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...ys Tamar Hermann, a political scientist who has measured the Israeli public’s appetite for a negotiated settlement every month since 1994, the year after the Oslo accords seemed to bring peace s...
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Three mistakes the U.S. must not make in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
(News Room/Op Ed - 2010)
...s. If the parties can devise a compromise to get past the expiration this month of Israel's partial freeze on settlement construction, they will be off and running.
How far they can run, howev...
...s security forces went after those responsible. He didn’t walk out when some Israeli settlers began new settlement construction even before a Sept. 26 moratorium is to expire.
President ...
...land area occupied in 1967, and that the Palestinians would be given an unpopulated area equal in size to the settlement blocs to be annexed by Israel. It was also agreed that all Arab neighborhoods i...
...which he pledged to withdraw from the talks if Israel doesn't extend a freeze on building in Jewish West Bank settlements that expires on Sept. 26.
The talks cap months of diplomatic effort...
...will be an early test of the two leaders’ seriousness of purpose.
Mr. Netanyahu’s moratorium on settlement construction expires on Sept. 26. Mr. Abbas has threatened to withdraw from the...
...r hopes for peace and we must seize this opportunity. The broad parameters of a permanent Palestinian-Israeli settlement are already clear: the creation of a Palestinian state in the territories occup...
...ship. With the message of two states for two peoples. We are arguing that it's important to reach a permanent settlement, urgently. We did not take Israeli leaders because the parallel layer of Israel...
...s dropped from an intifada high of 452 in 2002 to 6 last year and only 2 so far this year.
Second, settlement activity has slowed significantly. As a result of Israel’s 10-month settl...
... over historical narratives and justice in the future.
If Netanyahu survives the thorny issue of a settlement freeze and manages to establish a semblance of trust with Abbas, he can anticip...
...inister Binyamin Netanyahu publicly endorsed a two-state solution last summer, and his 10-month moratorium on settlement activity in the West Bank has demonstrated more restraint than any of his prede...
...e weekend.
In it the minister presents a comprehensive peace plan which includes among other things a settlement construction freeze in areas outside large settlement blocks, the dismantling o...
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Elad Dunayevsky: Do you think that the status of Mahmoud Abbas will suffer if negotiations resume without a settlement freeze?
Dr. Samih Shabib: If negotiations resume without halting settlement c...
...as had deadly consequences.
The main point of concern of the Palestinians remains the continued building of settlements and their expansion. During the Oslo process the number of settlers more than ...
...the war of 1967 conveyed the following legal opinion to Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "[C]ivilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth G...
...nister Benjamin Netanyahu, that the United States will not accept new land expropriations in the West Bank or settlement activity in Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem after the so-called “set...
...oadblocks that made wide areas of the West Bank inaccessible to them. But they also got the evacuation of 21 settlements and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank, with no agreem...
...ed by most Israelis to be one of the city’s southern neighborhoods. But most Palestinians consider it a settlement built on occupied land.
During the early years of the second intifada, frontl...
... Israel that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to put off direct peace talks until the end of the settlement construction freeze, sources close to Abbas believe he may be leaning in the di...
... signs of progress, especially with the presence of a right-wing Israeli government that comes out with a new settlement project or another issue to return the situation to its former state whenever t...
...Tuesday.
Mr. Abbas also is wary of Washington. After Mr. Obama demanded in 2009 that Mr. Netanyahu halt all settlement construction as a prelude to negotiations, Mr. Abbas did the same.
When Mr. N...
...lying this talk is the logic that “economic peace will support and bolster the achievement of political settlements down the line.”
For Netanyahu, this was a convenient way of a...
...ions with the Palestinians.
The Palestinians also want to discuss the future of Israel's freeze on settlement construction, which is scheduled to expire on September 26.
If Israe...
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Israel believes Abbas will bide time on direct talks until settlement freeze nears end
(News Room/News - 2010)
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A senior source in Jerusalem said that Abbas will likely wait until September, when Israel's temporary settlement freeze expires, before declaring his own decision on the matter.
Officials a...
... is how Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Head of the Labor Party, announced for the first time that the freeze on settlement construction in the Palestinian Territories, which is due to end in less than t...
