refusenik watch
The original Refusenik banner we carried listed only the number of signers on the Courage To Refuse / Combatants Letter. This new one counts signers on all three refusenik pledges, as well as refuseniks who were imprisoned for following their conscience and are not signed on one of the lists.
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May 15, 2008
Understanding the conflict
Israeli society: General analyses and commentaries
(see also 'Israeli society: ethnicity and apartheid')
1. 1. Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the Struggle against RacismNira Yuval-Davis, 7th December 2006
A 'settler-society' perspective on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
2. Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Moshé Machover
Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust Annual Lecture 30 November 2006
"No balance of power lasts forever. A genuine resolution of the conflict will become possible in the longer term, given a change in the present balance of power. It is impossible to foresee exactly how this change may come about. But it seems quite certain that it will not be confined to the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, while all else remains as it is: it will necessarily involve tectonic movements in the entire region, as well as international global shifts."
3. Beyond tribalism
Tom Segev, author of the bestselling One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate interviewed by Suzy Hansen
'...a new generation of Israelis is moving beyond Zionism -- but there will be no peace until old warriors Sharon and Arafat are gone.'
4. A Failed Israeli Society Collapses While Its Leaders Remain SilentAvraham Burg, speaker of the Knesset from 1999 to 2003
August 2003
c. 1,500 words
An extraordinary, biting piece by a Labour Party Knesset member on the crisis of Zionism: "The Zionist revolution has always rested on two pillars: a just path and an ethical leadership. Neither of these is operative any longer. The Israeli nation today rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice. As such, the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep. There is a real chance that ours will be the last Zionist generation. There may yet be a Jewish state here, but it will be a different sort, strange and ugly."
5. What do Israelis know? A discussion between Ran HaCohen and Jonathan CookAl-Ahram Weekly 7-13 August and 21-27 August 2003
Eyes wide shut The Israeli army controls the consciousness of the Israeli public by keeping it ignorant of the realities of occupation, argues Ran HaCohen.
Eyes wide open It is not ignorance that keeps the Israeli public from decrying their state's atrocities against the Palestinians. There are different kinds of blindness, replies Jonathan Cook.
6. Israel @ 60
Rethinking Israel after Sixty Years Jeff Halper (Icahd)
