United States Try to Revive Peace Talks
The Obama Administration proposes concessions to Israel in order to revitalize the moribund peace talks.
Palestinians
Inside Hamas’ Negotiating Strategy
The United States need to bring Hamas into the Middle East peace process.
Mahmoud Abbas Speaks at the United Nations
In his General Assembly address, the Palestinian Authority President appeared to have little faith in the ongoing negotiations with Israel.
Hamas: “Pay Attention To Us”
In a strange and twisted way, Hamas’ latest terrorist attack on the West Bank may show a willingness to negotiate.
Same Old “Peace Talks”
Sure, the peacemaking environment is better today than it was over the past decade. How can it get any worse?
Talking of Peace in the Middle East
Former British prime minister Tony Blair appeared on ABC’s This Week to talk about bringing the Israelis and Palestinians together.
Window of Opportunity for Peace?
One again an American president is flying in the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a peace.
Time for Realpolitik in the Near East
The Obama Administration’s Middle East policy appears to have swung from the slightly idealistic to the definitively realistic in recent weeks, with the opposition continuing to denounce the supposed naiveté of the president’s intentions. Barack Obama began his offensive in Cairo, Egypt last year where he called upon the Muslim world to end “the cycle […]
Economic Peace for Palestine
The economic factor tends to be overlooked in discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It shouldn’t be.
Israel Is Not an Isolated Problem
David Petraeus asks that the Palestinian territories be placed under his Central Command.
Obama on the Middle East: “Really Hard”
The president admits he may have underestimated the challenges of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Mitchell: Peace in Two Years
Where last month the European Council decreed that there can only be a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Jerusalem as capital of both nations, American envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell is more nuanced, stating that Israel “annexed” East Jerusalem so that “for the Israelis, what they’re building in, is in part […]
The Peace Abbas Rejected
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed the peace plan that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in September of last year. “Abbas did not respond, and negotiations ended,” according to Haaretz. The peace plan encompassed an exchange of land, with Israel gaining Jerusalem and a little over 6 percent of […]
Jerusalem Capital of Two States?
After conferring for two days in Brussels the foreign ministers of the European Union called for “the urgent resumption of negotiations that will lead […] to a two-state solution with the State of Israel and an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.” With a soon-to-be-appointed […]
Is Obama Failing in the Middle East?
Even The New York Times admits the president’s credibility in the Middle East has been diminished.