[rad-green] Not Peace, But Apartheid: A Brief Response to Trump Plan -- Hagai El-Ad, Exec Director, Israeli human rights org B'Tselem

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Not Peace, But Apartheid: A Brief Response to the Trump Plan

by Hagai El-Ad
[image: Trump and Netanyahu shaking hands in front of American and Israeli
flags]

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What has changed today? The reality on the ground is already one of full
Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is a reality of one,
inherently undemocratic, state. And so, the main change today is that
Israel and the Trump administration are taking a step further in laying
bare their intention to perpetuate this reality. This clarity significantly
reduces the gap between the situation as it is, and the euphemistic terms
used to describe it.

What hasn’t changed today? Tomorrow, there will still be 14 million people
living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, five million of
them Palestinian subjects who have no political rights. And all of us here,
in one way or another, will remain under the rule of the same government in
Jerusalem, a government that works relentlessly to advance the supremacy of
one people at the expense of the other, while continually trampling its
rights underfoot.

And the future? What the Palestinians are being offered right now is not
rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of
marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts. But, the painful facts
of today give rise to hope for the future, the only future that can
genuinely offer peace. A future not based on supremacy for some and
oppression for others, but on full equality, liberty, dignity, and rights
for all.

That day will come.

*Rabbi Lerner's Book Talks*

Meanwhile, we want to remind you of opportunities to invite your friends to
hear Rabbi Michael Lerner speak in various locations beginning tonight,
through April. You can find all the information at www.tikkun.org/lj
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*Tonight, Wednesday, January 29th*, 7:00pm at Magers and Quinn in
Minneapolis (3038 Hennepin Ave)

*Thursday, January 30th*, 6:00pm at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago
(5751 S Woodlawn Avenue) (
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*Sunday, February 2nd*, 12:30pm at Swords Into Plowshares Peace Center and
Gallery in Detroit (33 E. Adams St.)

*Sunday, February 2nd*, 3:30pm at Birmingham Temple Congregation for
Humanistic Judaism in Farmington Hills, MI (28611 W 12 Mile Rd)

*Monday, February 3rd*, 8:00pm, at Books and Books in Coral Gables, FL (265
Aragon Ave)

*Thursday, February 13th* in Phoenix, AZ

First Lecture: Lessons from 53 Years of Social Justice Activism, 1:00pm to
2:00pm (Temple Solel, 6805 E McDonald Dr, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 ) (
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Second Lecture: Revolutionary Love, 7:00pm to 8:30pm (Temple Chai, 4645 E
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*Thursday, April 23rd* at 6:30pm at Open Center (22 E 30th St, New York)

Please spread the word and let your friends know!!

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*Hagai El-Ad*, is the Executive Director of the Israeli human rights
organization B'Tselem.

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