The US may have no Plan B, but the Palestinians do
May 20, 2010 Palestinians are saying to ordinary Israelis, “Our policy is not aimed at you or your country but at the extremist settlers whose activities, because they are antithetical to peace, are in the end are as damaging to you as they are to us.” |
The path to a true peace
May 20, 2010 “The logic is simple,” said Dr. Ziad Asali, the visionary and inspiring Palestinian physician who founded and is president of the Washington-based American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP). “If you build it, the state will come.” |
As non-violence takes root, so may a Palestinian state
May 19, 2010 Since most other tactics aimed at creating a Palestinian state have failed, Mr Asali and the Palestinian prime minister seem determined to give non-violence a try. Any chance of success depends upon consistency. |
PA willing to have NATO forces in future state
May 19, 2010 Al-Quds al-Arabi says Palestinian President Abbas will inform special US Middle East envoy that he is willing to have NATO forces monitor future Palestine's borders. |
ATFP Senior Fellow Joins J Street and APN Board Member to Advocate Peace at New Jersey Event
May 18, 2010 Ibish said that while the Palestinian aims and strategy were quite clear, what Israeli leaders want is clouded in shadow and fog since very few Israeli national leaders are willing to describe in any detail their vision for the future. |
PA launches door-to-door settlement good boycott
May 18, 2010 The campaign, which will see over 3,000 volunteers go door-to-door to distribute the first part of a settlement produce guide, is the first leg of the PA's attempts to encourage West Bank residents to implement a wide-ranging boycott of goods made on illegal settlements. |
Leading Jewish and Palestinian American Groups Announce Joint Internship Program
May 17, 2010 APN will host a Palestinian student and ATFP will host an Israeli student. The two interns are part of a group of students who are participating this summer in the first-ever Middle East program of New Story Leadership. |
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment
May 17, 2010 Unless they change course, it portends the future: an American Zionist movement that does not even feign concern for Palestinian dignity and a broader American Jewish population that does not even feign concern for Israel. |
Palestinians turn to boycott of Israel in West Bank
May 17, 2010 PM Fayyad: "We are definitely committed to a path of nonviolent resistance and defiance in the face of the settlement enterprise, and we are defiantly expressing our right to boycott those products and I believe it is working. We will continue to do more." |
Analysts befuddled by Israeli leaders' claims on Jerusalem on eve of peace talks
May 14, 2010 At no point has Israel said that Jerusalem is on the negotiating table. Indeed, quite the reverse, argues Diker. Popular opinion in Israel favors the retention of the entire city as Israeli sovereign territory. |