The Bibi-Mofaz trick that produced a unity government instead of elections, again brought to the fore the issue of contacts with the Palestinians. PA head Abu Mazen sought to return to dialog, but conditioned it on stopping construction in the settlements,agreement to form a Palestinian state within the '67 borders and release of prisoners.
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Every so often, the sayings of Casey Stengel come to mind. The longtime manager of the New York Yankees, accustomed to a Prussian professionalism in the hitting and fielding of baseballs, moved over to the astonishingly hapless New York Mets in 1962 and, surveying his new team, uttered an exasperated question: “Can’t anybody here...
Read more →The term settlements does not do justice to what Israeli Jews have built on the hilltops of the West Bank. Subdivisions comes closer in those whose winding lanes, red-tiled roofs, bougainvillea and tricycles create a suburban splendor of sorts. In other spots, industrial park would be more accurate, with Israelis having notched scores of...
Read more →Barack Obama has managed to coax Israeli and Palestinian leaders to Washington for a new round of peace talks. TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Well, having turned the page on Iraq, president Obama will now turn his attention to try to solve the conflict in the Middle East. After a year and a half of arm-twisting,...
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