mideast.blogs.time.com - 1/9/2009
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It was a sign of how the Israeli and American governments lacked interest in the Middle East peace process that when the Arab League adopted a historic, comprehensive peace plan in Beirut in 2002, the offer was completely ignored if not scoffed at. To be fair, President Bush and Prime Minister ...
online.wsj.com - 1/10/2009
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online.wsj.com —
GEORGE E. BISHARAT Israel's current assault on the
Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it...
involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior Israeli political and military leaders may bear personal ...
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George E. Bisharat: Israel Is Committing War Crimes
realclearpolitics.com - 1/9/2009
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realclearpolitics.com —
WASHINGTON -- Israel's leaders have purposely obscured their
war aims in Gaza. But there are only two...
possible endgames: (A) a Lebanon-like cessation of hostilities to be supervised by international observers, or (B) the disintegration of Hamas rule ...
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Two Endgames for Israel
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/9/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
Israel is to keep up its offensive in
the Gaza Strip despite a UN call for an...
immediate end to nearly two weeks of conflict involving Hamas militants. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the latest firing of rockets into Israel showed the resolution was ...
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UN ceasefire call goes unheeded
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Remember the Arab Peace Initiatives
Matthew Yglesias —
... I don’t expect the Israeli government to leap to say yes to this, especially since the idea of a “just settlement” of the refugee issue is in need of definition, but they really ought to be leaping at the opportunity to talk about it. As Scott MacLeod argues, it was a big deal when this was first proposed and it remains a big deal today. Meanwhile, Israel is clearly in need of some kind of political horizon that this military campaign is supposed to be aiming to and a conference to discuss the Arab peace initiative—if only to seek greater clarity on ...
Living Next Door to Antagonists
TPMCafe —
... Third: Hamas and Israel are hardly the only two players in the region. If Israel concludes a peace with Syria--conceptually not so difficult--the collaboration of Damascus resident and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal could be part of it. Meanwhile, Scott MacLeod in a Time blog reminds us that the 2002 Saudi omnibus peace deal proposal is still on the table: ...
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 1/26/2009 — Presumably from a comfy chair somewhere safely out of the line of fire, Max Boot declares the 2002 Arab peace initiative to be “ laughable “:
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House backs Israel's right to defend itself —
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