Israel Resource Review

www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=216259 Jerusalem - Ma'an - The time has come for Fatah, Palestine's largest political party, to seek a strategic alliance with Iran, the movement's Jerusalem affairs liaison Hatim Abdul Qader told Ma'an on Saturday. In a statement, Abdul...

The New Israel Fund most recently told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it would never cross “four red lines”: http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/24/1006776/new-israel-funds-red-lines • Engaging in racist behavior. • Demonizing any particular group. • Using or advocating violence as a means...

Saudi Initiative - based on flooding Israel with Arab refugees from 1948 - along with their descendents This week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised the nation of Bahrain for endorsing the Saudi Peace Initiative, also...

The Center for American Progress, an influential think tank in Washington, suggests internationalizing the city and in practice, expropriating it from Israel.

The center is headed by John Podesta who was White House chief of staff in the Clinton era. A founder and prominent member is Mara Rudman, who will now head the team of special US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell.

One indication of its influence is the fact that some of its recommendations were put into practice by the administration immediately after Obama assumed office.

In early June, when President Obama was making his Cairo speech, the center discussed the question of sovereignty in Jerusalem. The basic assumption was that the city's status was the main obstacle to reaching an agreement, not just between Israel and the Palestinians but also between Israel and the Arab world. In the course of the conference a plan of Windsor University in Canada was discussed. It was presented by Michael Bell, former Canadian ambassador to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. Bell is also a close friend of Dan Kurtzer, the former American ambassador to Israel, and who a source in Jerusalem says is pushing strongly for adopting the Canadian plan.

The assumption behind the plan is that neither Israel nor the PA can be expected to concede even a millimeter of their demand for sovereignty over the Old City. The way out of the impasse, say the people behind the initiative, is to put aside the question of sovereignty and in the meantime, act for the establishment of a special administration in Jerusalem that would be run by a third party acceptable to both sides

I read the report that quoted an American official who described President Obama's meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. It was evident from the report that despite the president's amazing powers of persuasion,...

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Overview 1. Iranian media and spokesmen continue to demonize Israel, accusing it of complicity with the West in plotting against Iran. The so-called plots pertain both to Iran 's internal affairs (such as the recent...

I recently had my second opportunity in Sderot to host a group from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). EAPPI is a program supported and funded by the Geneva-based World Council...

Jerusalem; The PLO and Hamas web sites have worked over time in the last few days, proclaiming that Philadelphia Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Rabbi Shai Gluskin had organized a fast day on Thursday (see...

On July 6, I traveled to Geneva to testify before the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. Participating in the delegation were Ashkelon Mayor Benny Vaknin, Dr Alan Marcus, director of...