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Fathom Highlight | Two interviews with MK Ayman Odeh and Yossi Kupperwasser / 8 August / 2017

Our Fathom Highlight this week is two new interviews. First is MK Ayman Odeh, the leader of the Joint List – the third largest parliamentary bloc in the 20^th Knesset – who speaks about the political and social aspirations of the Arab minority in Israel, the difficult task of leading the four-party Arab coalition and his vision for a new Israeli politics of equality and social justice. Second is Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kupperwasser, former director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, who challenges the idea that Israel is no longer committed to the two-state solution, pointing instead to some central features of ‘the Palestinian narrative’ as the main obstacle to peace.

Our Voice of the Week is the Middle East Institute (MEI) panel discussion with Tareq Baconi (al Shabaka), Lara Friedman (FMEP), Christopher McGrath (UNRWA), Natan Sachs (Brookings), and Paul Salem (MEI) on ways to mitigate the political and humanitarian problems in Gaza, 3 August 2017.

Our Image of the Week is participants in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on 3 August 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel.

‘The Zionist Left needs to understand that change is impossible without us’: an interview with MK Ayman Odeh

by Ayman Odeh

21 per cent of Israel’s citizens are Arab-Palestinians. Since 2015 the leader of the Joint List – an alliance of four Israeli political parties representing this national minority – has been Ayman Odeh. A political visionary who is fond of quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Odeh argues in this interview with Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben-Dor for a new politics of change in Israel. ‘Were the government to pursue peace, democracy, and social justice, and treat the country’s Arab citizens...

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‘We have to share the land somehow. But for peace, the Palestinians must change their narrative’: an interview with Yossi Kuperwasser
by Yossi Kuperwasser

Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser was chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence, and until recently, director general of the Ministry of Strategic...

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