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Bernie Sanders and the French initiative
By raising the need for the US to play an even-handed role to find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Sanders has introduced a new critically important paradigm that the next...
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Listening to the other half: personal narratives of Israeli and Palestinian...
A conflict cannot be solved- and genuine peace cannot be reached, if the voices of one half of the population is not listened to on an equal level of the other half. An initiative called Political is...
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Moving beyond the Quartet
The Arab Peace Initiative (API) should not be considered as a mere device for directing the negotiating process, but rather as the central framework for achieving a comprehensive peace. Suggested...
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A movement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What is needed now is a mass mobilization of the people, led by major political figures who are committed to finding a solution to the conflict and campaign day-in and day-out to raise public awareness...
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UNSCR 1325 in practice – Israeli and Palestinian women speak up
In a world where women’s voices often are left out in matters of war and peace, one initiative is channeling the voices of Palestinian and Israeli/Jewish women to hear how their lives have been...
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Incentives and peace – part 1
Unless distrust, insecurity, and illusions are first addressed, no incentives – however sweeping and compelling – will motivate Israel and the Palestinians to make the critical concessions needed to...
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Incentives and peace – part 2
Unless distrust, insecurity, and illusions are first addressed, no incentives – however sweeping and compelling – will motivate Israel and the Palestinians to make the critical concessions needed to...
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The settlements – self-entrapment of existential proportions
Israel’s continued settlement activity – whether retroactively approving ‘unauthorized’ outposts or advancing plans for new units as was recently announced – represents yet another nail in the coffin...
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‘Hell is truth seen too late’
After seventy years of continuing violent conflict, the time has come to end the hellish conditions that the Israelis and Palestinians have created for themselves before they are ultimately consumed by...
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Statesmanship versus demagoguery
Netanyahu will do well to think whether he wants to be remembered as the statesman who realized Peres’ dream, or the demagogue who led his people astray and shattered their millennium-old aspiration to...
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Lieberman – demonstrate your credibility
It takes a strong and determined leader to go against the current, and only by engaging Lieberman will the Palestinians be able not only to test his credibility, but change the discourse of a seven...
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to where?
Every day that passes, the conflict becomes more intractable and creates new facts on the ground that may well be irreversible. A two-state solution remains the only viable option as long as Israelis...
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Ensuring the success of the French initiative
The French Initiative to convene an international conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on January 15th is a momentous opportunity to offer a new approach that would mitigate the hostile...
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Trump: “close the open hand out of love”
Trump’s appointments, coupled with a campaign promise to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, may well translate to unfettered support for settlements and the annexation of more...
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The shortcomings of the International Conference for Peace
The conference for peace between Israel and the Palestinians initiated by the French government that took place on January 15 in Paris could have made a great contribution to the peace process not by...
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Relocating the American Embassy to Jerusalem
Relocating the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem unconditionally will be a de facto recognition of Jerusalem, east and west, as the capital of Israel. Since the Israeli government insists...
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There will be no Palestinian state under Netanyahu’s watch
If Trump is serious about his desire to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Israel’s own sake, he must demand that Netanyahu commit himself to create a Palestinian state not by simply stating so,...
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Trump and Netanyahu – embracing illusions, ignoring reality
What Netanyahu and Trump have demonstrated during their press conference was that both seem to revel in illusions where they find a zone of real comfort, while leaving Israelis and Palestinians to an...
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Can Israel fight a war on three fronts? A nightmarish scenario
Due to the increasing Iranian threat, Netanyahu should do everything in his power to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians now in the context of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. In so...
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Israeli and Palestinian women must raise the banner of revolt
After 70 years, the tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must come to an end. Israeli and Palestinian women have the power to raise the banner of peaceful revolt, and ought to use it now to...
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