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“Death to traitors”
“Our people reject the Oslo Accords”
WOL is arguing that Palestinians never wanted normalization of relations with Israel, and, in fact, it is appropriate to kill Palestinians that do want normalization with Israel. I don’t think this is doing them any PR favors.
A New Palestinian Offer for Peace With Israel
“We want cooperation with Israel,” says Sheikh Wadee’ al-Jaabari, also known as Abu Sanad, from his ceremonial tent in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city located south of Jerusalem. “We want coexistence.” The leader of Hebron’s most influential clan has said such things before, as did his father. But this time is different. Sheikh Jaabari and four other leading Hebron sheikhs have signed a letter pledging peace and full recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Their plan is for Hebron to break out of the Palestinian Authority, establish an emirate of its own, and join the Abraham Accords.
The letter is addressed to Israeli Economy Minister Nir Barkat, a former mayor of Jerusalem, who has brought Mr. Jaabari and other sheikhs to his home and met with them more than a dozen times since February. They ask him to present it to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and await his reply.
“The Emirate of Hebron shall recognize the State of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people,” the sheikhs write, “and the State of Israel shall recognize the Emirate of Hebron as the Representative of the Arab residents in the Hebron District.” Accepting Israel as a Jewish state goes further than the Palestinian Authority ever has, and sweeps aside decades of rejectionism.
The letter seeks a timetable for negotiations to join the Abraham Accords and “a fair and decent arrangement that would replace the Oslo Accords, which only brought damage, death, economic disaster and destruction.” The Oslo Accords, agreed to by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1990s, “have brought upon us the corrupt Palestinian Authority, instead of recognizing the traditional, authentic local leadership.” That would be the clans, the great families that still shape Palestinian society.
August 27, 2025
Today, we’re exploring solidarity, looking at reality TV in literature, learning about ice cream truck turf wars, and more!
On Lit Hub dot com:
“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” On Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine. | Lit Hub Politics
Hannah Berman considers The Compound, Small Game, and what literary depictions of reality TV teach us about the ethics of the edit. | Lit Hub Criticism
Sahar Mustafah on how the ADL has “rigorously weaponized Jewish victimhood in order to foment fear” in American classrooms. | Lit Hub Politics
Glory Edim explores Jessie Redmon’s literary legacy and her forgotten novel, Plum Bun. | Lit Hub Biography
Peter Mishler talks to poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney about maximalism, unexpected audiences, and her collection Joy Is My Middle Name. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Examining settler colonialism, the illusion of progress, and what actually resulted from the Oslo Accords. | Lit Hub History
On the legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, murdered by the NYPD for resisting eviction: “Gender and femininity have never shielded Black women and girls from unfettered anti-Blackness or police violence.” | Lit Hub Politics
Amanda Uhle explains using “a consummate image of my childhood self” as the cover of a memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
“The big glass pyramid amused Mona.” Read from Thomas Schlesser’s novel Mona’s Eyes, translated by Hildegarde Serle. | Lit Hub Fiction
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“There is a kind of Lockwood lens that brings into focus the improbable and hilariously bizarre features lurking in the midst of ordinary life, which a different writer might prefer to smooth over for realism’s sake.” Alexandra Schwartz profiles Patricia Lockwood. | The New Yorker
Jonathan Karp is stepping down as the C.E.O. of Simon & Schuster. | The New York Times
On Betar, Canary Mission, and the practice of doxxing students and faculty who engage in Pro-Palestine actions on university campuses. | The Baffler
Hannah Weber on creativity, AI, and Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers. | Words Without Borders
From turf wars to ephemeral treats, Olivia Potts looks at the very weird history of ice cream trucks. | Longreads
Anthropic has settled its AI piracy lawsuit. | The Verge
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“Now that we are supervising, we know it’s going to humanitarian causes,” the source said, paraphrasing Netanyahu.
ARTICLES FROM SEVERAL JEWISH MEDIA OUTLETS STATING NETANYAHU'S FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR HAMAS
-> "How the Netanyahu Government Pushed Back Against the High Court to Allow Cash Transfers to Hamas
The government's allegation that a 2018 High Court ruling foiled the struggle against Hamas is abject hypocrisy": https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-netanyahus-government-pushed-back-at-the-high-court-to-allow-cash-transfers-to-hamas/00000195-2c03-df9b-afdf-bcab5de40000
-> "A Brief History of the Netanyahu-Hamas Alliance
For 14 years, Netanyahu's policy was to keep Hamas in power; the pogrom of October 7, 2023, helps the Israeli prime minister preserve his own rule": https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/0000018b-47d9-d242-abef-57ff1be90000
-> "For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from": https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
-> "Netanyahu: Money to Hamas part of strategy to keep Palestinians divided
“Now that we are supervising, we know it’s going to humanitarian causes,” the source said, paraphrasing Netanyahu.": https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-to-hamas-part-of-strategy-to-keep-palestinians-divided-583082
-> "The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas
From sabotaging Oslo to funnelling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict. Even after Oct 7, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy.": https://www.972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-october-7-adam-raz/
Today, November 4th 2023 marks 28 years since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin will always be best remembered for making a permanent peace between Israel and Jordan and for his part in the Oslo Peace process that set up the Palestinian Authority. He was murdered at a peace rally by an ultranationalist Israeli who felt Rabin had sold out Eretz Yisrael. In Rabin's pocket a blood soak copy of the popular Israeli folk song "A Song for Peace" was found.
Shalom, Haver
Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1994.
The trio was awarded the Peace Prize for "their efforts to create peace in the Middle East." In September 1993, the parties had signed the "Oslo Accords," in which "Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace. Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. Then, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be held."
The Accords were derailed in November 1995, when Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist and Benjamin Netanyahu (an outspoken critic of the peace agreement) was elected Prime Minister.
