(SPME Editor’s Note: This Op-Ed is presented as a public service for discussion, analysis and reaction. It does not necessarily reflect any official position of the SPME Board of Directors.) THE two-state solution has welcomed two converts. In recent weeks,…
read morehttp://www.lizaswelt.net/2009/08/ganz-die-alten.html Als Shlomo Ben-Ami, ehemaliger israelischer Außenminister, im September 2001 in einem Interview mit der israelischen Tageszeitung Ha’aretz gebeten wurde, die gescheiterten Friedensgespräche von Camp David zu bilanzieren, an denen er beteiligt war, zog er unter anderem dieses Resümee: „Es…
read morehttp://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Tenured+radicals/1860217/story.html On the third of October 1980, a bomb exploded outside a Paris synagogue on the rue Copernic, near the Arc de Triomphe. None of the few hundred worshippers inside were seriously hurt but, outside on the street, three Frenchmen…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gold6-2009aug06,0,3778030.story The Islamic Republic has proved it only uses talks with the West as a delaying tactic as it relentlessly pursues nuclear arms. Only severe sanctions backed by military threat will have any impact. Writing From Jerusalem — Defying both…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418531712&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull The idea of gestures of ‘normalization’ from Arab states to Israel is a central component in the US administration’s plan for reviving the Mideast peace process. The notion represents a variant of the Oslo-style approach whereby a series…
read morehttp://www.hudsonny.org/2009/08/the-radicalization-of-fatah.php Many in Washington and some European capitals are hoping that the Fatah faction,which controls the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, is headed towardmoderation and reforms as it holds its sixth general assembly in Bethlehem this week. But on the eve of…
read morehttp://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=d83a4891-7fe8-4e83-88b0-5b9d9064aae8 Two Israeli writers caused a stir last week by calling on President Obama to speak directly to Israelis, similar to the way he has addressed populations from Cairo to Moscow. “Simply stated, take your campaign directly to the Israeli…
read morehttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/04/where_have_all_the_palestinian_moderates_gone In October 1999, while researching a book on Palestinian politics, I had coffee with then Palestinian Minister of Labor Rafik Natsheh on the patio of the InterContinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan. A member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903167.html ONE OF THE MORE striking results of the Obama administration’s first six months is that only one country has worse relations with the United States than it did in January: Israel. The new administration has pushed a reset button…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=3056&TTL=The_U.S.-Israeli_Dispute_over_Building_in_Jerusalem:_The_Sheikh_Jarrah-Shimon_HaTzadik_Neighbo The Sheikh Jarrah-Mt. Scopus area – the focus of a dispute between the Obama administration and Israel over building housing units in the Shepherd Hotel compound – has been a mixed Jewish-Arab area for many years. The Jewish population…
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