This piece isn't one of them...perhaps he's tossing in the towel?

"...Zionism was a movement for rescuing persecuted Jews. They didn’t come here because they were eager to come to a land that was not sown".

WOW! These horrible words may have been spewed by Obama, the most anti-Israel U.S. President ever. These despicable words may even have been spewed by Tibi, the Israel bashing Arab M.K....But they were spewed by Yemini, a notable Israeli leftist "journalist".

These terrible words explain a lot. They explain why leftists, like Yemini, can't stand strong for Israel. Deep inside their sick minds, they don't believe this land is ours! They believe Jews have no claim on Israel, other than refuge from the Holocaust.

In fact, Zionism is about reclaiming lands that have ALWAYS legitimately belonged to Jews. Had Jews NEVER been persecuted, our claim on all of Israel would be just as strong. Yemini's sick words dramatize the need for a patriotic revolution in Israel. Israel needs our media, judiciary, academia, security establishment, I.D.F. and government full of strong patriots who ASSERT our rights and feel no need to defend anything.

The first is that Ahed Tamimi is now 17 yo, not 16 anymore.

I see no justification for giving these children credit for whatever valid arguments may be held by the Palestinian people, but juxtaposing their cases with the larger political issues does just that. In a civil society, if you attempt to beat, hit, kick or otherwise assault other individuals, including law enforcement officials or soldiers, you have committed a crime. These girls have allegedly violated this principle of law and will have to answer for their actions, even as minors. Clearly though, they have done nothing to earn a place on the world stage to advance any political position. Any suggestion that their actions can be equated with a larger political position maintained by the Palestinian people gives them a platform which they do not deserve and have not earned. They are thugs, perhaps budding terrorists, no more. Providing them with this platform, and suggesting that their actions are somehow justified and globally important, enables their lawlessness and terrorist agenda. That, to steal the author's word, is an act of foolishness.

2 Open the gate
3 Push her through
4 Close the gate
...
Repeat every time she shows up anywhere in Israel proper and WB.

The rest of her kind will get the message.

"...but the images produced by 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi and 11-year-old Janna Jihad—and the images dispatched to the world from Hebron’s Shuhada Street—are much stronger."

Dude, we're not dealing with images here, we're dealing with a punk who thinks she's cool attacking someone. Let the simple-minded look at images. The rest of us are looking at the facts.

been besides slapping Jews in the face with a weep,also unpunished,nice looking.

butt in her face) is what has brought this “hero” forth!
Arabs are NEVER right, even when they tell time of the day.

"The two girls have already defeated us on new media"
May they continue with this media 'defeat', just not in reality.

"They don't have to be Anne Frank to do that".
This girl, if not being abused by her parents brainwashing her to approach armed "child killing" Israeli soldiers can have every chance in life, something Anne Frank didn't, for she was murdered by child killing Nazi's....without approaching or beating them and without abusive parents brainwashing her to do so.

"The Jews came because they were forced to flee".
No, they came because they came home to their own ancient home....the only one they have.

The so called Palestinians have nothing to look for in Judea & Samaria for they don't belong there. They, as their history & rights are as truthful as the Grimm fairy tales.

The parents of these to girls belong in jail for child abuse!

I want to thank them for making our task much easier.

my expression of appreciation is not facetious oe disingenuous. It is genuine and sincere.

But does that advance the fundamental goal

How to acheive the establishment of a secure, sovereign, independent and contiguous Palestinian State alongside Israel within mutually secure borders

A Palestine in two parts connected by a tunnel that cuts through Israel is a non starter. A country divided into two'statelets' in Gaza and the West Bank cant work economically, socially, politically.indeed at any level

But go back to basics...apply some algorythmic AI to try to find and configure the borders of a unitary and contiguous Palestine that includes a Med coastline...and ask it to come up with the ideal solution….

And it does

Has the solution been so obvious weve been too blind to see?

This article is wrong on nearly everything, from Zionism to the Holocaust to the Tamimi's claims and objectives. The author is using the occasion to go after settlements that have nothing at all to do with the issue and the trial. Articles like this are not helpful and should not be appearing on Y-Net. The author reinforces the myth of the brutal occupation.

