Results for “Peace Corps”

…feated Arab states was gone for good. We assumed that inevitably, inexorably, they would realize they needed to sue for peace, and that there was no particular urgency on our part to do anything more than wait. Then, on Yom Kippur 1973, all of that had been turned on its head. We...

…as if I was reading from a zoology textbook about species of polar bears. This was a man who had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What he really deserved was an Oscar. But people were dying. Needlessly. We ended up agreeing to a US-led fact- finding commission, as well as a n...

…m Quarter of the Old City. His one caveat was that we should not do any of this unless it was part of a genuine, final, peace agreement with the Palestinians. Danny Yatom urged us to move beyond our emotions and look for a practical solution. “We all know how the boundaries of J...

…er a pair of negotiators from each side overnight. Their task would be to search honesty for the outlines of a possible peace agreement. They were to update Arafat and myself and then report to Clinton the next day. Then, we’d see where we were. I agreed to send Shlomo and Gili S...

/ BARAK / 81 with Arafat still mute and unresponsive. That was the only way we could know with certainty whether peace was possible. If it wasn’t, it would also demonstrate powerfully to the Americans that we were not the party who had prevented an agreement. The President came...

/ BARAK / 69 municipal functions and daily life would be divided between Israel and the Palestinians under a peace agreement. When I convened our negotiators in my cabin to take stock of the logjam, I was getting more and more skeptical of finding a way to get to actual negotia...

… had deviated from a shared pledge that Jerusalem would remain Israel’s undivided, sovereign capital under any eventual peace agreement. Yet when I met Clinton the next morning in Laurel Lodge, he insisted we had to find some room for flexibility. He said that, of course, Israel...

…pport candidates — Rabin in 1992, and Bibi the last time around — who they felt were likely to take a tough line in any peace negotiations with the Arabs. I was never going to get the backing of many West Bank settlers, or of core supporters of the Likud and parties even further...

4, / Presidential Press Bulletin 16 May, 2011 Anicle 1 | The Weekly Standard The Illusion of Peace with Syria Elliott Abrams Article 2. | The Daily Star A democratic Arab world would welcome peace with Israel Hamid Alkifaey AricleS-’ The Daily Beast The Awkward Exit of Mi...

… in Egypt against President Morsi. Egyptian Army removes President Morsi from power. Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington facilitated by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. Rami Hamdallah forms a new Palestinian Government. Opening in The Hague...

…l party, which includes the former Prime Minister of Australian, Kevin Rudd, and Thorbjorn Jaglandthe head of the Noble Peace Prize Committee, who offers an affable, but general scathing, critique of U.S. diplomacy (and a brief defense of Obama’s Peace Prize award) and to whom Ep...

…gh, cannot be those of apartheid, but those of freedom. FP: What do you expect from the next Israeli government on the peace process? SE: I don't think there is room for optimism, but our position hasn't changed. We don't see any other solution than a two-state solution. Any Is...

… being comical. But in fact the whole thing is farcical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is "the greatest threat to world peace", intoned constantly from on high, in the media, everywhere. There is also such a thing as world opinion, as measured by such ultra-radicals as Gallup. It...

…rned 18. | thought he was awesome. ’Virginia said that yet another American liberal icon, President Obama’s Middle East peace envoy Senator George Mitchell, frequently visited Epstein’s New York residence. Mr Mitchell, aged 77 — who previously led America’s Northern Ireland peace...

“So basically, the Iranians are acting like the Israelis — they want peace, and they want to keep the land.” Other analysts, while conceding any progress would be slow, had somewhat more positive forecasts on the Syrian front. [Syria] is a tough one to happen quickly, but at le...