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Ten Reasons That the Anti-Apartheid Movement Is Immoral, Hinders Peace
Sol Salbe - +972 Magazine, 17 Feb 2014

Alan Dershowitz published an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday [12 Feb 2014] giving his top 10 reasons that boycotting Israel is immoral. What if he wrote the same article in 1974 about the anti-Apartheid movement? It might look something like this.

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The Boycott Isn’t Economic Warfare, It’s Psychological
Larry Derfner - +972 Magazine, 17 Feb 2014

It does not have to bring the Israeli economy to its knees, or even close, to force an end to the occupation.

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Sentenced to Life at Birth: What Do Palestinian Refugees Want?
Paula Schmitt – +972 Magazine, 10 Feb 2014

For more than 66 years, Palestinian refugees have been languishing in squalid conditions across camps in the Middle East. But do all of them agree that a return to Palestine is necessarily the best solution? Through her extensive research, Paula Schmitt finds that while different refugees may have different desires, hopelessness remains everyone’s worst enemy.

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Ya’alon’s Jab at Kerry Proves Israel Isn’t in the Peace-Making Business
Mairav Zonszein - +972 Magazine, 20 Jan 2014

Moshe Ya’alon, the man charged with defending the State of Israel, was quoted calling U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “obsessive and messianic” on Tuesday [14 Jan 2014]. “They say time is working against us. We should not be alarmed by all kinds of fear mongering,” the “they” apparently referring to Washington and the “fear mongering” to “the peace process” that Kerry is so damn obsessed with.

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The Year Palestine Became a Zero-Sum Game – 1929
Ran Greenstein - +972 Magazine, 20 Jan 2014

After 1929, Arabic-speaking Jews who had lived in peace and cultural affinity with fellow residents, and orthodox Jews who had shunned Zionism, could no longer feel safe among their erstwhile neighbors and friends. Introducing new information and highlighting forgotten facts, a new book by Hillel Cohen brings fresh context to the 1929 massacres in Mandate Palestine.

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