Ahmad Tibi's Dec. 28 observations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ("The tragedy of a two-state solution," Commentary) could use less emotionally induced mendacity and more hard evidence for his claims. It's not just that he plays fast and loose with the facts, but that he often ignores them in making his argument against the Israelis. What the Israelis want is peace, security, preservation of cultural sites and acknowledgment that it is a Jewish state (the only one). What Mr. Tibi offers instead is no substitute for facts and reason.
In a classic trial of the "occupied" by the "occupier", a Tel Aviv court on Thursday convicted imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghuthi on five accounts of murder. This trial epitomises the Israeli occupation and persecution of the Palestinians. It is an illegal and immoral trial from the beginning to the end. Marwan Barghuthi and his tormented people ought to try this diabolic occupation regime, not the other way around. Calling the trial "farcical" and "theatrical", [Ahmad Tibi] accused Israel of turning logic upside down.
As an American Jew, I can't thank your paper enough for having had the courage and integrity to publish Ahmad Tibi's Tuesday column, "The tragedy of a two-state solution" (Commentary). The single-state solution - insisting that Israel abandon its Jewish supremacist laws and become a genuine egalitarian democracy for all its citizens - is the only real solution to that 63-year nightmare in the Middle East. The idea of one ethnic group having more rights than other ethnic groups is the very antithesis of democracy.
.... (227) See DK (2001) 3558 (Knesset member Ahmad Tibi); DK (2001) 3560 (Knesset member Michael Eita...
In "Israeli extremism exposed" (Opinion, March 12) writer Ahmad Tibi just puts a new lead on charges he made nearly a year ago in a New York Times Op-Ed column, "A Harsh Reality for Palestinians" (April 6, 2009). Mr. Tibi again claims Israeli law discriminates against Arabs in favor of Jews, and he draws parallels with "Jim Crow discrimination" and "apartheid South Africa." Yet he's a deputy speaker of the Israeli Parliament and has to concede that Israeli Arabs "are able to vote and hold office." They also can serve as Supreme Court judges, senior diplomats, ranking military officers and, at least once, Miss Israel. Jim Crow? Apartheid? I don't think so.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is toying with the Obama administration, professing an interest in peace while doing his utmost to stymie a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is no way for Israel to treat its leading ally. Nearly two years into office, Mr. Netanyahu is running circles around President Obama and encircling Jerusalem with still more illegal settlements. Palestinians are rapidly abandoning hope for a viable and independent state. Mr. Netanyahu's requirements are calculated to be impossible for Palestinian leaders to accept. The Israeli prime minister is always prepared to put in place another demand - such as the self-effacing requirement that the Palestine Liberation Organization recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Meanwhile, he uses delay...
...Ahmad Tibi is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and deputy...
With little surprise, I learned of the recent refusal of Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to meet with members of the U.S. Congress, whose institution provides Israel with the economic wherewithal to occupy the West Bank. Through astonishing ineptness, rather than principled policy, Israel is risking the anger of its bankroller. Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III recently noted, "United States taxpayers are giving Israel roughly $3 billion each year, which amounts to something like $1,000 for every Israeli citizen, at a time when our own economy is in bad shape and a lot of Americans would appreciate that kind of helping hand from their own government." Palestinian citizens of Israel scarcely see the American largesse, and Mr. Baker's numbers are somewhat off, but ...
...Ahmad Tibi is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and is dep...
COMBATANTS FOR Peace began its U.S. speaking tour in New York City on Jan. 16-the one-year anniversary of the death of Bassam Aramin's 10-year-old daughter, Abir, who was shot by an Israeli border policeman as she was walking home from the Anata School for Girls. Noting that there is a tendency to attribute the failure of the peace process to extremists, Elhanan pointed out that extremists did not institute the occupation or build settlements or erect a separation wall. In almost every field of life in Israel, Tibi continued, there are no equal rights between Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis.\n According to Tibi, Israel claims the law is for "security reasons" and because of the "demographic threat"-meaning the increasing number of Arabs and decreasing number of Jews.
...Knesset Member Dr. Ahmad Tibi Sees a "Possible Peace". "How could somebody ...
JERUSALEM - Israeli naval ships seized control of a protest flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 people and sparking widespread international condemnation. Israeli television, citing foreign media reports, said the death toll could be as high as 16.
..."It's a crime," said Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ahmad Tibi. "Israel feels it lives above international l...
Like a particularly dirty cloud of smog, the Pollard case has been following us for decades, polluting everyone who comes in contact with it. Many of the young men and women who worked on behalf of Jonathan Pollard in the various political frameworks were not even born in his finest days, while the malicious people who handled him with terrible cynicism have retired, died, or become an important minister in Israel's cabinet. In between, one simple, bitter and precise fact has been forgotten: Jonathan Pollard is the Americans' Mordechai Vanunu. In principle, there is no difference between them, except perhaps for the fact that Vanunu did what he did out of deep, if controversial, conviction, while Pollard received money, some say a great deal of money, for his "values system.
... forbid, that if Pollard is kosher, MK Ahmad Tibi is also kosher, perhaps even very kosher. If ...
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