Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to head to DC to cover the upcoming AIPAC policy conference. It’s being promoted as “three of the most important days affecting Israel’s future” and I’m looking forward to it. But only two…
Disturbed by reports that Obama wants to impose a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine, rightwing Israeli politician Ya’acov Katz sent Obama c-o-s Rahm Emanuel a letter last week to remind him of his Jewish and Israeli origins. (Emanuel was born here…
One of Bibi Netanyahu’s themes is economic peace for the Palestinians, not political sovereignty. He means, we will include them more in the robust Israeli economy and bring up their standard of living, and they will then accept their political…
Another sign of the Obama administration’s readiness to put pressure on the Israelis. Akiva Eldar in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a condition for renewing peace…
Israeli gov’t tells George Mitchell that the idea of the two-state solution is a “dead end.” Don Nissenbaum of McClatchy reports: Netanyahu has refused to embrace [two states side by side] formula and has instead floated the idea of offering…
Two-state doyen Leonard Fein takes stock of the situation in his latest column for the Forward. Fein outlines how he has moved from the liberal edge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to becoming a “hard liner:” But by now, after two…
An important report (by MJ Rosenberg, picking up Yedioth Ahronoth in Israel) that Obama intends to implement a two-state solution on the Israelis come what may over the next four years–that means the famous imposed solution, in my book– and…
Lanny Davis on Huffpo this morning, saying Netanyahu is a man of peace. I’ll update when I get around to reading it. Have to steel myself.
Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai responding to George Mitchell’s current visit to Israel: The preferable course of diplomatic action at this time is two economies for two peoples and not two states for two peoples. The American emissary also knows…