tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15389601904451490862011-07-28T06:36:11.264-07:00The Israeli Initiativehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796432850603202726noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538960190445149086.post-37969359161905618472010-03-02T23:10:00.001-08:002010-03-02T23:13:21.821-08:00

(IsraelNN.com) 'The Israeli Initiative,' an Israeli non-governmental organization, called this week to close down refugee camps in Jerusalem. A recent decision regarding refugees living in South Africa sets a precedent allowing cities to shut down camps whose residents refuse to resettle, the group argues.City officials in Cape Town plan to clear out the local Blue Waters Refugee Camp this week

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MK Orlev of Jewish Home (formerly National Religious Party) evokes The Israeli Initiative in an interview with Arutz Sheva: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135933A Palestinian journalist talks about "the good old days" before the peace process: http://www.hudsonny.org/2010/01/the-good-old-days-beofre-peace.phpA Palestinian refugee camp in Iraq run by UNHCR is closed: http://

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The United States announced on Thursday that its pledge to UNRWA for 2010: $10 million for food and creation of jobs, and another $30 million for "UNRWA's core services," as a press release from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem stated. Filippo Grandi, the new Commissioner General of UNRWA called this "an example of American commitment to supporting UNRWA and improving the daily lives of

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Is a two-state solution "delusional?" We at the Israeli Initiative think so, and, to our surprise, MK Daniel Ben-Simon of the Labor party seems to agree!Ben-Simon, a former writer for Ha'aretz, formerly served as head of the Labor's Knesset faction. Yesterday, he attended a meeting of the Knesset's Education Committee, where he heard about the growth of towns in Judea and Samaria. According to

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Last night, the inaugural meeting of The Lobby for Greater Israel was held in the Knesset. The new lobby is made up of Knesset members from a variety of coalition and opposition members, and many ministers attended the meeting, in support of the lobby.Yoav Sorek and Moriya Taassan represented The Israeli Initiative in the meeting. Moriya said: "We hope that this important lobby will grow to

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The Israeli Initiative is looking for volunteers who would like to help spread the word and share the Initiative's ideas. If you're interested, send an e-mail to: israelinitiative1@gmail.comPlease write your full name, phone number, e-mail address and languages you speak\read, and we will get back to you with the ways you can spread the news about the Initiative.

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Dear readers,We know we've been slacking in our blog posts lately, but now we're back with a bang! It looks like someone in Canada has been reading The Israeli Initiative's booklet on refugees, since the Canadian Treasure has pulled money out of UNRWA. Here's a release we sent out to the foreign press:PRESS RELEASE: ISRAELI THINK TANK PRAISES CANADA'S WORK TOWARDS PEACECANADIAN GOVERNMENT

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A new English-language play is touring Israel, titled "Building Understanding: Epitaph for a Dead Warehouse." The show combines video clips with a one-man performance by Chris Gunness, who plays the part of a UN warehouse in Gaza described as "the victim of an excruciatingly painful fire that burned me down," due to the IDF using illegal white phosphorous to bomb the building. The videos show

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Here is a selection of interesting links we've collected over the past two weeks on URWA and the Palestinian refugees:Canada: Revive Refugee Committee - Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon told Israeli President Shimon Peres that he seeks to revive the 1991 multilateral committee to resolve the refugee problem.No Way Home: The Tragedy of the Palestinian Diaspora - Judith Miller and David

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At a Likud party meeting two days ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said he optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. One has to wonder: What does he mean by "optimistic?" Does this optimism mean that Netanyahu thinks there will be progress in the peace process, or does he think the opposite: that the process, which is useless to begin with, will fall apart soon.This cynicism

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The holiday of Sukkot, while a Jewish festival, is also a universal festival. In the book of Zechariah it is mentioned that kings of the nations will come up to Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot. In the Talmud it mentions that on Sukkot 70 sacrifices are brought for the seventy nations of the world.The message of the Israeli Initiative, while outwardly focusing only on Israel,

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A few days ago, I blogged about the lack of a Palestinian partner for peace, using Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayad's positon paper to show the absurdity of calling him a moderate. With the riots on Yom Kippur Eve, we learn once again that the phrase "Palestinian moderate," is, in fact, an oxymoron. When French tourists visited the Temple Mount on the eve of the holiest day on the

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Through a miraculous PR coup, Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayad has been labeled a "moderate voice of leadership" for a Palestinian state, after distributing a position paper entitled "Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State: Program of the Thirteenth Government - August 2009" to the UN, EU and American and Russian governments. In an article for Philadelphia newspaper "The Bulletin,"

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Agency Has Perpetuated Palestinian "Refugeehood" For Sixty YearsThis week's United Nations General Assembly has been marked by a week-long commemoration of 60 years of "achievements and service" by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). At a press conference in New York, Karen Koning Abu-Zayd, Commisioner-General of UNRWA, declared that the commemoration was a tribute to the refugees

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