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The news of the week in Israel’s bustling capital revolves around Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s policy speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, where Israel formally announced that it would indeed recognize an independent Palestinian state, if it were to be demilitarized and if would recognize Israel as a Jewish state, as proscribed in the “declaration of principles” of the 1993 Oslo accords, which were signed by Israel and the PLO on the White House lawn in September 1993, approved by the Israeli Knesset Parliament, yet never ratified by the PLO.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6651 Western policymakers and media have misconstrued/misrepresented the Palestinian refugee issue, ignoring its global context and core data. Moreover, the Palestinian claim of dispossession -- which impacts the U.S. financial aid to UNRWA, and is...

Hundreds of people gathered at the main junction at the entrance to Ashkelon, Thursday afternoon, to rally against the lack of fortifications in the city to protect residents from ongoing barrages of rockets launched...

Sure, at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention they applauded Colin Powell when he said that settlement activity should be stopped. It is natural that among the 3,000 delegates there were a...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2012/12/jordan-king-abdullah-extremists.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5526 King Abdullah II of Jordan warned against the formation of a new Arab alliance controlled by "extremism." The king openly attacked two Arab states and another regional state for seeking to launch a "new...

Strategic Assessment Volume 7, No. 3, December 2004 Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University The Aims of the Disengagement Plan On April 18, 2004, the Israeli government issued a general outline of its proposed unilateral disengagement...

Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...

The committee set up to evaluate the idea of a unilateral withdrawal from most of the West Bank presented senior political officials with its report in which they raised legal, security and economic difficulties...

Following is a summary of the findings of a survey conducted by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, of the new Palestinian Authority Textbooks. The findings were presented at a press conference held...

I. Introduction A. Why a Palestinian State Constitution More than anything else, the Palestinian State Constitution represents the attempt to present to the world the face of a modern Palestinian state. The constitution is meant to...