Last Call For A Two-state Solution
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from International Herald Tribune
by Immanuel Wallerstein - (Opinion) November 8, 2007 - 3:32pm

The prevailing worldwide view of how to resolve politically the conflict of two nationalisms in Israel/Palestine is the so-called two-state solution - the creation of two states, Israel and Palestine, within the boundaries of the onetime British Mandate of Palestine. Actually, this position is not at all new. One might argue that it was the prevailing worldwide position throughout the 20th century.

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Analysis: Rice's Shuttle Diplomacy
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from World Peace Herald
by Claude Salhani - (Blog) November 8, 2007 - 3:30pm

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has borrowed a chapter or two from Henry Kissinger's book of applied negotiations as she headed back out to the Middle East for her eighth visit to the region in the last six months. 

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'failure Risks Devastating Consequences'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Review Of Books
by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton , Carla Hills , Nancy Kassebaum-baker , Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft - (Commentary) November 8, 2007 - 3:27pm

The following letter on the Middle East peace conference scheduled for Annapolis, Maryland, in late November, was sent by its signers on October 10 to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The statement is a joint initiative of the US/Middle East Project, Inc. (General Brent Scowcroft, chairman, International Board, and Henry Siegman, president), the International Crisis Group (Gareth Evans, president), and the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program (Steven Clemons, director).

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Mideast Religious Leaders Say They Vital To Peace
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Deborah Charles - November 8, 2007 - 3:22pm

In an unusual joint appearance, senior Israeli and Palestinian religious leaders said on Wednesday they were not a roadblock to peace in the Middle East but a vital part of the process. Dressed in traditional religious garb, the chief rabbis of Israel sat alongside Muslim leaders and Christian patriarchs and said they had agreed on steps to help resolve the conflict.

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Yigal Amir's Thousands Of Sons
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
(Editorial) November 6, 2007 - 1:01pm

It is no coincidence that the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies stands deserted, while on the soccer fields, the murderer is cheered and the victim is booed.

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Should American Jews Have A Voice In Shaping Israel's Policies?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Shmuel Rosner - (Blog) November 6, 2007 - 1:00pm

1. The debate, or you might want to call it a war, over the role American Jews should play in Israeli politics is about to enter yet another round.

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Misguided Priorities
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jordan Times
November 6, 2007 - 12:57pm

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni recently told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that her country’s security comes ahead of the establishment of the Palestinian state. Livni cannot be more wrong. Her perception of realities and her grasp of politics, as expressed in these utterances, show poor statesmanship.

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Repeating The Same Mistakes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons
by Ghassan Khatib - (Opinion) November 6, 2007 - 12:56pm

The Syrian connection to the current American initiative on the Middle East to convene a political meeting at Annapolis in the autumn is a good illustration of its deteriorating value.

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Annapolis: Behind The Scenes
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Le Monde Diplomatique
by Dominique Vidal - November 6, 2007 - 12:55pm

“It’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” announced US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after a visit to the Middle East on 15 October. She claimed President George Bush had decided to make ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “one of the highest priorities of his administration”.

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Patriarchs, Property, And Politics In Jerusalem
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Donald Macintyre - November 6, 2007 - 12:54pm

His Beatitude, Theophilus III, "Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Holy Zion" – to give him his full and ancient title – is nothing if not hospitable.

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