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... In Ashdod, the sensation travels on golden dunes that march up from the beach through a shimmering new city center and out to a crisp, clean perimeter marked by yet another row of splendid new high-r...
By Elad Dunayevsky, Geneva Initiative
18.8.2010
The following is a transcript of a short interview with Dr. Samih Shabib, Philosophy and Cultural Studies lecturer at the Bir Z
By Gershon Baskin, The Jerusalem Post 17.08.2010
Direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are likely to begin in the near future. The international community under the conductor’s
By Hussein Ibish, Middle East Political and Economic Institute 16.08.2010
Although, a very strong international consensus has emerged, over the past two decades, that the only practica
...ice, have produced just a partial removal of Israeli roadblocks, and a dirt road to the new Palestinian city planned for the West Bank. All the same, Israel, which was responsible for blockading Gaza,...
... Beit Jala, and other localities sprawling over the opposite hills near Bethlehem. Within the Jerusalem city limits defined by Israel’s leaders after the war, Gilo is considered by most Israelis...
By Ali Waked, YNet News 15.08.2010
The Palestinian government on Sunday published a report outlining its activity in the past year. According to the document, in the past 12 months the Palesti
...f the peace process through a comprehensive strategy. With the MEQ no longer insisting on strict reciprocity in the fulfilment of the Roadmap, the Fayyad-Plan with its clear deadlines could, for examp...
...y illogical for Israel to hang on to in the long-run. In the Holy Basin, David’s Citadel, the Old City and the area of land which stretches towards Mount Olives, a region where 40,000 people liv...
...r Palestinian civil control. The move would be meant to enable traffic between Ramallah and the planned city of Rawabi.
“We are weighing relaxing traffic [restrictions] in parallel wi...
... rid of Gaza via gradual detachment of remaining links. In their view, cutting off the water and electricity supply to the Strip would make Israel’s responsibility for Gaza disappear, with the S...
...by anyone who has labored at Israel-Palestinian peace. Israelis harbor suspicions -- fueled by the duplicity of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat and the proclamations of Hamas leaders -- that the Pales...
...e presidential retreat at Camp David was winding and narrow; it was dark, the way it doesn't get in the city. We had clearly missed a turn somewhere. I kidded Dennis Ross, the lead U.S. negotiator for...
...ever get used to. In fact, I remember when I first visited Jerusalem, I could wander through the Old City and haggle for some gifts to bring back to Michelle, or stand at the Wailing Wall, and peo...
...va Initiative offers a two-state solution, an exchange of territories, a special arrangement in the Old City of Jerusalem and the return of refugees according to an agreed-upon quota. It is hard to be...
... accommodate the major Israeli settlements; a shared Jerusalem, with Israeli sovereignty in the western city and in the Old City's Jewish quarter, and Palestinian sovereignty in the eastern city and t...
...ashed a real Palestinian “revolution.” It is a revolution based on building Palestinian capacity and institutions not just resisting Israeli occupation, on the theory that if the Palestini...
...coming under Palestinian sovereignty and Jewish neighborhoods coming under Israeli sovereignty. The Old City (including al Haram al Sharif) would come under Palestinian sovereignty with the exception ...
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26.06.2010
The Geneva Initiative held a training course in Ramallah focusing on capacity building. There were about 35 participants consisting of Palestinian university students an...
...stinian state and most of our resources are controlled by Israel: land, air, water, frequencies, electricity, etc. Palestinians need to have free access to human resources in order to be able to build...
...entation of the security responsibilities of the parties. This force must also have the mandate and capacity to “do the job” if the parties fail to implement those obligations. A reasonabl...
...cent [of] the general budget of the authority to Gaza, in Gaza. The salaries of the employees of electricity, water, fuel, education, health, we pay 58 percent of that....We don't want to punish the P...
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On June 3, the Geneva Initiative held a training course in Ramallah on capacity building and young leadership.
03.06.2010
The Geneva Ini...
... speakers addressed about 100 municipal officials, business leaders, and senior position holders of the city, outlining the prospects and perils of the peace process, and the different policy options ...
...s only the people on the spot. Now we are trying this with the Palestinians and it works. There was one city already handed over to the Palestinians, Jenin. If they will do that elsewhere we shall con...
By: Barbara Slavin, Foreign Policy 24.05.2010
George Mitchell, the Obama administration's special envoy for Middle East peace, plans to set a deadline for an Israel-Palestinian agreement, applying l
... symbolism behind.