... insisted he will only upgrade the current U.S.-mediated indirect talks with Israel if it agrees to a halt on settlement construction and accept a Palestinian state in West Bank, the Gaza Strip and ea...
...rion, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon did.
In contrast, leaders of the Gush Emunim settlement movement through the years have believed that the ingathering of exiles, establ...
...quot; accusing Israel of "rejecting to recognize a reference to the peace process and continues building settlements. "
The settlement activities on occupied Palestinian territori...
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Israeli and Palestinian heads held meetings with senior officials and AECID representatives in Spain
(Events/International)
...meetings with senior position-holders in Madrid to discuss the Geneva Initiative and prospects for a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Baltiansky and Mr. Foqaha met with Spa...
...me to power in 2009. The international community is put off by his tactics: whenever the question of Israel's settlement policy comes up, he diverts attention to the Iranian nuclear threat. He argues ...
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September 2, Y-net op-ed by Geneva Initiative Israeli and Palestinian Director-Generals:
(News Room/This Week)
...land area occupied in 1967, and that the Palestinians would be given an unpopulated area equal in size to the settlement blocs to be annexed by Israel. It was also agreed that all Arab neighborhoods i...
...n illustrating voices on the right the article refers to Uri Elitzur, former chairman of the Yesha Council of Settlements and Netanyahu's bureau chief in his first term as prime minister on the issue....
...align trends, but is absent.
Because of this pervasive zero-sum mindset, proposals that borders or settlements be tackled first and in isolation are misguided. These are the ultimate zero-s...
...za and the other in the West Bank. What is – in your opinion – the most feasible solution for the settlement of this problem?
Response &...
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GI Director of Foreign Relations met with Catholic Relief Services
(Events/Local Activities - 2010)
...al for successful negotiations. She stated that with American involvement all of the elements necessary for a settlement are present and if there is serious leadership committed to negotiation, an agr...
...ad been frosty, overshadowed by Israel's announcement of construction in East Jerusalem despite the temporary settlement freeze.
Netanyahu on Wednesday described his meeting with Obama as positive, ...
... there were.
Now, I don't want to be disingenuous. There have been differences. I think that our view on settlements, for example, is consistent with all previous U.S. administrations. But the ...
...ous visit in March when he was given the cold shoulder by Obama because of a row over the expansion of Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem.
A diplomatic flurry in the run-up to this visit,...
...ducted by George Mitchell, the American envoy — would begin before Israel’s limited moratorium on settlement construction is due to expire in September.
We would like to have co...
...iative.
They feature a return to 1967 lines, with some land swaps to accommodate the major Israeli settlements; a shared Jerusalem, with Israeli sovereignty in the western city and in the O...
...need for a “new attitude” of optimism and confidence in Israel's strength to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. She said that the current government would benefit from ...
...ip on power. Every so often he is burdened with a crisis, like the flotilla raid, but overall life is good. A settlement freeze here, some settlement construction there, fight and then make nice with ...
... Saudis want Obama to lean on Netanyahu over stalled peace talks with the Palestinians and on freezing Jewish settlements on occupied Arab land.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the ...
...sraelis support Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to impose a 10 months freeze on construction in the settlements; 44% oppose it. These figures are similar to those obtained in our December 20...
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On June 29, the Geneva Initiative held a political conference on Jerusalem and settlements.
29.06.2010
The Geneva Initiative held a co...
...urrent timeout.
But Abbas and Fayyad will not be able to sustain this timeout if Netanyahu resumes settlement-building in September, when the partial freeze expires, and if Israel doesn&rsq...
...e process on the grounds that they are a "conflict of interest," due to the fact that he lives in a settlement. This is just another one of the issues he has infected many Israelis with, as ...
...ing resuming negotiations with Israel and stated that negotiations would be the only way to reach an end game settlement for the conflict. He highlighted that settlements and demolishing Palestinian l...
...ference is to first deal with borders.
It is essential to deal with borders so that we can put the issue of settlements to rest. Once a border is agreed to, Israel can continue to build in all the s...
...cy 18.06.2010
The World Zionist Congress passed a resolution endorsing a two-state solution and a West Bank settlement freeze.
The vote in Jerusalem came a day after some opponents of the resoluti...
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