Middle East Peace Talks

Israeli PM Reportedly Agrees To Border Negotiations In Dramatic Policy Change

AP | IAN DEITCH | Posted 08.02.2011 | World

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JERUSALEM — In a dramatic policy shift, Israel's prime minister has agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the cease-fi...

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Israeli President Dismisses Palestinians' UN Plan

AP | By DAN PERRY and JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 06.16.2011 | World

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli President Shimon Peres urged a resumption of Middle East peace talks Thursday, dismissing the Palestinians' plan to instead ask t...

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Don't Talk, Do Something! Palestinian/Israeli Unilateralism as Legitimate Negotiations

Marc Gopin | Posted 06.15.2011 | Politics

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Much is being made of Palestinian unilateralism recently, and President Obama and his advisers seem authentically perturbed by the unilateral march to...

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Carney: Obama's Proposal "Not Some Radical New Departure" From Past

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.20.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney struggled Friday to put a positive spin on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejection ...

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Obama Speech Breaks Rhetorical Ground But Unlikely To Bring Common Ground to Israel, Palestinians

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 07.19.2011 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The headlines made it clear. From New York to Tel Aviv, President Obama's call for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestini...

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Obama Will Announce Billions In Economic Aid To Support Middle Eastern Democracy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.18.2011 | World

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will announce plans Thursday to funnel billions of dollars in economic aid to Egypt and Tunisia as part of a broa...

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Mideast Quartet Strikes Modest Blow for Peace

Alan Elsner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Overshadowed by the crisis in Egypt, the Middle East Quartet has taken an important step to try to revive the seemingly moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

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Palestinians Reject Talks Without Settlement Halt

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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CAIRO — The Palestinian president is sticking to his refusal to resume peace talks with Israel unless it freezes all construction of Jewish sett...

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U.S. Drops Demand For Israeli Settlement Freeze

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has abandoned attempts to persuade Israel to slow West Bank settlement activity, officials said Tuesday, dea...

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Israel's False Sense of Invincibility

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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The military and economic prowess currently enjoyed by Israel has led to a false sense of invincibility and a belief that the status quo between Israelis and Palestinians is sustainable -- yet it is not.

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Senate Again Undermines Obama's Middle East Peace Efforts

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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It is hard to get excited about defeating Republican challengers when incumbent Democrats embrace the same right-wing foreign policy.

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Reconciling Israel's Security With Palestinian Statehood

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Whereas the Palestinians must understand that unless Israel feels secure, there will be no independent Palestinian state, similarly, Israel must recognize that a two-state solution must mean an end to Israeli occupation in any form.

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West Bank Mosque Torched By Arsonists

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Arsonists torched a mosque in a West Bank village Monday, scrawling "revenge" on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of t...

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Israel Settlement Freeze Ends, Construction Resumes Across West Bank

Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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(AP) JERUSALEM — The Palestinian president said Monday he would wait at least a week before deciding whether to quit Mideast peace talks, giving...

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Reasonable Criticism vs. Prejudice

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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It is completely uncalled for to try to tar critics of the current Israeli government as anti-Semites. However, such criticisms do turn into a prejudice when they are completely one-sided.

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Historic Concessions Required from Both Sides

Jonathan Peled | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Israelis can't make painful sacrifices unless Palestine offers something more than the unwilling, forced acceptance of Israel that all-too-often masquerades as "peace".

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In Mideast Peace Talks, it's Time to Lower the Temperature

Alan Elsner | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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If they're serious about making peace, this would be a good time for the leaders start talking quietly. In the past, nearly all significant progress in Mideast peace talks has been accomplished in private.

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The Obama Administration, Iran and 'Middle East Peacemaking'

Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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The "relaunch" of the Middle East peace process is, at best, an Arab-Israeli peace process. And, to be even more accurate, the process is really the highly conditioned Israeli-Palestinian "track" of old.

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Hillary Clinton: Mideast Peace Talks May Be 'The Last Chance For A Very Long Time'

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Friday, warning the negotia...

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Obama: Good for Israel, Good for the United States

Seymour D. Reich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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All Americans, especially Jews, who want to see a secure Israel, a viable Palestinian state alongside it, a stable Middle East and a respected United States should support Obama's policies regarding Israel.

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The French Connection and Middle East Talks

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Absent at the Middle East stakeholders dinner hosted by Obama was France. When there is a chance of securing a new equilibrium in the Middle East, France should be a core partner.

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Building on Today's Success

Moran Banai | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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It will have to be the Israeli and Palestinian leaders themselves who find a solution that they can both agree to. Along the way, they will need significant support from their allies.

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Netanyahu: Time For Direct Talks With Palestinians

AP | SYLVIE CORBET | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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PARIS — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday it's time to move to direct talks with the Palestinians and that he will raise t...

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Russia Urges U.S. To Take Active Role In Mideast Peace Process

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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ANKARA, Turkey — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the United States on Wednesday to actively work to achieve peace in the Mideast with th...

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Hillary Clinton: Mideast Peace Talks Back On

AP | FOSTER KLUG | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the Mideast peace process will get back on track next week, though not t...

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