50 Years of Occupation, 100 selected reads
Initial stage/The lies
1) +972 Magazine – 1 June – by Dahlia Scheindlin – 1968 poll shows what Jewish Jerusalemites thought of Palestinians
2) Mondoweiss – 2 June – by James North – Israel provoked the Six-Day War in 1967, and it was not fighting for survival
3) Middle East Eye – 5 June – by Richard Silverstein – 1967 War: How a euphoric Israeli victory turned into a nightmare (partly overlap with Expansion/Occupation)
4) Foreign Policy Journal – 5 June – by Jeremy R. Hammond – Who Started the Six Day War of June 1967?
5) Mondoweiss – 5 June – by Philip Weiss – The ’67 War called Tony Judt to Israel — where he found an ‘anachronism’ he ‘intensely disliked’
6) Middle East Eye – 5 June – by Mary Pelletier – ‘They tell lies’: Israel’s ‘museum of coexistence’ erases Palestinian history
7) Electronic Intifada – 6 June – by Ilan Pappe – Israeli Occupation was Plan Fulfilled (partly overlap with Expansion/Occupation)
8) +972 Magazine – 6 June – by Rami Younis – When will the Israeli Left accept the occupation started in ’48, not ’67?
9) Mondoweiss – 7 June – by Jonathan Ofir – The issue isn’t the ‘occupation”, it’s Zionism.
10) Mondoweiss – 8 June – by Nadia Elia – Liberal Zionists think the ’67 occupation is all about them.
11) +972 Magazine – 8 June – by Amjad Iraqi – The occupation is a symptom, not source, of Israel’s racist system
12) Haaretz – 13 June – by Zvi Bar’el – Israel’s Victory in Six-Day War Perplexes Arab Intellectuals to This Day
13) Orient XXI – 13 June – by Silvain Cypel – How the Israeli Generals Prepared The Conquest Long Before 1967
14) +972 Magazine – 26 June – by James J. Zogby – What we choose to ignore about the 1967 War
The Expansion/Occupation
15) +972 Magazine – 1 June – by Edo Konrad – The Man on the Heels of Israel’s Settlement Enterprise
16) Mooresville Tribune – I June – by Dan Ephron – For 50 years, Israelis have clashed over the West Bank. The expansionists have won.
17) +972 Magazine – 2 June – by Hagai El-Ad – Palestinians play a lead role in the theater of occupation.
18) i24 News – 3 June – Billions spent on settlers since Israel’s control of West Bank
19) Lancaster Online – 4 June – by Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh – 50 years on, Israel keeps tight grip on Palestinian economy
20) Al Jazeera – 4 June – HRW condemns Israel’s ’50 years of occupation abuses’
21) +972 Magazine – 4 June – by Gerard Horton – Half a century of occupation threatens our international legal order
22) The Nation – 5 June- by Neve Gordon – How Israel’s Occupation Shifted From a Politics of Life to a Politics of Death
23) NPR – 5 June – by Daniel Estrin- 50 Years After War, Palestinian Man Recalls How He Overcame Displacement
24) The New York Times – 5 June – by Hanan Ashrawi – How the 1967 War Came Home to Me
25) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Maysoon Zayid – The Palestine of Miniskirts and Tank Tops
26) Jadaliyya – 5 June – by Sherine Seikaly – The 1967 Defeat and the Conditions of the Now: A Roundtable
27) IMEMC – 5 June – 50 Years of Israeli Occupation a Shame for the International System: PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat
28) Palestine Square – 5 June – Fifty Years of Israeli Occupation
29) IMEMC – 6 June – Tracking the Trends of the Palestinian Cause Since 1967
30) Femenisting – 6 June – Today marks 50 years of the occupation of Palestine, hers why feminists should care.
