Results for “Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad”

…ed the presence of a large American airbase in Qatar, and the country's close relations with the United States. In the Palestinian territories, as in the broader region, the Qataris are supporting secular and religious forces in a way that will maximize their influence and keep...

…ndent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged. It is a fresh Arab initiative that depends neither on America nor Isra...

…pt the form of an apartheid regime, which I think is not what many Israelis want. FP: What is the most important thing Palestinians have learned about Israelis? SE: That Israelis will not take back the ships that brought them here to leave somewhere else. We got to understand t...

…tional due process analysis.” Estates of Ungar v. Palestinan Auth, 153 F.Supp.2d 76, 95 (D.R.1.2001); see also Biton v. Palestinian Interim Self-Gov't Auth. 310 F.Supp.2d 172, 179 (D.D.C. 2004) (dismissing complaint pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2333 because individual defen- dants lac...

…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...

…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...

…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...