Mar 29 2013 - 12:41pm Obama Trip Renews Debate over Israeli-Palestinian Solution
March 29, 2013

"Let us focus on less controversial issues, on areas where there is intersection of interest between Palestinians and Israelis, like security coordination, like creating more breathing space for Palestinians in the West Bank, and do some progress there."

Mar 25 2013 - 11:07am Multimedia Resource: Obama's Trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories
March 22, 2013

WATCH: President Barack Obama's press conferences with President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as his remarks to the Israeli people at the Jewish International Convention Center.

Mar 22 2013 - 12:08pm Crowdsourcing Peace
March 22, 2013

By going over the heads of Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Obama is demanding that their people step up.

Mar 21 2013 - 1:31pm ATFP Warmly Welcomes President Obama's Historic Jerusalem Speech
March 21, 2013

"President Obama has issued is a momentous challenge to the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to find ways to work together to translate this vision of peace and prosperity into a reality, and create a future based on security, freedom and prosperity."

Mar 19 2013 - 11:33am As Hamas rises, peace prospects sink, observers say
March 19, 2013

"Hamas' challenge to the PLO is entirely derived from there being some cachet to their argument that negotiations will in fact not yield independence."

Mar 19 2013 - 11:32am Low expectations for Obama's Israel visit
March 19, 2013

Expectations are understandably low. But the U.S. must keep pressing for a two-state solution.

Mar 19 2013 - 11:31am Monarch in the Middle
March 19, 2013

“The practical question is, can Israel exert permanent control over Palestinians who are disenfranchised ad infinitum, or does it eventually become a South Africa, which couldn’t survive as a pariah state?"

Mar 18 2013 - 12:39pm Abbas: Palestinians don't need armed struggle
March 18, 2013

Abbas: Palestinians "don't want to use terror, we don't want to use force. We want to use diplomacy and negotiations."

Mar 18 2013 - 9:25am West Bank settlement leaders seizing control of Israel's housing policy
March 18, 2013

With ministerial appointments complete, it has become clear that the drive to fix the real estate market will be led by those who once at the forefront of the settlement movement.

Mar 18 2013 - 9:22am Of Course Settlements Are Illegal
March 18, 2013

The experience of World War II demonstrated that peoples living under occupation must be protected from having their lands seized from them and colonized through force of arms.


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