PLO official says two-state solution still possible for Israel, Palestine
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Charleston Gazette
by Kathryn Gregory - February 22, 2011 - 1:00am

A two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians is still possible, but the longer it takes the governing bodies to come to an agreement, the less the solution will satisfy everyone involved, a Palestinian leader told a Charleston audience Tuesday. "Everyday that goes by without an agreement, we get further away from peace," said Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, chief Palestinian Liberation Organization representative to the United States. "[Chances for peace] will be better today than two years down the road."

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Revolution in Egypt should prompt peace talks between Syria and Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Christian Science Monitor
by Bilal Y. Saab - (Opinion) February 14, 2011 - 1:00am

The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the ensuing political transition in Cairo has created a wave of uncertainty over the strategic politics of the Middle East, carrying both risks and opportunities for US interests and allies in the region. One potential and less-than-obvious opportunity is to relaunch peace talks between Syria and Israel.

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Task Force Changes Mideast Debate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jewish Daily Forward
by Nathan Guttman - February 9, 2011 - 1:00am

As developments in Egypt move many Israelis to become more wary of a peace process that will require them to give up occupied land and Jewish settlements on the West Bank, Palestinian advocates for a two-state solution in Washington are struggling to persuade Israel’s supporters that the opposite is true.

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Task Force Changes Mideast Debate
Media Mention of ATFP In The Jewish Daily Forward - February 9, 2011 - 1:00am

As developments in Egypt move many Israelis to become more wary of a peace process that will require them to give up occupied land and Jewish settlements on the West Bank, Palestinian advocates for a two-state solution in Washington are struggling to persuade Israel’s supporters that the opposite is true.

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A search for common ground, against the odds
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from NOW Lebanon
by Hussein Ibish - (Blog) February 8, 2011 - 1:00am

Since its inception in 2003, the American Task Force on Palestine, where I am a senior research fellow, has been trying to help lay the groundwork for an American alliance for a two-state solution. Such an alliance would bring Jewish-American supporters of Israel and their allies, and Arab-American supporters of Palestine and their allies, together to pursue the mutual interests of both peoples – and of course of the United States itself – in a stable peace agreement.

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A search for common ground, against the odds
In Print by Hussein Ibish - NOW Lebanon (Blog) - February 8, 2011 - 1:00am

Since its inception in 2003, the American Task Force on Palestine, where I am a senior research fellow, has been trying to help lay the groundwork for an American alliance for a two-state solution. Such an alliance would bring Jewish-American supporters of Israel and their allies, and Arab-American supporters of Palestine and their allies, together to pursue the mutual interests of both peoples – and of course of the United States itself – in a stable peace agreement.

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Middle East peace process at risk, William Hague says
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News
February 8, 2011 - 1:00am

William Hague, who is touring the region, said it could "lose further momentum" if international focus shifts to countries like Tunisia and Egypt. He urged Israel to avoid "belligerent language" and called for "bold leadership" from the United States. Protests are continuing in Egypt with the aim of ousting the president. Last month, Tunisia's President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali stood down after weeks of anti-government demonstrations.

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Egypt crisis spells trouble for Mideast peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Associated Press
by Josef Federman - February 2, 2011 - 1:00am

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has only recently and grudgingly accepted the idea of an independent Palestinian state next to Israel. With Egypt in flux, efforts to bring this about may soon go into deep freeze. Israel's main concern is whether its peace agreement with Egypt, which underpins its security in a hostile Arab world, can survive without President Hosni Mubarak at the helm.

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The Real 'Palestine Papers' Scandal
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Wall Street Journal
by Michael Weiss - (Editorial) February 1, 2011 - 1:00am

Last week Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera and Britain's Guardian newspaper released a tranche of 1,600 documents that appear to consist of Palestinian negotiators' emails and meeting minutes covering the past 10 years of manic-depressive Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.

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Israel will never get a better deal than the one it rejected
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Gideon Levy - (Opinion) January 27, 2011 - 1:00am

One upon a time there was a farmer who wanted to save on feed. Every day he would reduce the amount of food for his horse, see that it worked, and continue cutting and cutting until the horse had nothing to eat. The horse died. This hackneyed tale has now been revived, emerging from the Palestine Papers leaked to the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera.

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