Palestine: A cause or a state? jns.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jns.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Why did Hamas trigger the current tragedy that has given the old Israel-Palestine conflict an even deadlier dimension? And what are the chances for shooing the two sides away from the edge of the abyss? The tsunami comments on the latest episode shows that the Israel-Palestine conflict remains a template on which advocates of rival ideologies project their fantasies and prejudices. Why did Hamas trigger its attack out of the blue? Hamas apologists repeat the usual shibboleths: occupation, colonial settlements, expulsions, Apartheid, the two-state solution.
Palestinian Women at the Crossroads of Mideast Peace lilith.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lilith.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the Israeli government held a cabinet meeting last May in a tunnel underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, I remembered asking the late Yasser Arafat, in 2000, about the reasons behind the failure of his latest round of talks with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, under the auspices of President Bill Clinton. Arafat had relayed, with Dr. Nabil Shaath’s presence, that Barak demanded Israeli