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Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on Mapping Palestine
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, Founder and President of the Palestine Land Society, spoke at the Jerusalem Fund in Washington today about “Mapping Palestine: For its Survival and Destruction”: Video streaming...
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“Tell him to come in”: Mahmoud Abbas once (twice) gave refuge to Ismail...
Today, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the Hamas leadership are supposed to sign a reconciliation accord initialed by all 13 Palestinian factions in Cairo yesterday. This comes...
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Israeli Defense Minister Barak Expresses Regret over Egyptian military deaths...
Acknowledging the significance and importance of the moment, after a chaotic day of ambushes, fighting and hot pursuit in the area of Eilat on Thursday — and some 48 hours of subsequent reprisal...
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Dennis Ross: Palestinians should set up their own stone quarries in the West...
In an otherwise uninteresting commentary published as an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Dennis Ross, adviser to several American presidents on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, suggested that …...
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Mahmoud Abbas DRAFT letter: “The P.A. lost its raison d’etre”.
The Times of Israel today published in English, here, the full text of the DRAFT letter that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been preparing to send to Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu...
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Day 7 of IDF Operation Pillar of Clouds [a/k/a Defense Pillar]
Day 7 opened with reports from international journalists in Gaza saying it had been an unusually quiet night — but the IDF reporting some 180 overnight strikes. The rocket fire from Gaza resumed just...
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Can Mahmoud Abbas negotiate on equal basis with less fluent English?
The language in which Israelis and Palestinians negotiate is: English. The original language of documents signed during the Oslo process is: English. This brings up a delicate but extremely important...
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Olmert’s 2008 proposal on Palestinian refugees – to take a total of 5,000...
Of course Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could not have signed on to this stingy proposal when it was tabled by Israel’s then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in their last meeting on 16 September 2008....
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Kerry says Tony Blair has 300 businessmen planning to raise $4 billion for...
After the build-up that led to the Swiss-based World Economic Forum’s session at Jordan’s Dead Sea on Saturday and Sunday — it was hard to understand why, at least during the speeches of Palestinian...
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Meanwhile, in Jerusalem [last night]
“The absence of peace is, in fact, perpetual war, even if it’s low intensity. Are we ready? Do we want to live with a permanent intifada?” — John Kerry on 26 May 2013 Not long after John Kerry said...
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Despite opposition, a Palestinian delegation will go to Washington on Monday...
After hours of deliberation, Israel’s Cabinet voted on Monday to authorize the release of 104 of the longest-held Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. There was a delay of one and half hours before...
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Qaddura Fares: many things are not clear about the pending prisoner release
A slightly different version of this story appeared earlier today on +972 Magazine, here. **************************** “No, I am not satisfied”, said Qaddoura Fares, crisply, commenting on the Israeli...
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Do the Americans know how to do peace talks? Can they get a final status...
Well, they have tried it before — the Annapolis process, Wye River, Camp David July 2000 and let’s not forget former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker announcing “here’s my phone number, call me when...
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