Source: www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/why-palestinians-should-support-normalization-with-israel Mohammed S. Dajani, the Weston Fellow at The Washington Institute, founded the Wasatia movement of moderate Islam and previously worked as a professor of political science at al-Quds University in Jerusalem. Why Palestinians Should Support ‘Normalization’ with Israel September 16, 2016 Also available in العربية An interview with peace […]
Oslo, 20 Years Later By URI SAVIR Published: August 29, 2013 | New York Times TEL AVIV — In May 1993, I was the first Israeli to begin formal negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which resulted in the Oslo peace accords signed later in 1993 and Oslo II […]
Why the army and the Shin Bet are proving humiliatingly incapable of putting a stop to the plague of ‘price tag’ Jewish extremist attacks on Muslim, Christian and Jewish targets By Mitch Ginsburg – June 19, 2013, 6:50 pm, in: The Times of Israel Several hours after a “price tag” […]
Pro-Israel group’s primer on West Bank settlements shows just how disastrous they are The Israel advocacy ‘David Project’s’ primer on Israeli settlements, aimed at campus activists, avoids inflammatory language, but it cannot escape the glaring conclusion: Settlement policy is Israel’s Achilles heel, and no amount of discussion and review will […]
Gershon Baskin, Israeli Activist, Explains Truce Plan Given To Ahmed Jabari Before Gaza War www.huffingtonpost.com – Posted: 11/18/2012 1:36 pm EST Updated: 11/18/2012 1:36 pm EST Gershon Baskin is the founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, an NGO and think tank established in 1988 to pursue a two-state […]
19th June 1967: Israel’s Peace Plan At the end of the Six Day War Israel controlled wide tracts of territory, and someone had to decide what to do with them. Israel’s Cabinet first discussed the question at length on June 18-19th, a week after the war. The minsters decided the […]
By Yaakov Lozowick I know, I know, I keep saying this blog is dormant, but apparently it isn’t fully dead. Anyone who deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict will probably have come across the nasty four-map series purporting to show how Israel is eliminating Palestine step by step. Recently some fellow in […]
From Elder of Ziyon: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.nl/2012/09/side-by-side-democratic-and-republican.html I made this as fair as I could, trying to find the best correspondence between respective statements and taking out some of the partisan rhetoric. Democratic Platform Republican Platform Israel President Obama and the Democratic Party maintain an unshakable commitment to Israel’s […]
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/east-side-story/when-politics-become-an-olympic-sport-1.453919 Palestinian officials are speaking the language of war at the same time that their security forces are acting strongly against anyone who might target Israelis. By Avi Issacharoff | Jul.27, 2012 | 1:21 AM Palestinian Olympics president Jibril Rajoub recently sent a letter to the International Olympics president Jacques […]
(photo: Al Arabiya) By Ehud Yaari and Eyal Ofer January 6, 2011 Since Israel’s August 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, Hamas has evolved from a relatively small movement into a well-funded conglomerate. Instead of being crippled by sanctions and siege, the organization has found ways to surmount early difficulties — such […]