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Palestine and Israel in the New Regional Context
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In - September 11, 2013 - 12:00am The United States is striving to achieve Palestinian-Israeli peace amid a backdrop of increasing unrest in the Arab world. To borrow an image from quantum physics, we are speeding up to try to protect the peace process from the powerful gravitational pull of a developing Middle East black hole. |
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Asali to CCTV: Peace Talks Require Change of Attitudes by Both Parties
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In - September 13, 2013 - 12:00am |
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The high price of letting Israel's extremists flourish
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Haaretz - December 15, 2013 - 1:00am Violent assaults, desecrating mosques and churches, uprooting trees, destroying cars, and damaging property - these are all examples of "price tag" attacks carried out by extremist Israeli hooligans against Palestinians, mainly in the occupied territories. |
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Why Palestinians are puzzled by the 'Jewish state' demand
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Haaretz - January 10, 2014 - 1:00am Reportedly one of the key sticking points in negotiations being conducted by Secretary of State John Kerry to try to achieve a framework agreement for peace is Israel's insistence that Palestinians recognize Israel as a 'Jewish state.' |
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Israel Needs Peace with Palestine to Avoid Looming Boycotts
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In - January 28, 2014 - 1:00am The Israeli government is worried, and it has every right to |
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The Road to the Arab Civil State
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Asharq Alawsat - February 9, 2014 - 1:00am After decades of sustained oppression, Arab popular and political culture suddenly tried to assert its full mental and emotional capacities during the recent uprisings that led to the collapse of several tyrannical regimes in the region. |
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Dr. Asali Raises Issue of Palestinian Statehood at the Atlantic Council
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In - February 10, 2014 - 1:00am |
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Video Profile of Dr. Asali from Wattan TV
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In - February 28, 2014 - 1:00am This video profile of Dr. Ziad Asali, President of ATFP, provides a window into Ziad's personal story and offers a warm glimpse of the deep commitments driving him to advance the American national interest in a two-state solution. It was produced in 2012 by the Palestinian Wattan TV station, and is in Arabic with English subtitles. |
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Americans must never ask themselves, ‘Who Lost Egypt?’
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Asharq Alawsat - March 1, 2014 - 1:00am After 4,500 years, the great pyramids of Giza are the only surviving wonder of the ancient world. The armies of Persia, the Hyksos, Alexander the Great, Rome, the Arabs, the Ottomans and the British camped in their shadow. It was in Egypt, that melting pot of Asian, African and Mediterranean cultures, that Napoleon Bonaparte addressed his soldiers in 1798. Humbled by the mightiness of the pyramids, he began, “French soldiers . . . |
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ATFP President Ziad Asali says US Seeking to Salvage Peace Talks
Media Mention of Ziad Asali In Al-Arabiya - March 19, 2014 - 12:00am Speaking to Al-Arabiya TV, Asali emphasized that current Israeli demands ask more than Pres. Abbas can deliver based on Palestinian public opinion. |