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Mahmoud Abbas: No Peace Talks Until Israel Freezes Settlement Construction

Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Settlements in Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel-Palestine, Palestinian Territories, Abbas, Israel, Israeli Settlement, World News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that peace talks with Israel will not resume until Israel completely freezes construction in the ...

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Does "Urging Israel" Amount to "Change We Can Believe In"?

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Terrorism, Fatah, Hamas, Obama Mideast Trip, Joe Biden, Sheikh-Jarrah, Race, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Jerusalem, Middle East, Avigdor Lieberman, Racism, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Al Jazeera, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Expressing disappointment and calling on Israel not to repeat its actions is ineffective, so when will America's policy change from a slap on the wrist to a handcuff to international law?

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Hamas: PA Is Threatening to Arrest Our West Bank Leaders

International Middle East Media Center | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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Several legislators of the Hamas movement in the West Bank stated on Thursday that they received arrest threats from the Palestinian Security Forces, ...

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Gaza Tunnel Explosion Kills 7 Palestinians

Reuters | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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At least seven Palestinians were killed overnight when fuel exploded in a smuggling tunnel beneath the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Palest...

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US Palestinian Aid: $200 Million Transferred To Fix Budget Crisis

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — The United States has transferred $200 million to the Palestinian government to help ease a growing budget deficit, U.S. S...

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Settlers' Spin

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

Read More: Aipac, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Israeli Settlements, Occupied Minds, The Israel Project, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Settlers, Barack Obama, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Middle East, E-1, World News
Jamal Dajani

The number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, an area that Palestinians regard as the heart of their future state, is swiftly approaching half a million.

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The Evolution of the Acceptance of a Palestinian State

James Zogby | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

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James Zogby

It is useful to trace the evolution of the acceptance of a two-state solution in our political discourse -- recalling, as we do, how difficult it was just a few decades ago to support Palestinian rights.

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No Way Out: I'm Trapped in Gaza

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

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Hani Almadhoun

I am being told that it will be "unlikely" for me to make my way out of Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli-Egyptian siege that has closed borders on every front. Gaza is the largest open air prison in the world.

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Netanyahu's Two-State Goal?

Saree Makdisi | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

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Saree Makdisi

Netanyahu's speech marked both the definitive end and a symbolic return to the beginning of the two-state solution as that hapless notion has been peddled since the Oslo Accords of 1993-95.

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The United Nations Kangaroo "Investigation" of Israeli "War Crimes"

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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Alan Dershowitz

Richard Goldstone knows that unless his report condemns Israel, at least as forcefully as it condemns Hamas, it will never be accepted by the UN Human Rights Council.

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Neda in Palestine, Sentenced to Die Alone

Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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Max Blumenthal

When the mainstream American press chose to broadcast the Neda video, it highlighted the hypocritical attitude towards Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation on a daily basis, and who often meet the same fate as Neda.

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Palestinian State Institutions In 2 Years: Prime Minister

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Institutions for an independent Palestinian state should be up and running within two years, Palestinian Prime Minister Sa...

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Palestinian Boy Hanged By His Family For 'Collaborating With Israel': Police

Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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15-year-old Palestinian Raed Sawalha was found hung from a tree in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, having been accused by his own family of consorting...

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The Cartographic Crux of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Green Line, 1967-Green-Line, Israeli Politics, Hertz, Israel, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

The fraught political realities on the ground that are captured in the mapmaking process lie at the very heart of the problem.

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During His Trip to Egypt, Obama Should Visit Gaza

Medea Benjamin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Medea Benjamin

The issue that is really at the crux of the tensions with the United States is the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine, and what many perceive as a one-sided U.S. policy in support of Israel.

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Hamas, Fatah Battle Kills 6, Bloodiest Factional Violence In 2 Years

AP | ALI DARAGHMEH | Posted 07.01.2009 | World

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QALQILIYA, West Bank — Forces loyal to the moderate Palestinian president stormed a Hamas hideout in the West Bank and set off a fierce gunbattl...

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Obama, Abbas Meeting Will Discuss Plans For Pan-Arab Peace With Israel

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Gingerly trying to advance Mideast peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged Israel to stop settlement construction in t...

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New Hamas-Free Palestinian Government Sworn In

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday swore in a new government comprised mainly of members of his Fatah Party, b...

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Obama: Israeli Settlements "Have to be Stopped"

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

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Robert Naiman

Without a settlement freeze, there can be no progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Will Netanyahu Buckle Under Obama's Pressure

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.18.2009 | World

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Where is Israel after all these concessions? It is arguably the most hated and most vulnerable nation on earth.

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Jerusalem: The Pope in Search of Christians

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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Jamal Dajani

Before arriving in the region, the Vatican billed the visit as spiritual rather than political. In fact, from day one his trip was mired with political controversies.

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Palestinians Mark 'Nakba' 61st Anniversary

Al Jazeera | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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Thousands of Palestinians have marked the 61st anniversary of the "Nakba" or "catastrophe," in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displa...

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Mousawa: An Alternative to a Two-State Solution

Jamal Dajani | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem, Middle East, Iran, Aipac, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, Israel, Barack Obama, World News
Jamal Dajani

A movement that began amongst Palestinians with Israeli citizenship is now making its way to East Jerusalem and to the West bank. It is called "Mousawa" which means equality.

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AIPAC Agrees To Funding, Talking With Hamas

TAPPED | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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Coming off their national convention, AIPAC -- the main pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States -- has made a remarkable concession....

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A Waltz with President al Bashir of Sudan

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Sabra and Shatilla, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Serbia, Hezbollah, Sabra-and-Shatilla, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Waltz With Bashir, Hamas, Ratko Mladic, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Arabs, Sudan, Janjaweed Militia, Darfur Sudan, Israel, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Typically, talking about a crime by an Arab leader in the Middle East, one will almost always end up talking about other concerned parties. It seems to be a special built-in ability to auto-dodge accountability.

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