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Palestinians Express Doubts Over 2-State Future
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Dec. 12) -- Conventional wisdom on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has long held that Israel should relinquish most of the lands it occupied in 1967 in favor of a Palestinian state - the "two-state solution" that much of the world has supported for years. But the utter lack of progress in peace talks and continued Jewish settlement in the West Bank has many people warning that Israel might instead be headed toward a one-state reality, with a permanent occupation of the West Bank and a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority - unless, perhaps, the world forces it to give the ...
Poll Shows Most Israelis Want Peace but Doubt It's Possible
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- Most Israelis are apparently willing to make the tough territorial sacrifices required for a lasting peace with the Palestinians, even if their government seems far from doing so. And most Americans would like to see that happen with a neutral United States playing the mediator. But there's a considerable amount of pessimism that a comprehensive and lasting peace will be arranged any time soon. Those are the findings of three polls taken among Jewish Israelis, Israeli Arabs and Americans, and released today by the Brookings Institution. The results come just two days after the ...
Officials: US Drops Demand for Israeli Settlement Freeze
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 7) -- President Barack Obama has abandoned attempts to persuade Israel to slow West Bank settlement activity, officials said Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and one of the president's top foreign policy initiatives. After months of trying to broker a formula under which Israel would impose a new, temporary settlement freeze in return for U.S. promises and incentives, two American officials said the administration has concluded that course won't work. The decision was expected to be announced later Tuesday. Talks stalled in ...
Plan for Reviving Mideast Talks Bets on Quick Border Deal
By not in system - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Nov. 14) -- Washington's new proposal for reviving Mideast talks, presented Sunday to Israel's Cabinet, rests on the bold expectation that Israelis and Palestinians will be able to sketch a border between them in three months. That's the period the plan sets aside for a one-time extension of a ban on new construction in West Bank settlements. The proposal was worked out in a seven-hour meeting last week in New York between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. U.S.officials said Netanyahu told the administration that he supports the plan ...
As Netanyahu Heads to US, Israel Keeps Building
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JERUSALEM (Nov. 5) -- A page of gray, text-heavy official announcements published in an Israeli newspaper could torpedo President Barack Obama's strategy for the renewal of Middle East peace talks. The announcements came on the eve of a crucial visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the U.S., where he will meet with Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton while Obama is traveling in Asia. In the Hebrew daily Maariv, the Israel Lands Administration detailed tenders inviting contractors to bid for the construction of 238 new homes in two Israeli ...
Mideast Peace Talks at an 'Impasse,' UN Official Says
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(Oct. 18) -- A senior U.N. official today declared Middle East peace talks to be "at an impasse" despite repeated American attempts to break a deadlock over Israeli settlement construction in the Palestinian territories. The United Nations and diplomatic partners may soon hold a high-level meeting aimed at reviving a round of talks that only got under way last month, Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, the assistant secretary-general for political affairs, said during the Security Council's regular monthly briefing on the Mideast. "We are at an impasse," he said. "We have a brief and crucial window to ...
Israeli PM Offers Conditional Settlements Freeze
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JERUSALEM (Oct. 11) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said for the first time that he would extend the settlement restrictions in the West Bank - if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish national homeland. Menahem Kahana, AFP / Getty Images Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on Monday in Jerusalem, where he proposed a new settlements freeze in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland, a move dismissed by the Palestinians. The idea, while innocuous to Israel's supporters, is widely seen as undermining the ...
Palestinians Hold Off on Decision to Quit Peace Talks
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JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- The Palestinian president said Monday he would wait at least a week before deciding whether to quit Mideast peace talks, giving U.S. mediators precious time to broker a compromise after Israel refused to extend its 10-month moratorium on new West Bank settlement construction. President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the newly launched negotiations if Israel resumes building in the settlements. But with the stakes so high, Abbas said during a visit to Paris that he would not make any hasty decisions. He said he would consult with the ...
Tension Grows at End of Israeli Settlement Slowdown
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REVAVA, West Bank (Sept. 26) -- Jewish settlers released balloons and broke ground on a kindergarten in celebration Sunday as the last hours of a 10-month construction slowdown ticked away, while U.S. and Israeli leaders tried to figure out how to keep Palestinians from walking out of peace talks over the expiration of the restrictions. In Revava, a settlement deep in the West Bank, about 2,000 activists released 2,000 balloons in the blue and white of the Israeli flag at sundown. The balloons were meant to symbolize the 2,000 apartments that settlers say are ready to be built ...
Obama to the U.N.: America Alone Cannot Build a Better World
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Obama arrived at the headquarters of the United Nations on Thursday morning with a message to the organization's member states: America will continue to participate in -- and strengthen -- efforts to establish international peace and democracy, but the U.S. will not, and cannot, do so alone. "The world that America seeks is not one that we can build on our own," he said. "For human rights to reach those who suffer the boot of oppression, we need your voices to speak out. In particular, I appeal to those nations who emerged from tyranny and inspired the world in the second half of the ...
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