Israel could learn from Australia

Even in Sydney's well-to-do neighborhoods, there are people who make sure to show their appreciation for the 'original custodians of this land.'

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Palestinians UN - AP - September 8, 2011
Palestinians seek to enhance UN status to observer state

Position paper to be distributed to European governments as follow-up to September 2011 request for UN recognition.

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  • Israel's grand illusion on Palestinian UN recognition
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Mean to our allies?
How Israel dug its own grave in Lebanon

In a new book, the former Mossad commander in Beirut documents four decades of Israel's 'shameful attitude' and failed policies vis-à-vis Lebanon.

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  • Ariel Sharon feared genocide charges over Israel's role in Sabra and Shatila
Illistration by Amos Biderman
The Jewish majority is history

The government's acknowledgement that Jews are a minority in this land means one thing only: Apartheid is here.

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  • How Israel will be destroyed without one shot being fired
  • Tourist tip #188 / Independence Hall, where the State of Israel was declared in a secret ceremony
Illustration by Amos Biderman.
Ehud Barak's wilted olive branch

A tough hawk while a conflict with Iran was on the table, the Defense Minister now attempts to stave off the danger of early elections by playing up his dovishness - again.

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  • A call to Israelis from U.S. Jews: Make peace an election issue
iran missile - AP - April 18 2011
Moves by U.S., Israel bolster claim they're trying to topple Iran regime

Obama legitimizing a group seeking regime change, and Lieberman's statements serve conspiracy claims that Israel and America are fostering revolution in Tehran.

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  • Report: Iran's fear of Israeli strike in 2008 led to series of air defense mishaps
Palestinian children add rocks to block a road during a protest.
UN Agency: Israel Continues to Impede Palestinians' Access to Basic Services

International entities are covering costs of West Bank infrastructure projects – even though Israel is responsible for them, according to UN agency.

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Netanyahu paints a red line, while Abbas paints a green line
Abbas, the man who drew the Green Line

While Netanyahu was busy drawing a red line, the Palestinian president re-drew the Green Line: his people's red line for negotiating any peace agreement with Israel.

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  • Mahmoud Abbas to UN: Israeli policies leading to 'new Nakba;' recognize Palestine before it's too late
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Israeli left-wing party drafts new Mideast peace plan to replace Oslo Accords

Under Meretz's plan, Israel would help Palestine be accepted as a UN member, and be the first country to recognize the new state.

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An IDF drill - IDF Spokesman's Office - Archive
Poll: Majority of Palestinians, Israelis say attack on Iran would result in major war

Survey polling Israelis, Palestinians also shows most respondents oppose a one-state solution, in which Jews and Arabs share equal rights within the same country.

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  • Iran's nuclear chief admits providing IAEA with false information
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Work halted on park being built on Arab land with help of Israel Railways

Site in question is a 30-dunam area, half of which is owned by residents of the Palestinian village of Shivtin.

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Illegal construction work in the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
Israel seeks court permission to expand 40 West Bank settlements

Government responds to Yesh Din petition, says old military expropriation orders allow for construction on privately owned Palestinian land.

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  • Fearing backlash from settlement's uprooting, security officials assign bodyguards to Israel's AG
  • Defense Ministry says will dismantle, not destroy, homes at settlement of Migron
  • For first time, Israeli state agency opposes segment of West Bank separation fence
Illustration by Amos Biderman.
Separated by shared history: The story of Israeli Arabs and Palestinians

A recent study shows how Palestinian Israeli citizens and their counterparts in the West Bank have developed separate narratives.

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Jonas Gahr Store in a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak in 2011.
Israel, Palestinians may lose chance for two-state solution, Norway FM says

On eve of his visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah, Jonas Gahr Store says international community must consider how to relate to the import of goods that are produced in the settlements, 'which we consider illegal according to international law.'

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  • South African Jews outraged at plan to label West Bank products as from 'Israeli Occupied Territories'
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How do you say 'price tag' in Arabic?

The security Israelis currently enjoy, which allows them to ignore the humiliation of Palestinians and the desire for vengeance it breeds, is temporary.

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The Agan Ha'ayalot neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze'ev
Israeli official: Housing ministry invaded privately-owned Palestinian land

Col. Ofer Hindi tells Knesset committee that the Defense Ministry did not take the necessary steps to prevent a road near Givat Ze'ev from being expropriated from Palestinians.

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Zion Square, where a crowd of Jewish youths recently attacks Arab youths.
Israel Police may probe group warning Arab men not to date Jewish women

The Lehava anti-assimilation group recently distributed flyers warning Arabs not to approach Jewish women; 'We don't want you to get hurt,' flyer read.

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Oslo. Illustration by Amos Biderman
What happens when a Druze and a Christian quarrel with a Jew in Oslo?

Norway's policy is to unite the Palestinians. Even a Druze Israeli ambassador and his Christian Arab deputy cannot change that.

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Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard
NATO official: Soon, Israel won’t have unanimous support for Iran strike

In exclusive interview with Haaretz, Canadian general warns that military strike could serve interests of jihadis.

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  • Faced with wave of criticism over Iran, Netanyahu coddles journalists who support a military strike
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert meeting former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak – AP.
Olmert refused 2007 invite to address Arab League, support Saudi peace offer

Haaretz learns that although meetings were held in effort to promote the idea, the then prime minister backed out at last minute, choosing the Palestinian front over a regional solution.

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