Change we can't foresee
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Yossi Alpher - (Opinion) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The conventional wisdom in some circles now holds that Republican gains in last week's US congressional elections will weaken President Barack Obama's hand in trying to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. This is not necessarily so, and for several reasons. |
Change we can't foresee
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Yossi Alpher - (Opinion) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The conventional wisdom in some circles now holds that Republican gains in last week's US congressional elections will weaken President Barack Obama's hand in trying to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. This is not necessarily so, and for several reasons. |
Change we can't foresee
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Yossi Alpher - (Opinion) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The conventional wisdom in some circles now holds that Republican gains in last week's US congressional elections will weaken President Barack Obama's hand in trying to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace process. This is not necessarily so, and for several reasons. |
Netanyahu pushes East Jerusalem settlements
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Americans For Peace Now by Lara Friedman - November 8, 2010 - 1:00am Netanyahu's undeclared period of self-restraint in Jerusalem appears to have come to an end. No new tenders for construction in East Jerusalem had been issued since Vice President Biden's fateful visit to Jerusalem last March, nor had any new construction plans been deposited for public review since that time. Until now. On Thursday of last week new tenders were for the construction of an additional 238 residential units in Pisgat Zeev and Ramot. |
Obama should learn from Clinton
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Akiva Eldar - (Opinion) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The results of the American congressional election place President Barack Obama at a crossroads regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He confronts two options. |
U.S. "deeply disappointed" at Israeli housing plans
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Politico by Laura Rozen - (Analysis) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The United States expressed deep disappointment over Israeli government plans to build 1,300 new housing units in contested East Jerusalem, the State Department said Monday. "We were deeply disappointed by the announcement of advanced planning for new housing units in sensitive areas of East Jerusalem," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told journalists Monday. "It is counterproductive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties." |
U.S. "deeply disappointed" at Israeli housing plans
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Politico by Laura Rozen - (Analysis) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The United States expressed deep disappointment over Israeli government plans to build 1,300 new housing units in contested East Jerusalem, the State Department said Monday. "We were deeply disappointed by the announcement of advanced planning for new housing units in sensitive areas of East Jerusalem," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told journalists Monday. "It is counterproductive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties." |
U.S. "deeply disappointed" at Israeli housing plans
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Politico by Laura Rozen - (Analysis) November 8, 2010 - 1:00am The United States expressed deep disappointment over Israeli government plans to build 1,300 new housing units in contested East Jerusalem, the State Department said Monday. "We were deeply disappointed by the announcement of advanced planning for new housing units in sensitive areas of East Jerusalem," State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told journalists Monday. "It is counterproductive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties." |
Israel Plans 1,000 Housing Units in East Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Isabel Kershner - November 8, 2010 - 1:00am JERUSALEM — Israel has published plans for some 1,000 new housing units in a hotly contested area of Jerusalem, advancing the approval process at a delicate time when the United States is pressing Israel to renew a freeze in settlement construction and get stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians back on track. |