31) ABC News – 6 June – by Sophie McNeill – Occupied lives: A day in the life of Palestinians living in the West Bank
32) Crikey – 6 June – by Antony Loewenstein – ‘The situation feels hopeless’: 50 years of Israeli occupation
33) Altnernet – 6 June – by Alex Kane – Israeli Companies Are Making a Killing off Technology Perfected Over 50 Years of Occupation
34) Al Jazeera – 6 June – 50 years Israeli occupation longest modern history http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/50-years-israeli-occupation-longest-modern-history-170604111317533.html
35) +972 Magazine – 7 June – by Jennifer Bing – After 50 years, military violence is the norm for Palestinian children
36) The Jewish News of Northern California – 7 June – by Rabbi David J. Cooper – Why I helped build a ‘freedom camp’ in the West Bank
37) NPR – 7 June – Robert Siegel interviews Raja Shehadeh about his memories of the Six-Day War and its lasting impact on the Middle East.
38) The National – 7 June – Landmines haunting Christian site in occupied West Bank – in pictures by Heidi Levine
39) The Courant – 7 June – by Sir Vincent Fean – Israeli-Palestinian relations on the anniversary of the Six-Day War
40) The New York Times – 8 June – by Nael Eltoukhy – The Arab Epics of 1967
41) Haaretz – 8 June – by Judy Maltz – A Surreal Visit to an Arab Israeli Town Straddling a Contested Border for the Last 50 Years
42) +972 Magazine – 8 June – by Noam Sheizaf – The settlers’ goal is not the settlements
43) The Nation – 9 June – by Omar Barghouti – For Palestinians, the 1967 War Remains an Enduring, Painful Wound
44) The New Yorker – 9 June – by Yousef Munayyer – Reframing the 1967 war – http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/reframing-the-1967-war
45) BBC – 9 June – by Paul Adams – Six Day War: Six ways the conflict still matters
46) Jadaliyya – 10 June – Fifty Years of Occupation: A Forum
47) IMEMC – 10 June – Israel Stealing Assistance for Palestinians, says UN
48) +972 Magazine – 10 June – by Gershon Shafir – Israel: State of denial
49) The Independent – 11 June – by Ruth Kedar – I’m a 90-year-old woman who has lived in Israel for 50 years – here is what I think about Israeli settlements
50) +972 Magazine – 11 June – by Iris Hefets – Palestinians are the glue that holds Ashkenazim and Mizrahim together
51) UNRWA – 12 June – Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General on Half a Century of Occupation of the Palestinian Territory
52) BBC – 13 June – Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim visits West Bank
53) +972 Magazine – 14 June – by Ala Hlehel – Bloated Time and the Death of Meaning
54) Haaretz – 20 June – by Nir Hasson – 50 Years After Six-Day War, East Jerusalem’s Palestinians Remain Prisoners in Their City
Peace deals/ Solutions
55) Alray – 5 June – Establishing Palestinian state on 1967 lines in the key to stability: Palestinian presidency
56) France 24 – 5 June Six-Day War: 50 years on, Israeli-Palestinian divide wider than ever
57) UN News Centre – 5 June – After 50 years of Israeli occupation, ‘now is the time’ to create Palestinian state – UN chief
58) Ma’an – 6 June – Rights groups denounce 50-year Israeli occupation as ‘ugly,’ ‘festering wound’
59) Sputnik News– 6 June – Netanyahu says Israel will keep military control of West Bank in any case
60) Sputnik News – 6 June – Six Day War 50n years on : Mideast Peace only begins when Israeli occupation ends.
61) The Palestinian Information Center – 6 June – by Ramzy Baroud – The Unwanted ‘Bride’: Can the 1967 War Offer Opportunity for Peace?
62) +972 Magazine – 6 June – by Dahlia Scheindlin – Fifty years of opposition
63) DW – Video 7 June – DW’s Dana Regev and Yasser Abumuailek say that no political deal will be reached without a compromise on Jerusalem.
64) The Spectator – 7 June – by Stephan Daisley – When will the Six-Day War finally end?
