ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
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August 17, 2009
"Human Rights Watch Gets It"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Equal treatment is the key to a breakthrough in Arab-Israeli peace-making, whether in assessing conduct in war or crafting a permanent peace agreement that acknowledges the historical traumas of both sides.
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August 10, 2009
"A Pro-Israel Panic"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Key elements in the pro-Israel lobby in the United States are attacking the internationally respected former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson -- who President Obama will give the Presidential Medal of Honor award for her humanitarian work. That is a pretty strong sign of panic in reaction to the Obama administration.
August 5, 2009
"Zionist Colonialism, Palestinian 'Trauma'"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
If Israelis really want to coexist with the Arabs, they will have to summon the courage and honesty to admit how Zionism dismembered Arab Palestine in 1947-48, and Jews everywhere must finally break the ugly bond between Zionism and colonialism.
August 3, 2009
"Revitalizing Palestinian Unity"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The challenge facing the Palestinian people today -- the total revalidation and revitalization of their national political structures and leadership -- is at least five-fold.
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July 29, 2009
"Obama's Jaha to Israel"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The Obama jaha of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell, National Security Adviser James Jones and White House senior adviser Dennis Ross aims simultaneously to impress, comfort, pressure and woo the Israeli government to accept the terms of engagement in the Arab-Israeli peace-making process that the United States has unilaterally put on the table.
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July 27, 2009
"A Way To Resolve The Jerusalem Impasse"
Op-Ed, CBSNews.com
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...[T]he best solution is a federal system of boroughs similar to the states of the US, and a unified Jerusalem authority, similar to the US federal government.
The borders of the municipality of Jerusalem would include everything that it does now and also nearby Palestinian cities such as Abu Dis. Some boroughs would naturally be majority Palestinian, others naturally majority Jewish, but free and fair borough elections would ensure proportionate representation on each."
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July 26, 2009
"What Israel Needs from Palestinians"
Op-Ed, The Providence Journal
By Nir Eisikovits and Ehud Eiran, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"The demand for recognition as articulated by Prime Minister Netanyahu leaves more to be desired. While he demanded recognition for Israel, he granted none to the Palestinians. If Israel's prime minister wanted the most basic aspects of his people's national story acknowledged, he should have reciprocated in kind."
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July 13, 2009
"Hoping the Next 100 Days Go Better"
Op-Ed, The Jerusalem Post
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"...[I]t was clear from day one that Obama intended to reach out to the Arab world and attempt a breakthrough toward peace. Netanyahu, who professes to 'understand American,' should have done everything in his power to align himself with the new administration's agenda. Instead, his obstinacy led to a glaring crack in relations with the US, a cardinal pillar of Israeli national security, and exposed an unprecedented degree of mutual alienation."
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June 17, 2009
"Nothing New from Netanyahu"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Netanyahu wants for the Israelis today what God promised the ancient Hebrews in Deuteronomy, Exodus and Numbers: eternal, exclusive, pure, powerful, secure statehood in a land owned by others that will be miraculously ethnically cleansed with Divine mandate and legitimacy.
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June 16, 2009
"Bibi Answers Obama"
Op-Ed, Human Events
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"In his recent speech to the Muslim world, Obama set a new course for U.S. policy in the region and in so doing challenged Netanyahu to join him in the effort, or risk American ire. Poor Bibi. During his first two months, he caused gratuitous tension with Obama by refusing to explicitly endorse a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and thereby convinced many that Israel, rather than the Palestinians, is the obstacle. Bibi knows that he cannot afford confrontation and that Israel must align itself with any administration."
