Journalist Yair Lapid has announced he’s quitting his TV show and entering politics. This is going to be the shake-up Israeli politics has been waiting for — a chance to re-align itself away from the settler movement and the hilltop youth and back towards focussing on the peace process, on work inside Green Line Israel, on education and healthcare. Lapid isn’t going to be the perfect politician, but his influence in politics, like his father’s before him, will, on balance, be a very positive one. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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A new Gallup poll has found that two-thirds of Israelis are supportive of the peace process — presumably land-for-peace, something along these lines — and yet two-thirds are also saying they don’t think that a permanent peace will ever be achievable. So what’s the deal? Israelis want to live in peace and they support a Palestinian state, but it seems that continued recalcitrance on both sides are making it difficult [...]
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Kadima MK Otniel Schneller spoke at a plenum discussion in the Knesset on whether J Street should be investigated, though it’s unclear for what, according to the Jerusalem Post. “What really interests me are the mutual relations between the Jewish world and the State of Israel,” Schneller said, explaining why he brought the topic up for formal debate in the plenum [...] Schneller said that “if they say that if Israel [...]
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Israeli politicians came out in force today to speak at various sessions at J Street’s 2011 Conference. MKs Yoel Hasson (Kadima), Shlomo Molla (Kadima), Nachman Shai (Kadima), Daniel Ben-Simon (Labor), Orit Zuaretz (Labor) all spoke today – Ben Simon, Shai and Molla at individual sessions I attended, but all of them in a plenary later in the afternoon. Out of these sessions came a number of points. From Nachman Shai [...]
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Roger Cohen has written an insightful op-ed in the International Herald Tribune; while often Cohen seems to fail to recognise and balance both sides’ demands and qualms equally, I think he’s hit the nail on the head this time. The institution-building currently being undertaken by Fatah in the West Bank, led primarily by Prime Minister Salam Fayad, is crucial to the future establishment of a Palestinian state. That, along with [...]
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Tzipi Livni was interviewed last week by Tablet Mag, an online magazine writing about Jewish issues I just discovered, and some of her comments are very interesting. For one, she describes the increasing distance between Israeli and Diaspora Jews, something she also highlighted in her op-ed in the Jerusalem Post earlier this month. Q: If you had to imagine a project that would help to build a sense of community and [...]
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Tzipi Livni wrote a very insightful piece in the Jerusalem Post last week, which was re-published in the Jewish News this week. It highlights many of the issues I’ve been harping on about for the last year — here in this blog, as well as in my monthly column at the Jewish News. Here are some of my thoughts on Livni’s key points. You can see the text of her article [...]
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A very creative and interesting piece in today’s Age: AS SHE tries to put in place a minority government, Prime Minister Julia Gillard must be hoping she can avoid the fate of two other prominent female political leaders: Canada’s Kim Campbell and Israel’s Tzipi Livni… Wrangling three rural independents would seem like child’s play compared to Livni’s task. Then again, the Israelis are used to it. For Australia, this a [...]
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