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The ex-spy who stepped into the cold
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July 29, 2011 02:07 AM
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In 2007, an organization called Conflicts Forum, which at the time was being funded by the European Union, issued a report intended to promote a “positive assertion of Islamist values and thinking” in the West. It laid out a public relations campaign for rebranding “resistance...
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Arabs yearn to move on and enjoy genuine peace
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April 11, 2011 02:00 AM
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Probably the most important clause in the Arab Peace Initiative, first adopted by the Arab League at the Beirut summit in 2002 and reaffirmed on several occasions including in 2007, is its commitment to “establish normal relations with Israel in the context of [a] comprehensive peace.” This clause...
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Arabs must end the ambiguity and hypocrisy when facing terrorism
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January 14, 2011 12:00 AM
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The recent bomb attacks against Christian communities in Egypt and Iraq have been roundly condemned by most political and religious leaders, commentators and public opinion in the Arab world. They have also been met with an outpouring of passionate condemnation by ordinary people who have taken to...
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No to a third Palestinian intifada
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October 19, 2010 12:00 AM
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Whether or not a solution to the crisis over settlements is achieved in the coming days, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are in serious trouble. The Israeli daily Haaretz quoted unnamed Western officials as saying the talks are “going...
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Palestinians set their crosshairs on educational reform
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August 23, 2010 12:00 AM
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In an important new move, the Palestinian Authority has recently begun highlighting education as one of the main centerpieces in the next phase of the state and institution building program. Under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas, the PA understands that an effective and progressive...
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Where is Israel taking its occupation?
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June 11, 2010 12:00 AM
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While world attention has been heavily focused on efforts to break the siege of Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank are pursuing a series of new, nonviolent, strategies challenging the Israeli occupation. What they are primarily seeking, and what the Israeli government is desperately trying to...
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The US may have no Plan B, but the Palestinians do
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May 20, 2010 12:00 AM
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The Obama administration was successful in arranging for the resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations through “proximity talks,” which began recently. However, expectations in all quarters are understandably low for any near-term breakthrough. Consequently, Palestinians have been...
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Only an Arab Palestine makes a 'Jewish' Israel meaningful
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April 01, 2010 12:00 AM
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting the Palestinians recognize Israel as, in his words, “the nation-state of the Jewish people,” a new and problematic demand that raises serious questions about Israel’s “Jewish character.” The Balfour Declaration...
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A Palestinian state must be secular
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February 08, 2010 12:00 AM
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As Palestinians press the international community to live up to its commitment to ensuring the establishment of an independent Palestine alongside Israel, conversation is intensifying about the character of this new state. In their own interest, Palestinians should buck the regional trend toward...
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Between a rock and a hard place
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November 16, 2009 12:00 AM
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It is almost impossible to adequately convey the present degree of Palestinian despair but the recent announcement that President Mahmoud Abbas might resign and that the rest of the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership may follow – in effect dissolving the PA – should provide some...
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What would be at stake in a third intifada?
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October 19, 2009 12:00 AM
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As the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially East Jerusalem, is balanced on a knife edge and could erupt at any moment into a new explosion of violence or even a third intifada, it is crucial to review what is at stake for all parties should such a catastrophic turn of...
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Credit Barack Obama with resolve on a Palestinian state
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October 07, 2009 12:00 AM
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Under the administration of President Barack Obama, the United States has vigorously re-engaged in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and made commitment to Palestinian statehood an American national security and foreign policy priority. Obama has said that it is “absolutely...
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The hollowness of the one-state agenda
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September 08, 2009 12:00 AM
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On college campuses in the United States and the United Kingdom, and increasingly among grassroots activists in the West generally, the cause of ending the Israeli occupation and securing independence for a Palestinian state is being abandoned in favor of a much more far-reaching goal of replacing...
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Create a real American coalition on Middle East peace
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June 23, 2009 12:00 AM
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For years now, my colleagues and I at the American Task Force on Palestine have argued that advocates of a two-state resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict need to form a real, functioning national coalition in the United States to support this goal. President Barack Obama has put a great...
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The myth of Martyrs versus Traitors
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February 06, 2009 12:00 AM
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The recent conflict in Gaza has the potential of becoming a transformative political event in the Middle East that allows Islamists to capture the Arab political imagination for at least a generation. Along with their familiar appeals to religious and cultural "authenticity," and dubious claims...
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