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← Older posts Newer posts →AN ISRAELI VIEW The Doha declaration and the Palestinian mindset. by Yisrael Harel
15 February 2012I don’t know what developments the Doha declaration will generate at the internal Palestinian level. It certainly won’t produce peace between Israel and the Palestinians. When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared that Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu…
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A PALESTINIAN VIEW Putting Doha in context. by Hani al-Masri
15 February 2012The signing of last May’s reconciliation agreement would likely not have been possible without the shifting of various Arab, regional and international factors that were hampering reconciliation. The fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who was committed to Israeli and…
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AN ISRAELI VIEW A failure of Israeli strategic thinking. by Yossi Alpher
15 February 2012The Fateh-Hamas Doha declaration of February 5 is many things, some more grounded in reality than others. At the regional level, the declaration represents yet another step forward for political Islam. This takes the form of new agreements between Hamas…
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A PALESTINIAN VIEW Dialogue is the way. by Ghassan Khatib
15 February 2012The agreement that was announced in Doha last week between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, generated healthy debate and discussion among Palestinians, but especially within Hamas. Once again, the Palestinian argument that engaging Hamas…
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The life of a heart: Muslims and Jews saving lives together by Mehnaz M. Afridi
15 February 2012New York, New York – As I listen to sound bites of news, a swarm of words sting me: Iran, Israel, nuclear, Palestine-Israel at a standstill, Muslims kill Jews, and Jews kill Muslims. As a Muslim woman who teaches classes…
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State-mosque relations in Europe, the other half of the story by Jonathan Laurence
15 February 2012Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – Just over 1 per cent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims reside in Western Europe, yet this minority has had a disproportionate impact on religion and politics in its new home. In just fifty years, the…
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US-Muslim Brotherhood relations key to Egypt’s economy? by Mohamed El-Sayed
15 February 2012Jerusalem – Late last month I went to the children’s memorial in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. I stood there and took in the names, the candles and the glass. And I felt confused and sad and…
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Detangling the Holocaust from Israeli-Palestinian politics by Moriel Rothman
15 February 2012Jerusalem – Late last month I went to the children’s memorial in Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. I stood there and took in the names, the candles and the glass. And I felt confused and sad and…
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Palestinian aids Israeli soldier left behind in raid
14 February 2012JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ila An Israeli soldier stranded after a raid in occupied territory was escorted to safety by a Palestinian man in the same village the troops had targeted, witnesses and media reports said. The Israeli military said…
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A Nuclear Iran: Avoiding a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy ?
14 February 2012Press here to read the article
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