65) Ma’an – 7 June – Knesset calls for permanent annexation on 50th anniversary of the occupation
66) The Palestinian Information Center and Middle East Monitor – 7 June – by Hossam Shaker – What the Palestinian people should forget
67) The National – 8 June – by Sharif Nashashibi – After 50 years of occupation, one state in Palestine is the only solution
68) +972 Magazine – 10 June – by Jeff Halper – Ending the occupation isn’t enough
69) +972 Magazine – 13 June – by Michael Shaeffer Omar-Man – Netanyahu vows to occupy the West Bank forever
70) +972 Magazine – 23 June – by Avi Dabush – Want to end the occupation? Start talking to settlers and Mizrahim
Propaganda/Language use
71) +972 Magazine – 4 June – by Gil Gertel – Don’t blame the education system for Israel’s occupation denial
72) Electronic Intifada – 6 June – by Ali Abunimah – How Tel Aviv LGBTQ film fest serves Israeli state propaganda
73) Fair – 7 June – by Adam Johnson – On 50th Anniversary of Israeli Occupation, Palestinian Opinions Largely Ignored
74) Al-Monitor – 8 June – by Akiva Eldar – Learning the language of occupation
75) Counterpunch – 8 June – by Neve Gordon / Mark Levine – After 50 years, Time for a Paradigm Shift
76) Middle East Monitor – 9 June – Israeli politician calls on UN to stop using the term ‘occupation’
Pieces by Israelis and Israeli-Americans, which looked at the war and subsequent occupation from a variety of Israel-centric perspectives:
77) The New York Times – 4 June – by Michael B. Oren – Israel’s 1967 Victory Is Something to Celebrate
78) The Washington Post – 4 June – by Gershom Gorenberg – How occupation has damaged Israel’s democracy
79) Newsweek – 4 June – by Marc Schulman – Tel Aviv Diary: Where did the six day war leave us?
80) NPR – 4 June – Israelis Have Mixed Feelings About the 50th Anniversary of the Six-Day War
81) LA Times – 5 June – by Uri Dromi – 50 Years After the Six-Day War, Israel Should Pull Out of Most of the West Bank
82) Newsweek – 5 June – by Michael Oren – How the Six-Day War Safeguarded Israel as the Middle East’s Democratic Anchor.
83) The New York Times – 5 June – by Yossi Klein Halevi – Still Stuck Between May and June of 1967
84) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Sigal Samuel – How the Six Day War Changed Religion
85) The New Yorker – 5 June – by Bernard Avishai – How the Six-Day War Changed Israel’s Mind
86) NPR – 6 June – Israeli Novelist Highlights Lasting Consequences of Six-Day War
87) Chicago Sun-Times – 7 June – by Aviv Ezra – Israel Continues to Seek Mideast Peace 50 Years After Six-Day War
88) The New York Times – 7 June – by Ronen Bergman – How the KGB Started the War That Changed the Middle East
Opinion pieces written by Americans (other than Israeli-Americans or Palestinian-Americans)
89) The Atlantic – 2 June – by Aaron David Milller – The Myths About 1967 That Just Won’t Die
90) The New York Times – 2 June – by Bret Stephens – Six Days and 50 Years of War
91) The New York Times – 2 June – by Nathan Thrall – The Past 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next
92) Miami Herald – 2 June – by Lawrence Grossman – In Spring of 1967, Israel Proved It Was Here to Stay
93) CNN – 3 June – by Aaron David Miller – America’s Half Century of Failure in the Middle East
94) Daily News – 4 June – 50 Years and Six Days: How the Mideast Has and Has Not Changed
95) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Dov Waxman – How “Israelotry” Became an American Religion
96) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Gary Burge – Evangelical Zeal for 1967 Wasn’t Really About Jews
97) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Amber Taylor – Should Mormons Take Sides? With Whom?
98) The Atlantic – 5 June – by Hussein Ibish – The Crisis of Arab Nationalism and the Rise of Islamism
99) The Atlantic – 6 June – by Michael Koplow- The Six-Day War Was a Step Backward for Zionism
100) Boston Globe – 7 June – by Jeff Jacoby – Israel’s Victory in Six-Day War Astonished the World
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