Tag Archives: Akiva Eldar

A Point of No Return?

By Syndicated News | Published: March 27, 2010
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa (former Foreign Minister of Egypt, and before that Ambassador to the UN in New York) said at the opening of an Arab Summit meeting in Sirte, Libya, today that “We must prepare for the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure … This is the time to [...]
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Netanyahu: Jerusalem is not a settlement – Yasser Abed Rabbo: He is right

By Syndicated News | Published: March 23, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu — unrepentant, it is said, after a very recent flap with Washington over measures to expand Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem — said in Washington today that “Jerusalem is not a settlement — Jerusalem is our capital”. [Actually, Netanyahu was only repeating words spoken on Monday by Howard Kohr, executive director [...]
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What will Palestinians do now? U.S. reportedly accepted Israel’s position…

By Syndicated News | Published: March 9, 2010
According to a report compiled by three senior Haaretz correspondents (Barak Ravid, Akiva Eldar, Avi Issacharoff) published today, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell, who met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah yesterday after two days of talks in Israel, “told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud [...]
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Palestinians: “It’s only four months…”

By Syndicated News | Published: March 6, 2010
Palestinian officials are saying that they were under too much pressure from the Europeans and the Arabs to resist any longer accepting an American proposal to undertake “indirect” or “proximity” talks with Israel after more than a year of no negotiations. “It’s only for four months”, Palestinian officials say, apologetically, with a shrug of [...]
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