Geneva Initiative Annexes
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1. Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...   Now observing two and a half years without a single suicide bombing on their territory, with the economy robust and with souls a trifle weary of having to handle big elemental thoughts, the ...

2. Even when they gave, they didn't get
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...a state-in-the-making, subject to the agreed-upon road map to peace. But the recovery of the Palestinian economy, the improvement of security coordination as part of the war on terror and the operat...

3. The Implications of the Fayyad-Plan
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...ivate sector, the plan intends to develop a PA government less dependent on external aid and a Palestinian economy independent from Israel. With its focus on economics, it mirrors to a certain degree ...

...g young men and women into the battlefield, or we're making very consequential decisions about the world economy, where the answers are not always a hundred percent obvious, and you're making judgm...

5. The Real Palestinian Revolution
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...nstitutions not just resisting Israeli occupation, on the theory that if the Palestinians can build a real economy, a professional security force and an effective, transparent government bureaucracy i...

6. The fixation of power
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...an, Syria and Qatar, became a monopoly dominating every area of life in the Gaza Strip - the militias, the economy, public administration and health care.   Hamas is waging an all-out war on ...

7. GI hosts Dutch journalists at GI offices in Ramallah
(Events/Local Activities - 2010)
...s about many political issues, emphasizing the difficulties of discussing the development of a Palestinian economy while under occupation. He said, "How can we develop an economy while we are liv...

...t of the first Fayyad government, larger percentages believe conditions have become better in the areas of economy (47%), enforcement of law and order (57%), educational services (54%), and health ser...

9. Time for U.S. Middle East Peace Plan?
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...an markets. If that is to happen, this will have a significant effect of the viability of the settlements' economy in the West Bank.   There have been some U.S. critics of the Obama administr...

10. Fayyad's Road to Palestine
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...nd is focused on prosaic stuff like building institutions (police, schools, a justice system, roads and an economy) rather than exalted proclamations.   The program has secured explicit backi...

11. Beating the Mideast’s Black Hole
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...quitous Palestinian Authority police on the West Bank — and with building state institutions and the economy. He’s not interested in Palestinian “victimhood.” Narratives do not...

...the PA has initiated steps to try to remove goods manufactured in Israeli settlements from the Palestinian economy and to discourage or prevent Palestinian labourers from working on settlement constru...

...sible for Palestinians to do basic things like building an airport or a road network, and developing their economy.   But the biggest danger in unilaterally imposing moves rejected in negotia...

14. Driving Drunk in Jerusalem
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...r the West Bank; Netanyahu’s actual policies on the ground there have helped Palestinians grow their economy and put in place their own rebuilt security force, which is working with the Israeli ...

...bout three main causes that place a sort of low glass ceiling hindering the development of the Palestinian economy. First, the ban on Palestinian access to the Jordan Valley. Second, the ban on Palest...

...e need for the future state. Without that, the Palestinians would have very bad prospects to develop their economy, to prosper," the activist further argued.   Foqaha also explained that...

...xport to Europe or to the US. Of course, we can benefit here and there, but that is not significant to our economy.   What is significant to our economy and our stability is that the Palestin...

...e need for the future state. Without that, the Palestinians would have very bad prospects to develop their economy, to prosper.   We have close links in so many aspects: to a large extent we ...

19. The Visionary of the Palestinian State
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
... of armed gangs, establish rule of law, put an end to government malfeasance and establish a free and open economy. On the matter of funds, Fayyad asked that we trust him: the funds are going to be tr...

...ce, and legitimate business can prosper, rather than continuing to force people there to rely on the black economy, which only benefits Hamas. The situation, as it stands, benefits Hamas and hurts tho...

21. Ramallah's road map to statehood
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...ement. His reorganization of public services in the West Bank has encouraged something of a boom here. The economy is officially growing at 7 percent, and Fayyad reckons the real rate may be 11 percen...

22. Too big a risk
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
... they will be replaced by young and vigorous leaders who strive for peace as well as for law, order and an economy free of corruption. Perhaps I don't see these alternative leaders because they are cu...

23. September 2009 Poll Conducted by IPI
(Polls/Palestinian Polls)
...sions between Fatah and Hamas and the West Bank, still under Abbas’ control, and Gaza. Next came the economy, insecurity and crime, Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and ...

...ore detailed version covering 13 topics, such was Jerusalem, refugees, security, water and the Palestinian economy.   "If you want to resolve the conflict, here is the recipe," Balt...

...f the current program of moderation.   The concept of a democratic Arab state with an open market economy governed by the rule of law is no small feat. The US has every reason to promote this...

...quot; says the document. "Our national duty stipulates that we should do whatever we can to get our economy out of the cycle of dependency and alienation." (Reporting by Mohammed Assadi,...

