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Znet Article Plitnick: Hamas Victory Q/A

Znet Article, February, 01 2006 Mitchell Plitnick
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The stunning victory by Hamas in the Palestinian election has raised many questions. Jewish Voice for Peace offers some answers to help our members and supporters make sense ...

Znet Article Plitnick: Is There A New Labor Party In Israel?

Znet Article, November, 15 2005 Mitchell Plitnick
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 Amir Peretz’s stunning victory last week has been hailed by some as the dawning of a new day of hope in Israeli politics. Peretz is certainly a very new and different sort of leader for a major Israeli political party...

Znet Article Plitnick: Gaza Withdrawal Backgrounder

Znet Article, August, 17 2005 Mitchell Plitnick
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The Gaza withdrawal, while a positive step forward in some ways, signifies the perpetuation of Israeli control over Palestinians albeit in a different form. The US must maintain pressure on Israel to continue to vacate settlements and outposts in ...

Znet Article Plitnick: The Writing on the Wall

Znet Article, August, 14 2004 Mitchell Plitnick
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The Writing on the Wall

Znet Article Plitnick: Can Sharon win by force?

Znet Article, April, 21 2004 Mitchell Plitnick
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For the past decade, political leaders -- Israeli, Palestinian, American, European and Arab alike, have had one point of agreement with peace activists around the Israel-Palestine conflict. That was the axiom that “neither side would trium...

Znet Article Plitnick: Assassination

Znet Article, March, 29 2004 Mitchell Plitnick
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In the latest and most dramatic of Israel's extrajudicial executions, the Israeli air force killed the spirit...

Znet Article Plitnick: Singling Out Israel?

Znet Article, January, 14 2004 Mitchell Plitnick
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The Executive Commission of the European Union recently conducted an opinion poll of member states asking respondents to indicate which of 14 countries they believe is "a threat to world peace." Slightly over half - 52 percent - said Iraq was a th...

Znet Article Plitnick: An Accord No One is Hearing

Znet Article, November, 10 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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In September 2000, amidst tensions heightened by the collapse of peace negotiations at Camp David the preceding summer, the second intifada began. The reasons for the failure at Camp David have been debated and examined at considerable length. The...

Znet Article Plitnick: Missile Strikes, Suicide Bombings

Znet Article, August, 28 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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Today’s headlines tell us that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have declared that the temporary truce with Israel is at an end in the wake of Israel’s attack in Gaza City which assassinated a leading figure of Hamas. The headlines tell us ...

Znet Article Plitnick: The Iron Wall of Fear

Znet Article, July, 10 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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Back in 1923, the situation in Palestine was markedly different from what we have been familiar with for th...

Znet Article Plitnick: Who controls US foreign policy?

Znet Article, May, 14 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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The comments by Rep. James Moran (D-VA), just before the invasion of Iraq, regarding the role of the Jewish community in the march to war set off a small firestorm in Washington. Moran’s statement that “if it were not for the stron...

Znet Article Plitnick: Hope In Days Of Despair

Znet Article, March, 24 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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The crime that began this week is almost beyond imagination. Over the course of the past few months, the Bush administration has tried desperately to garner world support for their invasion, and to find some shred of evidence that Iraq actually po...

Znet Article Plitnick: Reclaiming Anti-Semitism

Znet Article, February, 14 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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Those of us who are involved in activism around Israel/Palestine, and take a position critical of the standard American and Israeli views of the conflict are constantly peppered with accusations of anti-Semitism; or, in the case of Jews, we are to...

Znet Article Plitnick: Scandalous Diversions

Znet Article, January, 14 2003 Mitchell Plitnick
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After the presidential elections of 2000, Americans are no strangers to election controversies. Nor are Israelis strangers to controversies around political fundraising or alliance building, as allegations of impropriety dogged both of the last tw...

Znet Article Plitnick: What does Mitzna Promise?

Znet Article, December, 21 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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Since the beginning of the second Intifada, it has often been said that both the Israelis and Palestinians are afflicted with leadership that is not capable of making peace. Many people, across the political spectrums of both peoples have posited ...

Znet Article Plitnick: Barak's Legacy

Znet Article, November, 29 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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Today, former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak will speak at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, and many American Jews, led by A Jewish Voice for Peace, will stand to protest his message. No, these will not be supporters of Ariel Sharon. These Jewis...

Znet Article Plitnick: A Tale of Two Governments

Znet Article, November, 03 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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In the space of a single day this week, some significant events transpired in both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. On the Israeli side, the unity government did not survive to its second birthday, as Labor, led by now-forme...

Znet Article Plitnick: Terror And History

Znet Article, October, 16 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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As the momentous debates in the United States Congress over whether or not that body would abdicate its constitutional responsibility and hand over to a radical right-wing president a free hand in launching a full-scale war on Iraq rambled on this...

Znet Article Plitnick: Whose Goals does Violence Serve?

Znet Article, August, 11 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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Just today, I received the following message from Gila Svirsky, the long-time peace activist of the Coalition of Women for Peace and Women in Black in Israel: “Dafna Sphruch z"l died today of her injuries from the pigua [terrorist attack â...

Znet Article Plitnick: Anatomy Of An Atrocity

Znet Article, July, 28 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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In the early morning hours, just after midnight on July 23, an American-made F-16 fighter jet, paid for with American tax dollars granted to Israel, launched a missile at a Gaza City apartment building, with the goal of killing Sheikh Salah Shehad...

Znet Article Plitnick: A Speech To End All Peace

Znet Article, June, 27 2002 Mitchell Plitnick
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Rarely since the creation of the state of Israel has peace between Israel and the Palestinians seemed as unattainable as it seems to be right now. Recent days have seen many Israelis killed, including children in Palestinian attacks, and many P...

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