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Wed 31 Jan 2007

Israel’s increased isolation

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There’ve been many words spent but little said with regards to Jimmy Carter’s latest book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” ORSCP’s blog passes along some articles of interest on occasion that we think are worth the read. This one offers some interesting insight into the heated debate around the mere fact that the fomrer U.S. president dared even write the book. M.J. Rosenberg is the Director of Israel Policy Forum’s Washington Policy Center.

By M.J. Rosenberg
Israel Policy forum

Getting together with friends who travel in different circles is a good way to get beyond the usual bubble in which most of us live and hear views different from those of our regular crowd. (more…)

 

Mon 15 Jan 2007

Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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Sara Roy was a participant of the 2006 Peace Works conference in Olympia, sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice. This peace appeared in PeaceWork.

Railroad tracks leading to Birkenau
Railroad tracks leading to Birkenau, December 1994. Photo: Skip Schiel

Some months ago I was invited to reflect on my journey as a child of Holocaust survivors. This journey continues and shall continue until the day I die. Though I cannot possibly say everything, it seems especially poignant that I should be addressing this topic at a time when the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is descending so tragically into a moral abyss and when, for me at least, the very essence of Judaism, of what it means to be a Jew, seems to be descending with it.

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Thu 4 Jan 2007

Hurricane Carter

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Jimmy Carter's bookBy Henry Siegman
The Nation

Former President Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, provoked an uproar even before its publication. The reason for the controversy was the book’s title more than its content, for it seemed to suggest that the avatar of democracy in the Middle East may be on its way to creating a political order that resembles South Africa’s apartheid model of discrimination and repression, albeit on ethnic-religious rather than racial grounds.

Since the appearance of the book coincided with the recent Congressional elections, leaders of the Democratic Party went into near panic and fell over one another disassociating themselves from Carter’s book and his criticisms of certain Israeli policies. Indeed, the panic was so intense that so independent-minded a man as Howard Dean, chair of the party, who in the past has had the courage to challenge the conventional wisdom of the party’s establishment on a whole range of issues, joined the herd as well.

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