February 1, 2011 - 4:09pm Ziad Asali in the Huffington Post: The Arab citizen stands up for his dignity.
February 1, 2011

"The rights of the ordinary citizen are here to stay. The global system which preached reform as it protected autocrats has reached its own limits. The leaders of yesterday, and today, who do not heed and amend will be cast away..."

January 28, 2011 - 4:27pm Olmert Memoir Cites Near Deal for Mideast Peace
January 28, 2011

"Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, says in new memoirs that he and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, were very close to a peace deal two years ago..."

January 28, 2011 - 4:14pm "Israel’s apartheid image"
January 28, 2011

"...as long as the occupation persists, it won’t matter how much democracy we have within the Green Line..."

January 26, 2011 - 4:33pm Abbas to Peres: We must not kill the peace process
January 26, 2011

Abbas: "We have to stand like a wall against those provocative forces that seek to delegitimize the Palestinian Authority and thereby derail the peace process. We have to stand together against such forces..."

January 26, 2011 - 4:40pm A Palestinian View: International legality is not up for a vote
January 26, 2011

While the idea of a referendum is legitimate for both parties, neither it nor for that matter negotiations should be over principles already established in international legality, such as the need to end the occupation that started in 1967.

January 26, 2011 - 4:23pm Good News From the Middle East (Really)
January 26, 2011

We tend to forget, amid the welter of commentary about Palestinian incitement and Israeli belligerence, that we have recently seen startling shifts in both Israeli and Palestinian attitudes on the need for compromise.

January 25, 2011 - 1:04pm Gaza's Hamas rulers ban 2 'anti-Islamic' books
January 25, 2011

It wasn't known exactly what was deemed offensive about Egyptian Alaa al-Aswany's "Chicago," which describes the lives of Egyptian immigrants in the US, but it has been criticized for portraying a romantically involved unmarried couple.

January 25, 2011 - 12:46pm Turkey-Israel relations to remain strained after Israeli flotilla report
January 25, 2011

Hugh Pope: "I don't think many people in Israel are actually aware of the enormity of what happened out there and they certainly don't seem to feel it. I mean nine people were killed on the high seas."

January 25, 2011 - 12:40pm Palestinians insist leaked memos from peace process reveal nothing new
January 25, 2011

Al-Omari said the release of the confidential documents, which had “ambushed” the Palestinian Authority, may have been calculated to destabilize the Abbas government and spark “another Tunis,” ...“It has spectacularly failed to do that."

January 24, 2011 - 2:44pm President Barack Obama’s efforts in the Middle East hit deep freeze
January 24, 2011

“Every leader faces difficult politics — the question for both sides is whether they’re willing to make tough choices that are in their interests despite the politics,” said a White House official of both Netanyahu and Abbas.


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