Results for “Palestinian Legislative Council”

… undermined the possibility of peaceful relations between the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and Israel. The PLO and the Palestinian Authority were sidelined. They could not claim credit for the move, and thus had scant motivation for supporting it. Instead, militants in Gaza and...

…e peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, about the alternative on the Palestinian side if those who wanted a negotiated peace had nothing but stalemate to show for it. And lives, I insisted, were at stake. Both through closed-door...

…both of us were trying to achieve something hugely important, nothing less than a new relationship between Israelis and Palestinians based on trust. As I would discover in the months ahead — as Yitzhak had found as well — Arafat responded warmly to such general appeals of princip...

…s reservations, as a basis to negotiate a regional agreement. e¢ This will take time. There will be ups and downs. The Palestinians are not an easy interlocutor. No one knows that better than I do.. ¢ This might require long periods of interim agreements and even calculated uni...

…of punishing Gaza and isolating its Hamas government, Egypt is reported to be pushing for a reconciliation of the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. If successful, this could help defuse the current dangerous escalation of violence between Israel on the one side and Ham...

…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...

meaning Palestinian sovereignty over nearly half of

and even some form of Palestinian authority and

though it supports using the 1967 lines with swaps as the baseline for the border of a Palestinian state.

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators gathered in

with a Jewish minority permanently ruling a Palestinian majority

as the Palestinian Media Watch's website has demonstrated for years

the siege has made the Palestinian territories miserable. So

if the siege and the Palestinian suffering continue

this isolated Palestinian coastal enclave is experiencing its first real period of economic growth since the siege they are protesting began in 2007.