JERUSALEM: Dear President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu,
Welcome home. You both did a fine job at the UN and represented the cause of your peoples' struggle for existence and peace with great honor. You can both claim victory and come home (...)
JERUSALEM: Dear President Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu,
Welcome home. You both did a fine job at the UN and represented the cause of your peoples' struggle for existence and peace with great honour. You can both claim victory and come home (...)
JERUSALEM: We, the people of Israel, need to stand up and declare — yes we won, we withstood the world, we are stronger than all the powers of the world combined. Now let's stop wasting our precious resources on settlements
Let's face it, the (...)
JERUSALEM: We, the people of Israel, need to stand up and declare – yes we won, we withstood the world, we are stronger than all the powers of the world combined. Now let's stop wasting our precious resources on settlements.
Let's face it, the (...)
JERUSALEM: November 6, 2012 – that's the date when Barack Obama will stand for election for a second term. By November 2011 he will already be deeply involved in campaigning and most of his attention will be focused on Middle America and not the (...)
JERUSALEM: November 6, 2012 — that's the date when Barack Obama will stand for election for a second term. By November 2011 he will already be deeply involved in campaigning and most of his attention will be focused on Middle America and not the (...)
JERUSALEM: November 6, 2012 – that's the date when Barack Obama will stand for election for a second term. By November 2011 he will already be deeply involved in campaigning and most of his attention will be focused on Middle America and not the (...)
JERUSALEM: Too much of what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generated by the constant repetition of truisms that fit the justifications of one side’s explanations. Too few of us bother to weigh the possibility that (...)
JERUSALEM: Too much of what is commonly known about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generated by the constant repetition of truisms that fit the justifications of one side's explanations. Too few of us bother to weigh the possibility that there (...)
JERUSALEM: It was never really about the timing. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s apology to US Vice President Joseph Biden enabled the Tel Aviv University speech to conclude the visit on an up note. The ice-cold water from Washington came only (...)
JERUSALEM: It was never really about the timing. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu s apology to US Vice President Joseph Biden enabled the Tel Aviv University speech to conclude the visit on an up note. The ice-cold water from Washington came only (...)
JERUSALEM: Thirty-nine young people from Gaza applied to attend a peace education workshop sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) that was held this past weekend in a school in Beit Jala. Thirty-five of them (...)
JERUSALEM: Thirty-nine young people from Gaza applied to attend a peace education workshop sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) that was held this past weekend in a school in Beit Jala. Thirty-five of them (...)
JERUSALEM: Not one country in the world recognizes our capital, Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel. Even the United States footnotes the following on the State Department Web page: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950. The US, like (...)
JERUSALEM: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has issued a presidential decree that elections will be held in January. This followed his decision to sign the Egyptian plan for intra-Palestinian reconciliation, knowing that Hamas would (...)
JERUSALEM: We still have no real idea of when or what President Obama will present as an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. In the meantime, the Prime Minister s special emissary, Yitzhak Molcho, is trying to reach some understandings with the US (...)
JERUSALEM: The Obama road show has come and gone. Now it s time for the DC crowd to produce its plans for peace-making. The Middle East can t wait; if there s no progress, there will be regression toward violence. There is no status quo in the (...)
JERUSALEM: US President Barack Obama's Cairo speech and subsequent remarks by him and other senior US officials have made it clear beyond any doubt that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is two states for two peoples. There is no (...)
JERUSALEM: Is the new [Israeli] government on a collision course with the United States? It would seem so. President Barack Obama and his secretary of state have let Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu know in no uncertain terms that the (...)
JERUSALEM - Danny Atar and Kaddoura Mousa, two relatively unknown people, have made great strides on the road to peace and could go much further if their governments would only stop interfering. Atar is the head of the Gilboa Regional Council, (...)
Reaching a peace agreement by the end of the year seems almost impossible. The violence and the rage on the streets of both Israel and Palestine is once again in full gear. Israel killed more than 100 Palestinians in the last operation in Gaza - (...)
Israel does not negotiate with terrorists. This truism is one of the biggest spins in the history of spinning. Israel has always negotiated with terrorists and will continue to negotiate with them as long as we continue to cherish (Jewish) human (...)
JERUSALEM: For 60 years, Palestinian and Arab leaders have been lying to their people. Creating and sustaining the lie that the Palestinian refugees of 1948 would return to their original homes and lands makes it almost impossible for President (...)
The public mood regarding the US-sponsored peace summit is quite negative. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are devoting time and energy to reducing expectations out of fear that the summit may not produce the agreement necessary to enable a (...)
Throughout the summer months, the drums of war have been banging on both sides of the Golan Heights. Military experts assert that neither Israel nor Syria have any real interest in beginning a war at this time. The main fear has been that some kind (...)