The term “Zionism” was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum. Its general definition means the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.

It was not escaping the Holocaust. It was about returning home.

Also, how can not having Jews live in Hebron be good for peace? Appeasement and racism by the Arabs doesnt promote peace. Having 1 racist Arab Palestine is enough. Why create another? It wont create peace. It just promotes more racism.

This arab terrorist and all other arabs and leftists to be deported from the land of Israel.

2 Open the gate
3 Push her through
4 Close the gate
...
Repeat every time she shows up anywhere in Israel proper and WB.

The rest of her kind will get the message.

I disagree. This is certainly not one of those times. The writer seeks to place the ills of society solely upon one group, "settlers", thereby exculpating the ones who, if given the chance, would be slapping, or worse, his face in Tel Aviv.

Why has the writer glossed over 1920,1921,and 1929. In Jerusalem,Jaffa, and Hebron respectively. Palestinian Arabs attacked and killed Palestinian Jews for no other reason than they were Jews. There was no established Atate of Israel, there was no occupied land. It was just vile hatred of Jews. All under the watchful eye of the Grand Mufti.
It is a pattern, it is the same today.

but obviously too much for the right-winger zealots to handle

And a wrong one.

This issue of the Palestinian girl is a lost issue for Israel because whatever we do will be wrong. The only thing we can do is temper the damage and try not to repeat it. As if the soldier had reacted and hit her, which is what these people were looking for today, things would be 100 times worse. You have to be smart, the soldiers who are in this area should know that they will be used permanently and they should be trained for these contingencies but above all you have to muñirlos pepper gas. How different it would be if the soldier at the first blow had sprayed her with gas. It would be over quickly and a person crying rubbing his eyes and seeing nothing has very little epic and glorious and is not lethal.

Nobody in Israel will agree to your arguments.
Keep the same cap and nobody will read you again.

In our foolishness and helplessness, we have created a justification for the Palestinians.

This problem after 1967 war shouldn't be left any doubt for ownership , avoiding all the futile discussions.

The Third Reich wanted all non-Aryans, they called untermenschen, deported! You apparently are a precocious student. Hasllulia!

She didn't go to Tel Aviv to attack the soldiers. It was the soldiers who violated her home,her school, her neighborhood and home!

As we used to say in the South (of the USA) "that dog won't hunt." Terrorism starts with the acceptance of little violent acts. We need to ditch our concern for what the world thinks. If this little, vicious Arab girl does something really violent in 3 or 4 years from now, what will you say then? "oh, I didn't see that coming?"

These children were weaponized by the anti-israel propaganda orchestrated from Moscow.

They need education, in enlightened civil affairs.

Most Israeli towns/villages and population in Judea and Sumaria are on the green line or very close.
Most of the Jewish population are peaceful and dont break any laws, you are inciting hatred towards Jews living over an imaginary line based on lies. Shame on you.

Palestinians are stealing more Israeli public land than individuals stealing private land. Most land in Judea and Sumeria is not privately owned.

I support private land rights on both sides. You seem to deny Jewish private rights over an imaginary line. Speaking of facts.

Jews returned to their homeland whose basis was in places like Hebron.
If Mandate was followed through the Holocaust would have been very different.

Arab terrorism against Jews has been continuous for centuries on the land.

Sadly Dershowitz is part of the problem. The continuous denial of Jewish religious rights and private property rights not to mention the right to all the land according to REAL international law. Pretending for decades that the Palestinian myths are true and there is any chance of peace with a one of the most antisemitic population in the world and propaganda taken straight from the Nazi play-book. This is not an exaggeration but the reality.

Another liberal Jews who seems blind to reality over what they wish would be true. At least he seems to have good intentions, but good intentions have led to great horror in the world. He voted Obama and defended him. Another well meaning Jew in denial. He has been used as a token Jew.

Unfortunately it will fall on deaf ears here. The meaning of Zionism has been perverted by the pro-settler movement and right-wing politicians. All common-sense has been lost in the process.

This will be the real progress. And we will continue to welcome our Jewish cousins to live amongst us as equals...not as Goyem!