Video - Jeff on the Next Israeli Elections; Michael's July 4 Blog; "Can Hebrew Be Decolonized?"

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July 7, 2026

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Jeff Halper, of The One Democratic State Campaign Josef Avesar, of The Israeli-Palestinian Confederation

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Jeff argued that Israel's survival beyond the next elections is likely due to political deadlock and lack of alternative leadership, emphasizing that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be understood as settler colonialism rather than a traditional conflict. He explained that settler colonialism requires decolonization rather than negotiation, advocating for a one democratic state solution between the river and the sea. Josef proposed an alternative Israeli-Palestinian Confederation model that would create one government for all citizens, but the two participants disagreed on key aspects of governance and decision-making authority.

I Know Which One I'll be Focusing On!

"This week:

"America 250 years, built on the back of slaves and the murder of its indigenous inhabitants. 1000 days of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

"Which one we will remember this week will say a lot about us. But it also will say something about the power of myth, the power of the stories we tell ourselves.

"America, we’ve been taught, its origins in the search for religious freedom from a tyrannical ruler, hardscrabble pioneers settling an untamed wilderness, defending themselves against savages who had the temerity to protect their land and their way of life, rewarding the industriousness of those willing to work hard and risk, and a religion whose message was one of divine choseness, a mirror image of the biblical story now in this new land.

"And Israel, trying to convince itself – and its Zionist friends – that it was a “people without a land in a land without a people," that their eternal victimhood somehow grants them moral superiority and even more, political, economic, and otherwise impunity."