The Palestine Papers: Why didn't the Palestinians sign an agreement?

RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY —  The British newspaper The Guardian and the pan-Arab news network Al-Jazeera created an uproar in the region on Sunday when they published previously classified documents detailing peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders over the past decade. The published documents have been dubbed “The Palestine Papers,” and they reveal that…

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PA says Al-Jazeera is declaring war on them

by Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost A senior Palestinian Authority official in Ramallah on Sunday strongly condemned the Al-Jazeera TV network for publishing hundreds of documents concerning the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis. “Al-Jazeera has declared war on the Palestinians,” the official told The Jerusalem Post. “This station serves the interests of the enemies of…

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Huge cache of confidential Palestinian documents leaked

by Herb Keinon, JPost With the Palestinian Authority making an international incident over every plan to build in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem beyond the Green Line, a cache of some 1,600 documents –mostly from the Palestinian Negotiating Unit — shows that in 2008 the PA was willing to recognize eventual Israeli control over all those…

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One that calls for a response

Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat said: “Can you imagine that you accept for the sake of peace to have Jews as citizens with full rights in Palestine like Arab Israelis? … Can you imagine that I have changed my DNA and accepted a situation in which Jews become citizens having the rights that I and…

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One that calls for a response

Herb Zweibon said: Israel suffers from a crisis in leadership. An Israeli Committee on the Present Danger along with a grass roots “tea party” movement could, between them, give birth to a new generation of leaders (to quote Shmuel Katz, who never gave up hope such a leadership would arise): “with the integrity, the prudence…

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Copts, Christians, Jews and Other Minorities in the Middle East

by Franck Salameh, Hudson NY Happy New Year, even though this promises to be a year that is neither Happy nor Blessed for the world’s Coptic community. The Copts, the ancient Christians of modern Egypt, who can trace their proud roots back to Pharaonic times, have been undergoing a fierce and systematic eradication of their…

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PA FM condemns Israel's 'Judaization' of Jerusalem

by JPost Staff  Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki condemned the “land rush” and “Judaization” of Jerusalem, in an interview with Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Thursday. After Wednesday’s Arab League economic summit, Malki commented to Asharq that Israel has turned the Shepherd Hotel into an outpost. “The occupation’s land rush in Sheikh Jarrah in…

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Dear Time Magazine,

Dear Mr. Stengel, I wanted to bring to your attention a recent article in Time entitled “Israel’s Rightward Lurch Scares Some Conservatives.” I hope that you will agree that the article’s obvious bias and numerous distortions are not worthy of the standards of your prestigious magazine. Israel is depicted in the article as essentially sliding…

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German think tank told US to sabotage Iran

by Emet Report A German think tank recommended to the US that a “policy of covert sabotage” should be adopted against Iran’s nuclear program, a WikiLeaks document released on Tuesday revealed. In a meeting with US officials in Berlin in January 2010, Volker Perthes, director of Germany’s government-funded Institute for Security and International Affairs, said…

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Don't abandon the Golan

by David Isaac, Shmuelkatz.com “…they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.” – Joshua 20:8 In “Golan: More Than Geography” (The Jerusalem Post, March 5, 1993), Shmuel Katz…

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Is peace possible in the Middle East?

by David Solway, Pajamas Media The Middle East “peace process,” as in Macbeth’s great soliloquy, “creeps on this petty pace from day to day,” depleting its innumerable tomorrows and leading to nothing but misery and despair. It has only “lighted fools/The way to dusty death” and to failure after failure, being quite definitely “a tale/Told…

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