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…thdraw from all Arab land captured in 1967, including “Arab Jerusalem.” We would also have to accept the “rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including their right to establish their own state.” Begin’s reply was more sensitive than I’d expected from a leader...

…been the “victim” of summit chicanery in which President Clinton and I had presented him with a deal no self-respecting Palestinian could accept. He was also campaigning for international support for a move, in contravention of the final Camp David communiqué, to “declare” a Pale...

…tunities that were never adequately explored. But through it all, what he said about himself was true: He wasn't as pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli as much as he was pro-peace. That peace has proven elusive to this day. But with all our differences -- and there are many -- I beli...

… and sweets earlier in the summit. But that meeting had produced not even a glimmer of negotiating flexibility from the Palestinian leader. Yossi had said at the time that it would help the atmosphere, and pay dividends later on. But that hadn’t happened either. “Madam Secretary,...

the parties can mutually agree on an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state

Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian

they entered it through the gateway of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The key to the American security dilemma in the region

listing the causes of the violence directed against Palestinian women

the failed peace process has bred extreme frustration among Palestinian militants

…academic and cultural boycotts of Jewish Israeli academics. This boycott is directed against Israel's ""occupation"" of Palestinian land—but the occupation that the boycott supporters have in mind is not of the West Bank but rather of Israel itself. Here is the first line of thei...

…terview by Aaron David Miller February 5, 2013 -- Other than Mahmoud Abbas, Saeb Erekat could be the most recognizable Palestinian on the planet. The chief Palestinian negotiator is certainly among the most passionate in promoting the cause. And nobody on the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_02...

…raeli Right is going too far by arguing that the security needs of Israel renders any viable,demilitarized independent, Palestinian State - impossible. In other words, the “ lesson” of recent years according to our Right is that Israel’s Security and the “two states solution” ar...

brokered a cease-fire to halt Palestinian Katyusha rocket fire into Israel. It was generally holding. But fundamentally, Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp D...

… which the war had gone wrong were already glaringly apparent. Some were operational. It is true we ended up overcoming Palestinian and Syrian resistance. Given the numerical balance of forces, that was a foregone conclusion. But with all the attention paid to the political aims...

…ear in mind that in the modern history of the Middle East, revolution and Arab awakening have long been linked with the Palestinian cause. The recent reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, for example, probably reflected a general desire to take advantage of a propitious histori...