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Peace Process

Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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Gaza, Iranian Rockets and J Street

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Peace Process, Goldstone Report, World News
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea

Even the most apolitical tourist in Israel cannot escape noticing the contrast between a visible show of opulence there and an inner bitterness and doubt about the possibility of peace.

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Peace Punk'd by Netanyahu, Where's Ashton Kutcher?

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Palestine, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, World News
Ahmed Rehab

Netanyahu's address is a step backwards and represents the very barriers that have made peace historically elusive.

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High Expectations for Obama's Speech in Egypt

James Zogby | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Egypt, Middle East, Obama Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Obama Mideast Trip, World News
James Zogby

When Obama travels to Egypt, he will face a nation hardened in its negative view of the US and its role in the region, and unconvinced that this or any American president can or will change policy.

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Mind-State Solution

David Suissa | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jerusalem, Peace Process, Peace Now, Jewish, West-Bank, Palestinians, Settlements, Hamas, Americans for Peace Now, Israel, World News
David Suissa

If any party should be selling peace, it's Israel. Yet, incredibly, it's always the reverse: Palestinians are selling a peace they can't deliver, while Israelis are buying a peace that doesn't exist.

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Israel's Election Day: Not a Change We Can Believe In

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Israel Elections, Middle East Peace Process, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Tzipi Livni, Knesset, Palestinians, Israel Prime Minister, Binyahim Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

All three of Israel's candidates for Prime Minister belong to an era that should be receding behind us, not popping up in our ballot boxes again and again.

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Will Obama be a Peacemaker?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Peace Process, Military Industrial Complex, President Obama, War, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Martin Luther King Jr., Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barack Obama, Military Spending, American Imperialism, US Military Spending, Israel Gaza, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Clearly, what the world desperately needs from America and its new president is a peacemaker, not another warrior.

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Statement on Gaza From California Scholars for Academic Freedom

Mark Levine | Posted 02.03.2009 | World

Read More: Peace Process, Occupied Palestine, Israel, Gaza, Clinton Obama California, Occupied Territories, World News
Mark Levine

Press Release January 3, 2009 California Scholars for Academic Freedom Condemn Bombing of Gaza Educational Institutions Contacts: Sondra Hale, 3...

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Brzezinski Says to Joe Scarborough: Read up on TABA, You Might Learn Something...

Steve Clemons | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Brzezinski, Peace Process, Joe Scarborough, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gaza, Middle East, Israel, Taba Negotiations, American Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski spent some time educating the nation -- and Joe Scarborough -- about the way to frame the current Gaza tragedy and what needs to be done.

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Happy New Year from Israel's Radical Right

Daniel Levy | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peace Process, Arab-Israeli Peace, Israel, International, Politics News
Daniel Levy

Israelis awoke today to very scary news. Hebrew University Professor and peace activist Ze'ev Sternhell received minor injuries after being the target of a pipe bomb attack.

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What Obama Missed in the Middle East

Ali Abunimah | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peace Process, Obama, Israel, Barack Obama, Palestinian, Politics News
Ali Abunimah

When I and other Palestinian-Americans first knew Barack Obama in Chicago in the 1990s, he grasped the oppression faced by Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

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