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…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...

…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...

… 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...

…on agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Zahar said that Khalid Meshal did not have any right to say that Hamas would give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas another chance to try to negotiate a peace deal with Israel. In the interview, Zahar reportedly said "we didn't know and we...

…ing challenges have become more difficult since Arafat’s refusal of our offer at Camp David. Arafat is no longer alive. Palestinian politics have become ever more fragmented and messy, not least as a result of the Hamas takeover of Gaza. But Churchill once said that the differen...

… authorities that might have allowed the tragedy to happen. The commission interviewed dozens of witnesses, Israeli and Palestinian, in 31 separate sessions. I knew early on that the inquiry would throw up difficult issues. I was especially upset to learn that two soldiers and th...

…b Spring, which has replaced a pair of U.S.-allied dictatorships with elected Islamist governments. Within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, much has changed since the direct peace talks Obama inaugurated in September 2010 collapsed within weeks. Israel’s recent battle with the...

…cle on Sunday about Campbell Brown’s role as Face- book’s head of news partnerships erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an exam- ple of the sort of far-right conspir- acy stories that have plagued Facebook. In fact, Palestinian offi- cials have acknowledged...

…d demography. Its physical existence is less in doubt than its democratic existence as it continues to rule millions of Palestinians in serf-like conditions — entitled to neither a vote nor a country. The path to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been clear for 20 y...

…e I knew well. When the cabinet convened, he pointed out to the ministers that the London terrorists were from a fringe Palestinian group led by Abu Nidal. Far from being an ally of Arafat, he had been sentenced to death by Fatah. According to Gideon, Begin wasn’t interested in t...

“single territorial unit” under Oslo. In essence, and very probably in name, this meant a Palestinian state. | wasn’t opposed to that in principle, if it was in return for a full and final peace. But the Oslo process meant that we would be handing back land, and control over secu...