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Report on an art exhibit in Tel Aviv...
Platform of the Organization for Democratic Action
Toward election to the 18th Knesset
ODA (DA’AM in Arabic), a party uniting Jews and Arabs, seeks to move society toward socialism. To this end we maintain connections with workers’ movements and labor unions throughout the world. We present an alternative both to predatory capitalism and to religious fundamentalism.
1. The Palestinian question
ODA seeks real peace, to be based on Israeli withdrawal from all the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem. We believe that the political conflict cannot be solved without the establishment of a sovereign, independent Palestinian state. The current preoccupation with "shelf agreements," which include Israel's annexation of settlement blocs, foils any chance of reaching a sustainable peace. More...
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Letter to our readers
After 14 years of publishing Challenge, the editorial board and I have decided to continue the magazine online and to cancel the bimonthly print edition. In October we notified our subscribers of this, and my mailbox has been flowing ever since with letters of sorrow but of understanding too. So far all have decided to contribute the remainder of their subscription fees to our online production. More...
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Iran and America: The Will to Change
By Yacov Ben Efrat
wo weeks have passed since the Iranian elections of June 12, 2009, and the storm aroused by the putative result refuses to die. What's happening there is not a democratic disagreement, as the Emir of Qatar described it, but a conflict between two well-defined forces over the country's future. We cannot know who really won the election, but even supposing it was incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his "victory" has revealed a deep schism. The struggle concerns the nature of government in Iran, and the results of this struggle will extend much farther than the questionable election results. More...
A-Salaam Aleykom
by Yacov Ben Efrat
he war of civilisations which has horrified the world since the events of September 11th 2001 ended in a wave of Barack Hussein Obama's magic wand with the opening of his speech at the University of Cairo last week. The words A-Salaam Aleykom go far deeper than their literal meaning. They express reconciliation, recognition, humbleness, and especially, they go hand in hand with Islam and its holy book – The Koran. Obama has decided to fight fundamentalist Islam with its own weapon, The Koran. He came to Cairo armed with verses from The Koran and their latest explanations proving that there is no reason for the schism dividing America and Islam. He came to win over the million believers who had supported Al Qaeda and who had reveled in the collapse of the twin towers. Obama succeeded.
Obama and Bibi: Political Divergence, Strategic Symbiosis
by Yacov Ben Efrat
rom the meeting between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on May 18, 2009, no wide-ranging agreement was to be expected. To judge from the public news conference, the encounter was a porcupine tango.
Obama for Change, Netanyahu for More of the Same
by Yacov Ben Efrat
arack Obama's first 100 days as US President show what a far cry he is from his predecessor. The changes Obama has wrought in this short period amount to a major divergence from American policy of the last eight years. The closing of Guantanamo and the absolute ban on torture are important trail markers on the new path the White House has chosen.
Abusive Employment Practices at the Israeli Antiquities Authority
by Erez Wagner
ozens working for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) at the archaeological site of Ras al-Amud near Jerusalem were summoned on January 8, 2009 by a representative of Brik, the personnel firm through which they were employed. He told them that all who had worked for more than nine months would not be hired in the future. Four days later, workers at the Um Tuba site, all Brik employees, were told the same thing. None received a letter of dismissal. This, it turns out, is standard procedure at Brik: verbal dismissals without warning.
War Crimes in Gaza
Exposed by the Guardian
by Yossi Wolfson
he going isn't easy for an army of war criminals in the 21st century. You can keep the media out of the war zone. You can requisition soldiers' cell phones before sending them into action. You can blur their faces and withhold their names. But it's hard, very hard, to conceal the results for long.
Israeli Arab women march through Tel Aviv demanding jobs
by Noah Kosharek
ozens of women, most of them Israeli Arabs, marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Sunday, calling on the government to find them jobs in agriculture.
