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Trump Takes on the Palestine-Israel Problem
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Trump Takes on the Palestine-Israel Problem
May 11, 2017

On 3 May, the US president welcomed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas into the White House and on 22 May, Donald Trump will be going on his first state visit to Israel. His desire to break the impasse of one of the most complex and age-old international conflicts – between Palestine and Israel – is palpable. Virtually every American administration has had its own Middle East initiative…

Is Netanyahu trying to kill Russian summit initiative?
September 17, 2016

Angry responses are being heard from within the Palestinian Authority (PA) regarding the video Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released Sept. 9 in which he claims that the Palestinian leadership is demanding a Palestinian state without Jews and that that is equivalent to ethnic cleansing…

Is Netanyahu trying to kill Russian summit initiative?
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Palestine’s Crisis of Leadership: Did Abbas Destroy Palestinian Democracy?
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Palestine’s Crisis of Leadership: Did Abbas Destroy Palestinian Democracy?
September 5, 2015

The crisis of leadership throughout Palestinian history did not start with Mahmoud Abbas and will, regrettably, be unlikely to end with his departure.  Although Abbas has, perhaps, done more damage to the credibility of the Palestinian leadership than any other leader in […]

Israel-Palestinian Talks: Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim
August 3, 2013

After two days of intercourse in Washington between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry emerged like a benevolent matchmaker satisfied that his efforts at brokering a marriage of sorts had at last borne fruit… Every White House administration from President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s through to the present has stepped forward periodically to herald an imminent «just peace» between Palestinians and Israelis; and every time, cruelly, this promise comes to nothing. Well, actually, it does come to something: the territories and rights of the Palestinians are continually ravaged and diminished as the violations of the Israeli state inexorably expand…

Israel-Palestinian Talks: Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim
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Security Dilemma in the Middle East
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Security Dilemma in the Middle East
December 3, 2012

The symbolic victory of Palestine at the UN was met by the Israeli announcement next day on 30 November of building another settlement consisting of 3,000 new housing units in the West Bank. Despite protests from the Palestinians, the Israeli government is determined to go ahead with the project. The project will likely create obstacles against communication between northern and southern parts of the West Bank. The point is: how does this symbolic victory will help Palestine in face of its apparent weakness before the might of the Israeli armed forces…

Prospects of ‘Palestinian Spring’ and the United Nations
September 25, 2011

While putting the case for Palestinian statehood at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2011, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised the emotional pitch and argued, ‘the Arab Spring must be followed by the Palestinian Spring.’ Recalling late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Abbas exhorted the members of the international body to realize ‘inalienable rights of the Palestinian people,’ and help fulfill the Palestinian dream to be 194th member of the United Nations Organization (UN)…

Prospects of ‘Palestinian Spring’ and the United Nations
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