Law and Society
Middle EastBy david 2000
2 months ago
President Truman's Draft Recognition of Israel
Any hope of creating a new Arab state between Israel, Egypt and Jordan has been stymied after the following statement was made by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 28:
"Today, 8 months after our government was formed, we have formulated a broad national consensus on the principles to approach the negotiations with the Palestinians in order to achieve peace and security. The two principles are clear, there are others - the recognition of the state of Israel as a Jewish state, and of course, security measures that guarantee effective demilitarization and other principles that I have already expressed."
These two principles -
1. recognizing Israel as a Jewish State and
2. demilitarization of a future Palestinian State
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy Dr.Aaron.Lerner.IMRA
4 months ago
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 10 November 2009
Attorney Dov Weisglass , Former Chief of Staff to PM Sharon, who played a pivotal role as his key contact with Washington, showed a profound misunderstanding of the terms of the Roadmap in a live interview broadcast this morning on Israel Radio during the 8:00-8:30 segment.
In response to a question about MK Shaul Mofaz’s “peace proposal”, Weisglass claimed that a sovereign Palestinian state would be created under Phase II of the Roadmap approved by the Government of Israel.
Attorney Weisglass declined to note that this was an “option” in the Roadmap rather than a requirement.
“Phase II: Transition -- June 2003-December 2003
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
6 months ago
Abbas - Walking Away From Negotiations
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has put paid to any prospects of the Palestinian Authority resuming negotiations with Israel after the proposed trilateral meetings to be held with President Obama, Abbas and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today.
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
6 months ago
Arafat,Peres and Rabin earn the Nobel Peace Prize but fail to bring peace
Freed from all earthly pressures Yitzchak Rabin and Yasser Arafat frankly reflect on the mistakes they both made in trying to reach the "Peace of the Brave" for which they and Shimon Peres – now President of Israel - received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.
Fifteen years later Israel and the Palestinian Authority are still as far apart as ever in achieving a resolution of their conflicting claims to sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza – despite Israel’s total evacuation from Gaza in 2005.
Their conversation is as illuminating as it is revealing :
Yitzchak:
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy caitlyn
7 months ago
When the Bush administration laid out the Roadmap peace plan it, together with the United Nations, Russia, and the European Union, clearly laid out three conditions that Hamas would have to meet to be included:
- Recognition of Israel
- Renunciation of terrorism and violence
- Acceptance of previous agreements and obligations, including the Roadmap
Hamas has never accepted any of the Quartet's conditions and, as a result, remains classified strictly as a terrorist group by the United States and most of the West.
Further attempts at a peace process were based on the idea that the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority did meet this conditions and had, in fact, agreed to them as part of the Oslo Accords. This has also been the basis of all U.S. aid to the Palestinians, including the training and arming of security forces.
Since March of this year we have seen one senior Palestinian Authority official after another make clear, in no uncertain terms, that they don't accept any of the three conditions either. It started with Muhammed Dahlan, a former Palestinian security chief and senior Fatah official, during a March 17 interview on Palestinian television: |
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