In mid-July, more than a month after the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) convened the PLO Central Council in Ramallah. The meeting began at dusk in the hall of the famous muqataa in the presence of a few (...)
It may already be too late for Israelis and Palestinians to be able to reach an agreement using the present format of negotiations - or rather non-negotiations. The methods attempted by the sides thus far, and which, for a moment, seemed as if they (...)
