Even those who insist on supporting Israel at any cost cannot now genuinely pretend that Palestine is not back on the agenda despite Israel's best efforts to crush the peace process.
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Conditions aside, Lapid’s reference to a Palestinian state remains interesting and politically risky. Indeed, the majority of Israelis - 58 percent, according to the Israel Democracy Institute – do not support a Palestinian state.
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Mark Regev speaks to reporters in Washington (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
In October, Mark Regev addressed Cambridge University students at its famous Debating Union. The event was recently uploaded onto YouTube, and of particular interest is the Q&A (beginning 27 minutes in). The questions are predominantly critical, or sceptical, and Regev has to shoot from the hip.
(MEE) Hamas is to propose the establishment of a Palestinian state along 1967 borders, after decades of demanding the reclamation of the entirety of historic Palestine, the group confirmed on Thursday.
However, it denies reports that it plans to disown the Muslim Brotherhood, amid suggestions that it is hoping to soften its image in a bid for international legitimacy.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
(REPORT) — The goal of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank was thrown into confusion on Wednesday as Donald Trump said he was neither committed to its existence nor against a “one-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Washington on February 15, 2017, for an official visit with United States President Donald J. Trump.
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“Let it be clear to any company or organization that’s considering boycotting us: We will hit back. We will attack our attackers. We will boycott our boycotters.” Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the leader of her Jewish Home party
“De-legitimization of Israel must be fought, and you are on the front lines. It’s not about this or that Israeli policy. It’s about our right to exist here as a free people.” Netanyahu during an emergency summit to address BDS.
View of the entrance of Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, on the edge of Damascus (Photo: Carole Alfarah Agence France-Presse)
if Hamas and Fatah were to put aside their political differences, even just long enough to help their fellow refugees in Lebanon achieve dignity and elementary civil rights this mutual reconciliation effort would likely soon lead to wider Hamas-Fatah unity and intensify solidarity among the Palestinian refugee community and accelerate return to their homeland, Palestine.
Image: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman
The Zionist obsession with the presence of non-Jews in historical Palestine is as old as Israel itself. First Israeli Prime Minister, the Polish David Ben Gurion, lamented in 1948 on their failure to “clear the entire central Galilee region” of the Palestinians.