27. It's time to talk to Fatah
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...onditions in the West Bank. The dismantling of some 40 checkpoints has eased some of the pressure, and the economy seems to move upward, with a 1 percent stated growth. Ultimately, the congress, wit...

28. Green Shoots in Palestine II
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
... the post-Yasir Arafat Palestinians another chance to build the sort of self-governing authority, army and economy that are prerequisites for securing their own independent state. A Palestinian peace ...

29. Obama’s Emerging Middle East Map
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...’s recent easing of some of the West Bank’s 600 odd checkpoints, which cripple the Palestinian economy and make life a misery. It may be seen, too, in Israel’s declared intention to ...

30. A new Palestine
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...ly regime. Israel, meanwhile, has removed about 25 roadblocks that dissected the West Bank and stifled its economy. Palestinian awareness has also changed: They are sick and tired of the constant fric...

31. Settlements Defy Solution
(News Room/News - 2009)
...ary checkpoints in the West Bank in a declared bid to bolster the Western-backed Abbas and the Palestinian economy. But Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said that moving a “handful&rdq...

32. Israel-Palestinian Calm Could Ease Talks
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...d "economic peace" aims to create the conditions for a settlement by building up the West Bank's economy. He has focused only on the West Bank, the Palestinian territory run by a moderate ...

33. Mitchell Urges Arab Action
(News Room/News - 2009)
...re discussions among friends.” He praised recent steps taken by Netanyahu to boost the Palestinian economy in the West Bank and said he would urge Palestinians on Monday to respond with their ...

...elegraphic Agency (JTA) Date: 22.07.2009 Diaspora Jews should join Arabs in investing in the Palestinian economy, Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Jewish leaders. The Israeli prime minister listed prosp...

35. One Piece of a Larger Puzzle
(News Room/News - 2009)
...piece to this puzzle is progress on the ground. Bassem Khoury, the newly appointed PA minister of national economy, told us that the Obama administration’s actions offer a sense of optimism that...

...d and a measure that international groups have encouraged to bolster Palestinian moderates and improve the economy. Top IDF commanders said they are sensing a change in attitudes in the West Bank as w...

37. Israel Removes West Bank Checkpoints
(News Room/News - 2009)
...over the past year, enabling Palestinians to move more freely between towns and helping to boost the local economy. But the United Nations says that more than 600 checkpoints, roadblocks, gates and ...

...re are many reasons to argue for a settlement freeze. The economic drain of the settlements on the Israeli economy is enormous. The government has spent more than half a billion dollars on the settlem...

...operating hours of the key Allenby border crossing with Jordan in a move aimed at boosting the Palestinian economy. At a cabinet committee charged with improving the West Bank economy, Prime Ministe...

40. Yossi Beilin Speaks to Diplomatic Community
(Events/Local Activities - 2009)
...member of Knesset, former Chairman of the Meretz-Yachad party, and former Minister of Justice, Minister of Economy and Planning, Deputy Foreign Minister, and Deputy Finance Minister. Beilin initiated ...

...im it is meeting its promises to lift restrictions and is contributing to the bettering of the Palestinian economy. An Israeli security source told Haaretz that "the improved security situation...

...stablishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state but that it will take time to build the institutions and economy needed for it to be successful. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, whose organization r...

43. GI Israel Position Paper: Between Netanyahu and Geneva
(Position Papers/GI Position Papers)
...d entrepreneurs of the Arab world, to come and invest here, to assist the Palestinians and us, to give the economy a jump-start.   The Geneva Accord: The Parties shall cooperate in areas of j...

...el long and circuitous routes to their destinations. This has had a very serious impact on the Palestinian economy and on the access of Palestinians to vital services, such as health care. A system of...

...el long and circuitous routes to their destinations. This has had a very serious impact on the Palestinian economy and on the access of Palestinians to vital services, such as health care. A system of...

46. Good cop, bad cop
(News Room/News - 2009)
...at is going through the minds of President Obama and his aides. At a time when Pakistan is burning and the economy is slumping, White House officials went to great lengths in order to free up precious...

...he Palestinian society is becoming more conservative. The glory days of the peace process are over and the economy is in a dire situation. After the election of Hamas there was a regression in women's...

48. Israel's Step Back From Peace
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
...d other restrictions on movement frustrate Palestinian life, fragment Palestinian society and strangle our economy. Tied to this is the urgent need to reopen Gaza's border crossings to allow the mov...

... the Palestinians were not ready for independence, and said he would limit his efforts to developing their economy while continuing Israel's military occupation of the West Bank. But facing the pros...

50. This Is Not a Test
(News Room/Op Ed - 2009)
... West Bank, because a rocket from there can easily close the Tel Aviv airport and shut down Israel’s economy. And if the Jewish settlers continue with their “natural growth” to dev...

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