Results for “Palestinian Authority”

…and the pragmatic mainstream argued that UN endorsement of a Jewish state — no matter what its borders, even with a new Palestinian Arab state alongside it — would represent a historic achievement. The proceedings went on for hours. At sundown, we had to return to the children’s...

…ace columns for cover, we kept shooting. Within a minute or so, only a couple of the cops fired back. Though the three Palestinians could not know the reason for the gunfire and the wailing of the car horn, they were now on their guard. When Mookie had blown open the door to Abu...

…yone.” But I added that I still did not feel anything of a similar nature, or remotely as serious, was happening on the Palestinian side. I also said that in deciding how to proceed, I couldn’t ignore political realities back home. I would have to get any major change in our posi...

… might just as easily have a negative effect. Undoubtedly, the failed peace process has bred extreme frustration among Palestinian militants, some of whom may think that a sharp shock is needed to wrench international attention away from the Arab democratic wave and back to the...

…with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet know that Arik, in particular, had a far more ambitious, military plan to try to bury the possibility of a Palestinian state once an...

…nk He planted bombs in the cars of Arab mayors and plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock. Buying up farmland from the Palestinians beginning in 1979, many of whom were then killed by their own because they were seen as collaborators, Zar and his group of young volunteer settler...

…ll. This was not just because the shape of a final agreement with the Syrians was clearer, to both sides, than with the Palestinians. It was because I was determined to make good on the main specific policy pledge of my campaign: to bring our troops home from Lebanon. No matter w...

…e West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied. “But one of my cabinet ministers thinks that a formula o...

e And the way to do it 1s this: a strong, self-confident Israel, willing to hold serious negotiations with the Palestinians and the group of Arab nations within an international conference, backed by the US and the Quartet — in order to achieve a two- state solution and establish...

…rassed through the legal system by a Muslim who later committed suicide was recently told in The American Spectator (“A Palestinian in Texas,”’ TAS, November 2012). He has been personally threatened but prefers not to talk about specifics except to note that law enforcement has b...

…e importance of what was at stake. Not just the cost of failure, but what was potentially on offer: the creation of the Palestinian state he sought, with the full acceptance of Israel and the support of the world. I wish I could say I was optimistic when Clinton led the two of u...

…of the Arab delegations at the UN voted against partition, rejecting a Jewish state even if it was created along with a Palestinian Arab one. Violence erupted the next day. An attack on a bus near Lydda, near the road up to Jerusalem, left six Jews dead. Similar attacks occurred...

and we do say that to them. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas constantly implores them to stop condoning the firing of rockets. The fact is that there are extremists on both sides.

…ration doesn't support your bid, though it supports using the 1967 lines with swaps as the baseline for the border of a Palestinian state. We urge the U.S. to see it the way it is. We are trying to preserve the two-state solution in the face of an Israeli government that is dete...

support the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the basis of the 1967 lines with its capital in East Jerusalem in parallel with Israel’s recognized capital in West Jerusalem