Yousef Munayyer: Last week in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Nakba activists group Zochrot (“Remembering” in Hebrew) attempted to recite the names of depopulated Palestinian towns at Israel’s Independence Day celebration. They were repressed.
Yousef Munayyer: In her piece “Zionism Denial,” Member of Knesset Einat Wilf rightly argues that Zionism, and not the Holocaust, led to the creation of the modern state of Israel. But in the process of making her argument she significantly distorts the history of Zionism.
Yousef Munayyer: Israelis and Palestinians alike cannot move forward without addressing massacres from the past.
Yousef Munayyer: Peter Beinart’s New York Times op-ed, “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements is an example of the increased volume voices described as Liberal Zionists have garnered in the discourse on Israel & Palestine. But liberal Zionism is a contradiction is terms.
Yousef Munayyer: The United States should seize the opportunity as a push for peace while Palestinians increasingly embrace non-violence.
It is the intention of this conference to underscore the reality we are facing by: first, examining and illuminating current Palestinian existence in historic Palestine; second, by truthfully and candidly pursuing the historical process of the Judaization of the country; and third, by exploring the roles available to people seeking justice for the Palestinian people.
The Middle East is vital to global stability and crucial to U.S. interests. Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria have emerged as a centerpiece of American foreign policy, influencing how the United States is viewed in the region and around the world. Because of the gravity of conditions in the region, specifically in the mentioned countries and their vital importance, in similar ways or in their own unique way, the United States is facing one of its most difficult and significant international challenges in decades. With most events in the region having been set in motion by American decisions and actions, the United States has both a national and a moral interest to change course.
Panel I – Mechanics of “Politicide:” Palestinians since 1967; Panel II – Consequences of “Politicide”; Panel III – The “Politicide” of Others: Do Palestinians Have Options
against “Politicide?”
13 June 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Samar Assad: 202-338-1290 The U.S. Must Adopt a Policy of Conflict Resolution rather than Conflict Management in the Middle East By continuing on the path of conflict management, the United States has failed to bring an end to Palestinian-Israeli violence and has failed to embark on the path … Read more
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