Results for “Palestinian Legislative Council”

…ttom up rather than trying to build it at the negotiating table," he says. Its success would prove just how much power Palestinians can, and indeed already do, have in shaping their future. And its failure could prove the exact opposite. I visited Rawabi two weeks ago with a gr...

… a long one. Let the next guy (or gal) worry about it. A Little Leg on Palestine? Obama hasn't mentioned the Israeli- Palestinian conflict ina SOTU speech since 2009. And that's no coincidence. His own poorly thought-through initial effort crashed and burned, leaving the presid...

…cal impetus in driving the process forward came from two men who were not there: on our side, Yossi Beilin, and for the Palestinians, Arafat’s trusted diplomatic adviser, and eventual successor, Mahmoud Abbas, or Abu Mazen. Since Rabin knew I was following the ostensibly secret...

…ad now learned, through Ahrahle and others, what had been pretty obvious since the Mossad’s initial approach. They were Palestinian leaders with ties to Black September. “I think it’s possible,” I finally told them. ““We’ll put a plan in place. We can finalize the arrangements if...

… all the attention. The results generated media debate about the possibility of a shift in Israeli policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians. In fact, the election campaign and its results were centered on domestic and socioeconomic issues, and internal reform. Furthermore, Yesh Atid is...

Israelis and Palestinians, particularly Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But hey, that was then. A second-term president has committed himself early in 2013 to a trip to Israel and has an Energizer bunny in Secretary of State John Kerry, who wants to do the right thing...

…d through a negotiated peace, it would remove Israeli troops and settlers from most of the territory. It would give the Palestinians ample room to set up a state if they so chose, and conceivably to expand its area if some future leader had more of the “Ben-Gurion” in him than Ar...

…s are repressing their own people and to further delegitimize Israel, by making sure it remains a permanent occupier of Palestinians in the West Bank. Have no illusions: The main goal of the rejectionists today is to lock Israel into the West Bank — so the world would denounce i...