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Returning to our references
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Ghassan Khatib - (Opinion) April 4, 2011 - 12:00am Palestinians look at the approaching September deadline as a very critical and decisive crossroads. It is the end of the one-year time-frame for the bilateral negotiations that started upon the initiative of the United States last September. It is also the end of the two-year plan of the Palestinian government for achieving national readiness for statehood. |
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Returning to our references
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Ghassan Khatib - (Opinion) April 4, 2011 - 12:00am Palestinians look at the approaching September deadline as a very critical and decisive crossroads. It is the end of the one-year time-frame for the bilateral negotiations that started upon the initiative of the United States last September. It is also the end of the two-year plan of the Palestinian government for achieving national readiness for statehood. |
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In Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - April 2, 2011 - 12:00am With revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East, Israel is under mounting pressure to make a far-reaching offer to the Palestinians or face a United Nations vote welcoming the State of Palestine as a member whose territory includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. |
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Fed-up Palestinians turn from US to find other providers of answers
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The National by Omar Karmi, Hugh Naylor - March 31, 2011 - 12:00am With the American administration consumed by popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, US efforts to push forward a Palestinian-Israeli peace process, already stalled, have receded further into the background. Palestinians, despondent with Washington's efforts, are in turn trying to energise their pursuit of alternatives to their overreliance on US meditation. In the process, the Palestinians risk angering not only Israel, but also the US, which remains an important donor to the Palestinian Authority. |
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Colombia: We will not recognize Palestinian state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gil Shefler - March 31, 2011 - 12:00am After suffering a series of diplomatic defeats to the Palestinians in Latin America, Israel won a rare victory on Wednesday when Colombia announced that it would not unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón told a delegation of the World Jewish Congress in a meeting in the Colombian capital of Bogota that his government would not recognize Palestinian statehood as “a matter of principle.” |
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Fayyad: Peaceful resistance advancing Palestinian state
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Ben Hartman - March 30, 2011 - 12:00am Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said that Palestinian non-violent popular resistance of the West Bank barrier has been successful in convincing the world to reconsider the Palestinian cause and advanced the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, in a radio address commemorating "Land Day" on Wednesday. "Land remains the core of the Palestinian cause, and the reason for our existence and future," Fayyad said. "We [have been] here since the very beginning and we are certainly staying until the very end." |
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Palestinians to ask UN recognition in September
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua March 30, 2011 - 12:00am The Palestinian leadership will ask the United Nations to recognize the Palestinian state in September despite Israeli objection, Foreign Affairs Minister Riad al-Maliki said Wednesday. The Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council to recognize an independent Palestinian state on the lands that Israel occupied in the 1967 war, al-Maliki was quoted by local Al- Ayyam newspaper as saying. |
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Encountering Peace: Palestine is inevitable
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by Gershon Baskin - (Opinion) March 28, 2011 - 12:00am Palestine is becoming a reality, whether we like it or not. The Palestinian Authority may not be increasing its sovereignty over a single centimeter of land, but the awareness of the emergence of the State of Palestine is spreading all over the world. The government of Israel might believe it has a veto over this process; it may believe it can prevent Palestine from becoming more than a “virtual” state, but it cannot. The battle to prevent Palestinian statehood has been lost, and Israel had better come to terms with this emerging reality. |
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How Palestinians will use the GA to advance statehood
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Jerusalem Post by David Horovitz - (Opinion) March 25, 2011 - 12:00am Early in the Korean War, frustrated that the Soviet Union’s repeated use of its UN Security Council veto was thwarting council action to protect South Korea, the United States initiated what became known as the UN General Assembly’s “Uniting for Peace” resolution. |
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Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad: 'An Independent Palestine Is in Israel's Interest'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Huffington Post by Elisabeth Braw - (Interview) March 23, 2011 - 12:00am "On August 26 there will be a Palestinian state, and it will be open to all," says Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in exclusive Metro interview. He's the Prime Minister of the Palestine National Authority. But traveling between his office in Ramallah and his Jerusalem home, Salam Fayyad must nonetheless pass Israeli military checkpoints. |