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right of return
Dr. Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz: The War for the Palestinian Right of Return
Shmuel Rosner
April 28, 2020
Sisters from a prominent Sephardic family to get Spanish citizenship
Roberto Loiederman
June 29, 2016
It’s been more than 500 years since Yosef Elyashar, a rabbi in the Spanish town of Híjar, was expelled from his home country.
King of Spain honors Sephardic Jews in ceremony recognizing citizenship law
Jewish Journal
November 30, 2015
Spain’s king honored Sephardic Jews at a ceremony recognizing a new law that confers citizenship on the descendants of those banished during the Inquisition.
New law offers Sephardim right of return to Spain
Roberto Loiederman
July 23, 2015
On June 11, the government of Spain unanimously passed a law that attempts to right a historic wrong.
One-ton Palestinian key headed to Berlin festival
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2012
A one-ton steel key symbolizing the Palestinian \”right of return\” is to be shipped from a West Bank refugee camp to Berlin as part of a citywide art festival.
Prime Minister Fayyad: ‘Unity and Non-violence’ requisites for statehood
Jewish Journal
November 29, 2011
With skepticism rife over a Fatah-Hamas rapprochement and the Hamas demand to replace him, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the man credited with energizing the movement toward statehood and the man Western governments want holding the PA’s purse strings, discusses the pending issues with Friedson Friedson, President and CEO of The Media Line news agency, at his Ramallah office. Below is the first of two sessions between Prime Minister Fayyad and Ms. Friedson.
It’s time for words to lead the peace process
Judea Pearl
November 20, 2008
Let us be frank: The current stalemate is ideological, not physical, and it hangs on two major contentions: \”historical right\” and \”justice,\” which must be wrestled with in words before we can expect any substantive movement on the ground.
Top Ten Signs we’re making progress towards peace
Douglas Bloomfield
April 11, 2008
Since none of them is offering any evidence to back up their optimism, here is my Top 10 list of signs of progress to look for in your cup of Mideast tea leaves to help you judge whether this peace process is serious:
What Israel means to me
David Mamet
March 14, 2008
Israel is a free society. The rights of the minority, of the oppressed, indeed, of the criminally foolish are protected. Mr. Chomsky would be as free in Israel to pronounce this nonsense as he is in the United States. Were he to move to the Arab world, he would be persecuted as a Jew (as, indeed, he might be in France). And were he, God forbid, persecuted, Israel would offer him a home, under the Right of Return. That is what Israel means to me.
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