Israel-Palestine conflict (Gaza)

  "Peace is not a process. It is a state of being. You either have it or not. The Palestinians have not had peace since 1949. They have been under siege." That is how Trevor Purvis, Carleton University professor of international law summed up the situation of the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and in Israel itself. He was speaking …

  Providence, R.I. — More than 20 years ago, many Americans decided they could no longer watch as racial segregation divided South Africa. Compelled by an injustice thousands of miles away, they demanded that their communities, their colleges, their municipalities, and their government take a stand. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” …

The PA's chief negotiator suggested unprecedented compromises on the division of Jerusalem and its holy sites. Erekat proposed a "creative" solution for the Haram al-Sharif in a private meeting with US envoy George Mitchell.     Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator of the Palestinian Authority (PA), had suggested unprecedented compromises on the division of Jerusalem and its holy sites, the …

Obama administration told Palestinian Authority its leaders must remain in office if it wants to retain US financial backing The Obama administration has privately made clear that it will not allow any change of Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, the leaked papers reveal, let alone any repetition of the Hamas election victory that briefly gave the Islamists control of the Palestinian …

  The Palestine Papers include a rendering of the Israeli land swap map presented in mid-2008 to Mahmoud Abbas.   The Palestinian Authority proposed an unprecedented land swap to the Israeli government, offering to annex virtually all of the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.   Not only did the Israeli government offer no concessions in return, but – as …