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...able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But we can no longer fixate upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military figures have affirmed the latter. If these are the conditions that Israel has long awaited, why is there no peace...
...record-high number of petitions include two proposed amendments to the state constitution, which state officials said cannot appear on the ballot before...
...peace process has not yet begun. The Palestinians have accepted the Jewish state. Now it's the Israeli's turn to accept a Palestinian state. Until the entire Israeli government indicates a willingness to do so, we must oppose the occupation. We can do this by supporting peace movements within Israel--and by crying out against each and every injustice of the two-year intifada...
Proposals to support abortion rights and measures calling on the state to share revenue with local governments were among the nine new initiative petitions submitted yesterday to Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly's office...
...Massachusetts Teachers Association also said it filed more than 90,000 signatures for a constitutional amendment to provide funds through taxes to guarantee equal educational opportunity across the state...