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Israel Tense as Egypt Slides Into Power Vacuum
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyAround the world, in the corridors of power and on the streets, the word is everywhere: Egypt. But perhaps nowhere is that word uttered with more trepidation, more grim uncertainty, and more mortal stress than in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Israeli leaders are concerned about preserving the 30-year cold peace with Egypt, signed by Hosni Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar El-Sadat, the leader who paid for that treaty with his life. They are concerned about what the dissolution of Egypt's government means for the future of the peace process. As Egypt's immediate neighbors to the north, Israelis are ...
Sinking Peace: Leaked Documents Said to Show Decline of Middle East Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyThe Guardian and Al Jazeera served the world a fresh batch of leaked documents Sunday, with the material spanning a decade in the Israel-Palestine peace process. The picture is nothing if not depressing; the story is one of desperation, humiliation and dead-ends. The explosive news is the great concessions allegedly made by the Palestinians to the Israelis in round after round of talks. (The New York Times reports that State Department officials will not vouch for the documents' authenticity.) Palestinian negotiators appear to have offered to allow Israel to annex all but one of the East ...
Israeli Defense Minister Quits Labor Party
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- Defense Minister Ehud Barak plunged Israel into political turmoil today when he abruptly announced he was leaving the center-left Labor Party to form a new party. Eight party members, including three cabinet ministers, quit the government, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a narrower parliamentary majority. "We are embarking on a new path," Barak told a news conference. 'We want to wake up without having to compromise, apologize and explain." Lior Mizrahi, AFP / Getty Images Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak announced Monday that he was was leaving his ...
Wildfire in Northern Israel Rages, Killing 40; 'We Lost All Control'
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyIt's being called the "Worst disaster in Israeli history." It's not terror. It's got nothing to do with the peace process. It's a wildfire, raging out of control from Haifa through the lush and beautiful Carmel Mountains. Forty are already dead. Mass evacuations have begun from northern towns and villages, as well as from dorms at Haifa University, displacing an estimated 10,000. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left his home in Jerusalem to travel to the scene. He has issued a call for help internationally, appealing to the United States, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Russia. But so far ...
Mideast Impasse Eclipses Obama's Indonesia Trip
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Nov. 9) -- Chagrin at the Mideast peace process overshadowed joy at President Barack Obama's return to Indonesia, when a trip aimed in part at highlighting U.S. engagement with the Muslim world became a forum for criticizing Israeli construction plans for disputed East Jerusalem. At an appearance today with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Obama described Israel's formal notice to build some 1,300 housing units in neighborhoods claimed by Palestinians as the latest in a series of "incremental steps [that] can end up breaking down trust between the parties." "This kind of ...
Now Israel Has a 'Tea Party'
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 28) -- The "Teh" Party? Likud Party activists in Israel have set up a protest movement against the peace process modeled after the tea party movement in the United States. "The Israeli group will hold a rally Sunday at the Zionist Organization of America House in Tel Aviv, under the banner 'Saying No to Obama,' where they plan to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policy and the American pressure on Israel to renew the settlement construction freeze," reports Haaretz. Members of the Knesset -- Israel's parliament -- who are participating in the rally believe an Israeli-style ...
There Was Never a 'Settlement Freeze' to Begin With
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 28) -- Middle East peace negotiations have reached an impasse with Israel's cessation of a 10-month "settlement freeze" on Sunday. But, in reality, during the 10-month period of the so-called freeze, settlement construction continued. Haaretz's Dror Etkes unpacks the numbers from Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics: At the end of 2009, the number of housing units that were actively being built on all the settlements together amounted to 2,955. Three months later, at the end of March 2010, the number stood at 2,517. We are therefore talking about a drop of a little more than 400 ...
Palestinians Blink in Settlement Poker Match
By Matthew Kalman - AOL News
JERUSALEM (Sept. 27) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have emerged victorious -- for now -- after a tense weekend of brinkmanship over West Bank settlement building that wrong-footed the Obama administration, divided the Palestinian leadership and perhaps humiliated both of them. Netanyahu's refusal to heed President Barack Obama's plea at the United Nations on Friday to extend a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement building was a snub to the U.S. president and created major complications for the Palestinians. Ariel Schalit, AP The expiration of an Israeli ...
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, ...
Clinton Says 'Time Is Ripe' for Mideast Peace Deal
By not in system - AOL NewsSHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Sept. 14) -- Convening a new round of negotiations Tuesday between Israel and the Palestinians, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the "time is ripe" for a Mideast peace deal. Clinton sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to tackle the most immediate dispute between the two sides: a soon-to-expire curb on new construction for Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The Palestinians want the curb extended beyond the current Sept. 26 deadline, but Netanyahu has suggested at least some of the ...
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