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Category Archives: Palestinian, Israeli Conflict
Let’s All Just Get Along (Without Historians)
by Jeff Pozmantier on December 20, 2010[singlepic id=437 w=320 h=240 float=right]
The longer the Palestinians and Israelis fail to settle their issues — they can’t even agree on how to talk about talking — the more selective historians we create. Historians who are, with complete certainty, able to recite chapter and verse about their version of history.
Unfortunately, this isn’t a zero sum history game; it doesn’t matter whose version of history is more correct.
A peace deal doesn’t require establishing who was in historic Palestine first or for a longer continuous period. It doesn’t require analyzing whether (what the
The Present and the Future of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict
So where are the Palestinians and Israelis going to? Do they still have a chance to achieve something through negotiations or the current indicators show that[singlepic id=435 w=320 h=240 float=right] there is no way that peace can be achieved? What is it that both peoples want and what is the effect that both leaderships are leaving on their peoples? Is the two states solution valid or it stopped to be vital choice?
Many questions that can be easily answered but many prefer not to because of the difficult answers that would be found out. The International community is almost convinced that the peace talks failed and that it is impossible that both sides would reach a solution in the next year. The American administration
Unusual Facts and Figures (Part 1)
By Jeff Pozmantier[singlepic id=430 w=320 h=240 float=right]
My occupation (the pecuniary one, not a West Bank settlements one) is selling property and casualty insurance to motorsports sanctioning organizations. So I do know some unusual facts and figures that you’ll never be able to find in an Internet search engine. There’s the racer in Puerto Rico who lost, shall we say, a private body part to a collision with another racer. He was disappointed when he found out that the insurance company did not view that part to be worth what he or his wife did. But, if you were to ask me how many similar body parts have been lost in drag racing accidents In Puerto Rico, and what the value per part is, I would be your guy.
Peace talks? Hope or is it the End?
The peace process seems to be reaching its last moments between the Israelis and the Palestinians. [singlepic id=420 w=320 h=240 float=right] All the attempts, which were made to make a kind of an improvement between the two sides, brought no outcome at all. The American administration that was sure a couple of years ago that peace can be achieved in a short period realized that the situation is more difficult in reality.
The Israeli current government continues to gain time by turning the situation from a negotiations process in order to reach a solution into talks about whether to freeze the unlawful settlements building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. On the ground, the Israeli government continues to work and
Palestine 2011 By Jeff Halper
Struggling as I have for the past decades to grasp the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and find ways to get out of this interminable and [singlepic id=419 w=320 h=240 float=right] absolutely superfluous conflict, I have been two-thirds successful. After many years of activism and analysis, I think I have put my finger on the first third of the equation: What is the problem? My answer, which has withstood the test of time and today is so evident that it elicits the response…“duh”…is that all Israeli governments are unwaveringly determined to maintain complete control of Palestine/Israel from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, frustrating any just and workable solution based on Palestinian claims to self-determination. There will be no negotiated settlement, period.
The (missing) American Letter
Source: Aljazeera Blogs[singlepic id=416 w=320 h=240 float=right]
Writer: Shireen Tadros
We’ve all been warned to expect postal delays after the recent parcel bomb scare, but I’m not sure we can blame DHL for the delay in the so-called US ‘letter of incentives’ getting to Israel.
The letter is meant to formalise the offer communicated last Thursday by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister.
Ir Amim November Report
Walajeh: A Village Under Siege [singlepic id=415 w=320 h=240 float=right]
Recently, authorities have begun preparing for the construction of the separation barrier around Walajeh village, along Jerusalem’s southern municipal boundaries. The route of the barrier is expected to completely envelop the village and cut it off from most of its agricultural land.
A new report by Ir Amim describes the unfolding of events regarding the construction of the separation barrier around Walajeh, including the legal complexities and the various entities that play a role in this critical and disturbing development. To read the full report.