First, the facts: Until the 1967 War, Jewish Jerusalem, on the west side of the city, comprised 9,390 acres, while Jordanian Jerusalem, on the east side of the city, comprised ...
...t to the Geneva Initiative's solution to issues related to Jerusalem, including arrangements in the Old City, Ma'aleh Adumim, and E1.
FM Espersen expressed a keen interest in the solution offered...
...ing are the questions and answers:
Q: Frankly, many Israelis doubt that the PA has a long term capacity to control and to sign an agreement with Israel and end the coup in Gaza.
Abbas:...
By: Hassan Al-Battal, Al-Ayyam Newspaper 28.04.2010
What will happen in two-three months? Not with regard to the new freeze (that hasn’t been announced yet), but to the international Israeli-P
...here in both East and West Jerusalem, this is not the case for the 270,000 Palestinian residents of the city. Most of West Jerusalem, like most of Israel, is "State Land" (in all, 93% of lan...
...r and former PA Minister, Sufian Abu Zaida, GI Signatory Col. (Res) Shaul Arieli and Members of Holon's City Council Doron Avital and Roi Cohen.
In the discussion on a permanent peace agreement, MK ...
...ring Israel's control of a "united Jerusalem" and establishing a solid Jewish majority in the city.
However, since the erection of the fence thousands of Palestinians have moved i...
...ith- Jewish neighbourhoods to be in Israel, Arab Neighbourhoods to be in Palestine; and finally the Old City under a joint management-sovereignty for both sides and the US.
About 67 per cent of I...
...e United Nations that is involved in the peace process. A subsequent speech by Obama in Jerusalem's Old City, addressed to all the people in the region and evocative of his Cairo speech to the Muslim ...
..., and both signing on to some sort of international agreement on how to share the holy sites in the Old City.
Third, Israel would return to its 1967 borders — before it captured East ...
...eferred to the relevant article in the Geneva Initiative and have endorsed it. Should the future of the city have been of real value to him, he would have asked President Abbas if the Jerusalem articl...
...s right-wing government still insisted that they would not change their policy of building homes in the city, including East Jerusalem, which Palestinians hope to make the capital of an independent st...
... Israel controls the international border crossings, central thoroughfares, air space, water and electricity, making it impossible for Palestinians to do basic things like building an airport or a roa...
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Dahaf Institute Poll: Positions of the Israeli Public more inclined towards a Peace Agreement than those of the Political Leadership
(Polls/Israeli Polls)
...hoods under Palestinian sovereignty and Jewish neighborhoods under Israeli sovereignty
• The Old City without sovereignty of either of the sides but co-managed by both sides and the United Stat...
...e Palestinian capital and, most likely, some form of international involvement in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Why the stir? Because to Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration, this al...
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Middle East Bulletin interview with Col. (Ret.) Shaul Arieli, GI Signatory
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...of the barrier there affect the situation in Jerusalem?
The area is south of Jerusalem and not in the city itself but everything is very tense and sensitive now. Any such act can lead to a dangerous...
...in the report as a final-status issue. However, the most contentious settlements in the vicinity of the city were considered, including Ma'ale Adumin, located east of Jerusalem and which, if annexed b...
...r both sides, and in many issues it is even unavoidable.
You cannot have two capitals in one city in Jerusalem without real ties of infrastructure, roads, electricity and so on. And even fo...
... the solution lies in Jerusalem and namely in the holy sites, which are located at the core of the old city. This Old City – according to Dr. Jubeh, is only one square Km, in which 39 thousand...
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On Thursday, February 4, the Geneva Initaitive headed down to the city of Dimona in the Negev where our representatives were hosted by Mayor Meir Cohen.
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Palestinian Peace Coalition-Geneva Initiative Hosts the Israel Project
(Events/Local Activities - 2010)
...delegation showed special interest on the issues of Jerusalem and the border, namely how physically the city can be divided.
Dr. Samih Abed, Former Minister of Public Works and GI Board Mem...
...ntatives from over 30 states and international organizations.
The conference was held at the Sheraton City Tower in Ramat Gan and was simultaneously translated to English.
Click here to view the c...
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Abbas: the way out of current impasse is a six month settlement freeze and announcement that borders of 1967 are basis of negotiations
(News Room/News - 2009)
...0,000 tourists, and this year there are 2 million tourists. There are no empty beds at any hotel in the city; therefore there are preparations to introduce one thousand, perhaps two or three thousand,...
...Security, which developed a map with a final border as part of the Geneva Initiative, said Israel's capacity to swap territory with a future Palestinian state is more limited than what Olmert reported...
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