SOS: Palestine's Private Sector (Part II)
The reality is that there has been no change in American foreign policy regarding Palestine. The U.S., Israel and a few Arab regimes are pursuing the same old policy, which is merely being adjusted...
Everybody knows that there is only one way to strengthen Abu Mazen: immediately to start rapid and practical negotiations for the establishment of the State of Palestine in all the occupied territories, with its capital in East Jerusalem, says Uri Avnery .
The Hamas government crackdown on Mohamed Dahlan's corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip in June appears to mark a turning point in the Bush administration's foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel.
-- The Hamas government crackdown on Fatah MP Mohammed Dahlan's corrupt security forces and affiliated gangs in the Gaza Strip last June appears to represent a turning point in the foreign policy of the US administration of George W. Bush regarding Palestine and Israel.
Diplomacy is back in fashion in the Middle East but talks are taking another form back in the United States as an unexpected force warns negotiators against being too quick to give away the Israeli farm.
More than 30 U.S. evangelical leaders on Friday sent a letter to President George W. Bush saying that they supported the creation of a Palestinian state "that includes the vast majority of the West Bank."
Hezbollah's leader said Saturday that the militant Islamic group's war last summer with Israel has left the U.S. vision of a "new Middle East" in shambles and claimed the guerrilla group was ready to strike Israel again at any time.
American military sources with knowledge of the Middle East expect Lebanon to be the leading destination for al-Qaida volunteers -- not in the wake of an American withdrawal from Iraq, but as of now.
The strategy behind resurgent diplomatic activity to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is beginning to emerge, pointing to the goal of interim statehood for the Palestinians before President George W. Bush's term in office runs out.