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Category Archives: Unilateral UN Recognition of Palestine
The E-1 Gambit Explained
The Palestinians sought to upgrade their status in the UN in order to pursue diplomatic and legal efforts to against Israel rather than engaging in negotiations that would involve making painful concessions. Israel almost immediately announced that it would advance … Continue reading
Observed States and Unsettled Issues
Upon his return to Ramallah after the UN elevated the Palestinian Authority’s status to Observer State, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas celebrated pronouncing, “We now have a state.” This is, to an extent, the equivalent of Jews celebrating the Balfour Declaration with the … Continue reading
Khartoum Take Two
The Palestinians are asking the United Nations to formally agree to the Khartoum Resolution. “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel.” They have refused to negotiate without preconditions that are negotiating demands including the prior … Continue reading
PA Backing Off Declaration of Statehood?
In April, I began writing this article. Within hours of completing the first draft, there were multiple reassurances that the Palestinian Authority was going forward with its plans. I then shelved my article. However, with the article today in the … Continue reading
Why Bibi’s Speech Worked
I think that most of us expected Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech on Tuesday before the US Congress to be a defiant right wing speech. Commentators, no doubt had their stories ready entitled, “Bibi rebukes Barack” or “Bibi Bashes O!” It … Continue reading
Rabbi Kaufman on the Vital Points of President Obama’s Speech
I listened to President Obama’s speech “A Moment of Opportunity” on Thursday and read it again Friday with the ears and eyes of a centrist advocate for realistic peace. I heard things and see things in the speech with which … Continue reading
The End of the Zionist Enterprise
This morning (Sunday), on what Palestinians call Yawm an-Nakbah (the Day of the Catastrophe), Hamas’ Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is reported to have addressed some 10,000 worshippers in a Gaza mosque and to have declared that they were protesting “with … Continue reading
The Fatah-Hamas Agreement after Osama bin Laden
In an assessment of the reconciliation accord initialled in Cairo last week between senior representatives of Fatah and Hamas, Lt. Col. (ret) Jonathan D. Halevi wrote: “The current agreement is in the category of a forced willingness to agree on … Continue reading
Palestinian Independence
For the past few months we have been witnessing an upheaval in much of the Muslim world that is unparalleled by anything in recent history. It stretches from Tunisia to Libya, from Morocco to Syria, from Egypt to Jordan, from … Continue reading
Syria and Palestinian Statehood
In an editorial last Friday, The Washington Post condemned the inaction of the US Administration in the face of the large and growing number of demonstrators who have been killed by security forces in Syria since last month. The BBC … Continue reading
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