Tag Archives: peace process

Once again the NYT’s Roger Cohen wants to save Israel from itself

Posted on 22 December 2014 by

For a long time now I’ve refrained from fisking New York Times’ articles and opinion pieces about Israel because they are either so anti-Israel, or so ignorant as to be irrelevant and even self-defeating in that they just provoke the … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: An outsider’s view of the results of Protective Edge

Posted on 4 September 2014 by

This is another guest post by frequent commenter and contributor Brian Goldfarb. I thought that now we have an at least temporary period of calm in Israel/Palestine, perhaps it was time to get back to normal (whatever that is in … Continue reading →

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Peace process in pieces

Posted on 23 April 2014 by

It seems that the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is all but over, whether with normalization or without. Mahmoud Abbas’s constant upping of the ante, with ever-increasing demands of Israel, made sure of that.  So now that it’s … Continue reading →

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Doing what’s good for Israel – Naftali Bennett’s stability initiative

Posted on 7 April 2014 by

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (from the Bayit Yehudi party)  is proving to be an inventive and pro-active lawmaker and minister who has come up with several interesting ideas for improving Israel’s domestic problems as well as its international status. He … Continue reading →

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Explaining Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state

Posted on 12 March 2014 by

One of Israel’s key demands from the Palestinians as part of the negotiations for a peace agreement is that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.  Possibly because of poor wording, and most definitely because of an animus towards … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: The Palestinians – the people who always refuse a state

Posted on 24 February 2014 by

This is another guest post by frequent contributor and reader Brian Goldfarb. Abba Eban it was who came up with two of the greatest quotes on the post-1967 Israel/Palestine situation. The first was that “I think that this is the … Continue reading →

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