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Article: Apartheid versus sumud.(View from Jerusalem)
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- New Internationalist
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- June 1, 2006
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This is, as they say, the crunch. This is the political moment all Israeli governments--all of them, Labour, Likud and 'National Unity'--have been working towards the past four decades of Occupation: the final push for an expanded Israel, the permanent foreclosure of any viable Palestinian state and a unilateral declaration that the conflict with the Palestinians is over. Indeed, it is the final taking of the entire Land of Israel between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River that Zionism has dreamed of for the past century.
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On the surface, Israel's election was humdrum, with none of the 31 parties running raising issues that ...