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May 25, 2024, 1:26 PM

The war in Gaza and anti-Semitism in Europe

Incidents of anti-Semitism – physical assaults, insults and threats in the media, desecration of places of worship and Jewish cemeteries – are increasingly in the news in several countries across Europe. In France, statistics released by the government indicate...

Jan 16, 2024, 12:52 PM

War and peace in Israel and Palestine

At the onset of a new year wars are escalating into an orgy of brutality, producing more and more civilian victims, devastating their places and sources of livelihood. We see it in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine now...

Oct 20, 2023, 12:04 AM

Israel in Gaza an exit strategy for the day after

Israel, its government and civil society, devastated by the murderous aggression of Hamas, must now deal with dramatic emergencies: how to react militarily against Hamas and Islamic Jihad armed groups; how to act with effective deterrence against Hezbollah's aggressive...

Aug 10, 2023, 9:49 PM

The occupation regime threatens Israeli democracy

Only the end of the 56-year occupation of the West Bank, the birth there of a Palestinian state in good neighborly relations with Israel and the partition negotiated with that state of the land between the Jordan and the...

Jan 31, 2023, 10:54 AM

Israel and Palestine: conflict and coexistence

Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer, argued in a commentary a few years ago that to put an end to the conflict gripping the two peoples a political agreement that would resolve the key issues - borders between the...

Jan 28, 2023, 7:34 PM

Neither a state of the Jews nor a state of the Israelis

“Will we then have a theocracy? No: faith makes us united, science makes us free. We will by no means allow the theocratic ambitions of some of our rabbis to take hold: we will be able to keep them...

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Giorgio Gomel is an Italian economist, formerly Chief International Economist at the Bank of Italy. He is one of the founders of JCall Europe - an association of European Jews committed to end the occupation and come to a 2-state solution. He currently also serves as president of Alliance for Middle East Peace Europe (www.allmep.org)