Mediterraneo, Società Civile, Politica e Interculturalità
“Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us”. When the German Chancellor stated it during the last G7, held in mid-June, he was proud of himself and proud of being a pro-Israel supporter whatever it happens. Those words, however, were probably the clearest statement ever by a European politician of this century which…
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Years ago, a Palestinian writer, we were in Ramallah, told me that every time Israel comes with good news, you have to worry about the bad news hidden behind it. She had given me the keys to understanding how things work, and I didn’t realise it. It was 2005, Arafat had disappeared, and the second…
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Israel’s biggest challenge is how to cope with ghost people. The Palestinians, the Palestinian question have been removed since several years from Israel’s political agenda and from the majority of its citizens’ collective soul. Palestinians are simply ghost people. I saw it with my eyes. There are highways connecting Israeli cities with Israeli settlements located…
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LIBERATING PALESTINE/ISRAEL: DECOLONIZATION, NOT CONFLICT MANAGEMENT. Originally published on Raseef22, June 29, 2021. غاصت عقولنا بدويّ الحرب مجدداً. الصراع من أجل القدس، من أجل الضفة الغربية، من أجل غزة، ومن أجل شوارع إسرائيل نفسها، هي ليست صراعات مستقلة بل صراع واحد على جميع الأراضي بين نهر الأردن والبحر المتوسط. يتطلب تفسير أحداث الأسابيع الماضية المتسارعة…
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On May 2008, I was invited by the Turin Book Fair to join a debate on Jerusalem. At the speakers’ table, there were as well a couple of Italian journalists who had just published a stylish book on the Holy City. At the end of the debate, I asked one of them: “When were you…
Continua a leggereMi avevano detto, se vuoi sapere del movimento per la giustizia sociale in Israele, non guardare solo a viale Rothschild, scrivi dei Mizrachim, gli ebrei provenienti dai paesi arabi. Così li ho cercati, ed ho trovato due donne che dedicano loro la vita intera. La madre di Yael Ben Yefet è originaria dell’Iraq, e lei…
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Gianluca Solera 