Results for “Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas”

/ BARAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junior aide who served the tea and sweets. At least this time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was reall...

…11 -- The reconciliation agreement signed in April between Fatah and Hamas, which called for the creation of an interim Palestinian unity government followed by elections later this year, raises a number of difficult issues for the United States. Among these is whether Washington...

…and let them know that there will be a heavy price should they attack any of the outlying settlements.” In other words, Palestinian unilateral action would prompt unilateral Israeli action. “And the confrontation will begin.” Clinton seemed, if not completely revived, considerab...

/ BARAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junior aide who served the tea and sweets. At least this time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was reall...

…wer. Again, not full acceptance necessarily, but agreement to treat the proposals as a basis for negotiating an Israeli-Palestinian peace. Arafat’s answer came shortly before dawn. It was “no”. Clinton couldn’t quite believe it. He went back to see Arafat, telling him he was mak...

…moment of truth.” But only if he could “shake” Arafat, and get him to sense the enormity of the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence. And if it did come to armed conflict? “When the people of Israel will understand how far we...

… differences with the enemy. Just this week, an disingenuous report was issued by an NGO drawing an equivalence between Palestinian and Israe li schoolbooks claiming that both sides have their relativistic “ narratives.” Yet, as the Palestinian Media Watch’s website has demonstra...

… differences with the enemy. Just this week, an disingenuous report was issued by an NGO drawing an equivalence between Palestinian and Israe li schoolbooks claiming that both sides have their relativistic “ « narratives.” Yet, as the Palestinian Media Watch’s website has demonst...

…and let them know that there will be a heavy price should they attack any of the outlying settlements.” In other words, Palestinian unilateral action would prompt unilateral Israeli action. “And the confrontation will begin.” Clinton seemed, if not completely revived, considerab...

…ost-revolutionary Egypt to be more assertive in its ties with Israel and the West. The Gushing Wound of Palestine The Palestinian question has been at the heart of the Arab political discourse for the last seven decades. The 1979 peace deal between Egypt and Israel ushered in a...

The group had a chance to visit with Bashar Masri, the Nablus-born founder and CEO of Massar International, the Palestinian conglomerate financing a third of Rawabi. Massar and Qatar Diar, the real estate investment arm of the government of Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, jointly...

…moment of truth.” But only if he could “shake” Arafat, and get him to sense the enormity of the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence. And if it did come to armed conflict? “When the people of Israel will understand how far we...

but the Palestinians are divided over the fundamental question of the Palestinian nation's identity. Fatah sees itself as part of a secular Arab world that is on the defensive. Hamas envisions the Palestinian nation as an Islamic state forming in the context of a region-wide Isla...

…r, aware of the political risk he’d be taking. Like Dennis, the President tried to probe my position on land swaps, and Palestinian sovereignty for at least some Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Finally, he asked if I would rule out those possibilities if they represented the dif...

…be in the new American negotiating paper. It was Camp David-plus. Assuming all issues in a final peace were agreed, the Palestinians would now end up, after a land swap near Gaza, with a “mid-90- percent” share of the West Bank. On Jerusalem, the guiding principle would be “what...