Opinión Information Clearing House, 21.10.2015 Susan Abulhawa, escritora palestinaIn 1845, Leutenant Colonel George Gawler submitted a report detailing the potential for Jewish colonisation of Palestine. The obstacles he foresaw had to do with resources and the feasibility of convincing Jews to immigrate to Palestine. No consideration was given to the native Palestinian population already living there for centuries. Decades...
Israelis and Palestinians are Living in Different Worlds
Opinión +972 Magazine, 19.10.2015 Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, editor en jefe
- There is something about the way that Israelis and Palestinians are discussing the violent events of recent weeks that suggests a new, particularly worrying dissonance between the two societies.
How Israel Hid Its Secret Nuclear Weapons Program
Columna Politico Magazine, 15.04.2015 Avner Cohen y William BurrFor decades, the world has known that the massive Israeli facility near Dimona, in the Negev Desert, was the key to its secret nuclear project. Yet, for decades, the world—and Israel—knew that Israel had once misleadingly referred to it as a “textile factory.” Until now, though, we’ve never known...
Abbas’ Peace Project Has Hit a Dead End (I)
Opinión +972 Magazine, 30.09.2015 Menachem Klein, profesor de ciencias políticas en Universidad Bar IlanHe chose the path of moderation. He agreed to a small Palestinian state alongside Israel. He won the support of America and Europe. He proved his obligation to maintaining security for Israelis. And he got nothing in return. The tragedy of Mahmoud Abbas, part...
How one of the smallest religious communities in the world is struggling to sustain its community
Reportaje Al Monitor, 20.09.2015 Ahmad MelbehmThe Samaritans are desperately trying to sustain their lineage in their West Bank enclave on Mount Gerizim Mount Gerizim, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, is home to the Samaritans, who call themselves the world's smallest religious community. There are some 780 Samaritans total, distributed between Gerizim, where 380 of them...
The Role of the UN General Assembly
Análisis Council on Foreign Relations, 08.09.2015Introduction Since its inception seventy years ago, the United Nations General Assembly has been a forum for lofty declarations, sometimes audacious rhetoric, and rigorous debate over the world's most vexing issues, from poverty and development to peace and security. As the deliberative and representative organ of the United Nations, the assembly holds...
Playing the Long Game on Iran: The Neoconservatives, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Republicans Game the System
Artículo TomDispatch, 23.08.2015 David Bromwich, columnista y profesor de literatura (Yale University)“We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, made that declaration to Jack Goldsmith of the Office of Legal Counsel in the months after September 11, 2001. Goldsmith...
“The Iranian Threat” Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace?
Artículo TomDispatch, 20.08.2015 Noam Chomsky, académico y profesor emeritus del Departamento de Linguística y Filosofía (MIT)Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Most of the world apparently shares the...
One Year After the War: Gaza’s Lost Hopes
Opinión OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015 Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...
An Insane Ambition Which is Turning Into a Civil War: Clinton, Juppé, Erdoğan, Daesh and the PKK
Artículo Voltaire Network, 03.08.2015 Thierry Meyssan, académico e intelectual francés especializado en relaciones internacionales; presidente de Voltaire NetworkThe resumption of the repression of Kurds in Turkey is nothing more than a consequence of the impossible task of implementing the Juppé-Wright plan of 2011. While it was easy to deploy Daesh in the Syrian desert and the...