Feb 10 2014 - 11:11am Asali:The Road to the Arab Civil State
February 10, 2014

There is a historic opportunity for a new, galvanized Arab intellectual life to inform and participate in empowering a new consciousness that embraces the inescapable reality of global competition and the urgent need for Arabs to raise the levels of efficiency and professionalism in their societies.

Feb 7 2014 - 1:48pm Current peace efforts should not fail
February 7, 2014

The present round of negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, seen as perhaps the last chance to rescue the two-state solution and achieve durable peace, should not be allowed to fail.

Feb 7 2014 - 1:46pm Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes at 5-year high - aid groups
February 7, 2014

Aid agencies working in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem expressed alarm on Friday at a spike in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian property coinciding with renewed U.S.-backed peace negotiations.

Feb 7 2014 - 1:43pm Israel evacuates protests from key West Bank site
February 7, 2014

The Israeli military has removed Palestinian activists protesting at a deserted village in the West Bank whose final status is a central issue in U.S.-mediated peace talks with Israel.

Feb 6 2014 - 1:20pm Michael Young says the ongoing tumults in the Middle East will not redraw the Sykes-Picot borders.
February 6, 2014

Recently, a prominent Lebanese politician well attuned to the twists and turns of the Middle East expressed concern...[that] peacekeeping forces could serve to harden current lines of separation, facilitating a formal partition of Syria.

Feb 6 2014 - 1:14pm Matthew Duss says its entirely “defensible and necessary” to support boycotts against the Israeli occupation.
February 6, 2014

The recent contretemps over actress Scarlett Johansson’s work for an Israeli company...highlights the need for American progressives to speak more clearly and explicitly about the policy outcome they’d like to see.

Feb 6 2014 - 12:58pm Israel’s chief negotiator Livni criticizes “hypocrites” in the government on the peace process.
February 6, 2014

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni blasted on Thursday Israeli "hypocrites" whose actions could threaten to derail the ongoing peace process with the Palestinians, Israel Radio cited her as saying Thursday at a conference at Bar-Ilan University.

Feb 5 2014 - 3:09pm Israeli occupation authorities approve 600 new settlement housing units in occupied East Jerusalem.
February 5, 2014

Israeli planners on Wednesday gave final approval for 558 apartments in Jewish settlements in war-won east Jerusalem, which is sought by the Palestinians as a capital, officials said.

Feb 5 2014 - 2:29pm Peter Beinart questions the commitment of pro-Israel American groups to a two-state solution.
February 5, 2014

Peter Beinarts states that the pro-Israel American community's failure to object to continued settlement growth puts their support for a two-state solution on questionable footing

Feb 5 2014 - 1:47pm Jordan is worried about the fallout from Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
February 5, 2014

Jordanian leaders are wary that any US brokered peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians will lead to an influx of new Palestinian refugees into their country


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