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Palestinians to Push for UN Recognition as Independent State
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- The Palestinian foreign minister said today he will ask the United Nations to recognize an independent Palestinian state next September. The announcement comes after Chile became the latest in a series of Latin American nations to recognize an independent Palestinian state. Riad Malki said he hoped to gain recognition from other countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. "In the Caribbean there are 12 small states," he said. "But these countries have the same vote that China has in the U.N. General Assembly." Bebeto Matthews, AP Riad Malki, the ...
Peace Process Falters as US Rethinks Mideast Strategy
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Dec. 8) -- The U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace process, at an impasse for months, is now officially broken, with the prospect for a substantive revival any time soon looking increasingly unlikely. And however much the Obama administration today continued to promote hope for future talks, officials' frustration was palpable -- as was a sense that the U.S. blames Israel's unwillingness to renew a freeze on construction of settlements in the West Bank. Bernat Armangue, AP Israeli settlers protest a construction freeze in the West Bank settlements outside the weekly Cabinet meeting in ...
Credibility on Line, Clinton and Obama Scramble to Save Mideast Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailySix weeks ago the tableau was a beautiful one. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, flanked by the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, joined by King Abdullah II of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt for days of feasting, toasting, and promises from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to the State Department. "We have been here before and we know how difficult the road ahead will be," Clinton said on day one of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. "Those that oppose the cause of peace will try in every way possible to ...
Palestinians Back Abbas on Settlement Slowdown
By not in system - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, West Bank (Oct. 2) -- Dozens of senior Palestinians on Saturday backed President Mahmoud Abbas' refusal to negotiate with Israel as long as it builds in West Bank settlements, dealing a new setback to troubled U.S. efforts to salvage peace talks. Israel refuses to extend a 10-month-old curb on settlement construction, while Abbas says there is no point in negotiating as long as settlements eat up more of the land the Palestinians want for a future state. The Obama administration has said it will keep pushing to find a solution to the impasse, and U.S. envoy George Mitchell is now ...
Netanyahu Willing to Trade Settlement Freeze for Famed Spy's Freedom
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 21) -- It's called chutzpah: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a deal to Washington. He'll extend a freeze on settlement expansion in the occupied territories -- settlements that are illegal under international law -- in exchange for Jonathan Pollard, an American who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. for spying for Israel. Israel's army radio said that "Netanyahu had asked an unnamed intermediary to sound out the Obama administration on the proposal, but it is not known what response was received," Haaretz reports. Pollard, a former naval intelligence analyst, ...
Key Issue in Mideast Talks: How Do You Define 'Settlement'?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 1) -- Neighborhoods. Colonies. Facts on the ground. Suburbs. Unauthorized outposts. Jerusalem. Whatever you call Jewish areas outside of Israel's 1967 border, the peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that opened today at the White House will have to confront what to do with a half-million Israelis living in disputed territory that Palestinians want for their new state. There are other intractable core issues, such as refugees and security, that must be worked out before a peace deal can be signed. But the ...
Israeli Military Blames 'Mistakes' for Botched Gaza Flotilla Raid
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- The findings of a newly released investigation undertaken by the Israeli military following a May 31 raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza are not likely to quell the controversy over the incident that left nine people dead. On the one hand, the report criticized the Israeli military's intelligence-gathering and planning prior to the raid, The Associated Press reported. Specifically, the report found fault with the level of communication between intelligence units and cited the lack of a backup plan should there be an outbreak of violence. But on the other hand, the report ...
Opinion: The Long Road for Obama and Netanyahu
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(July 5) -- "It doesn't take a red-haired Russian spy to know that there are tensions between the U.S. and Israel." So said Michael Herzog, a retiring brigadier general in the Israeli Defense Forces, a few days ago. Indeed, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama meet on Tuesday, there are disputes on a wide range of issues. There is an opportunity here, though, to improve ties, if both leaders are willing to give up something. Rocky relations aren't good for either country, and the seemingly endless Arab-Israeli dispute encourages foes of both Israel and the ...
Pro-Israel Lobby Is Gaining Traction in the U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyWell, it would appear that the so-called "Israel lobby" isn't just a Washington phenomenon. On Monday, British television's Channel Four aired a one-hour exposé revealing the pervasive influence of the pro-Israel lobby in the highest realms of British politics and media. The documentary's producers were motivated by the belief that this powerful lobby had been inadequately studied, even ignored, by Britain's mainstream press. And so they set out to explore the financial, political and journalistic means by which this group exerts its influence. ...
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