State for Palestinians and Peace With Israel Left Unrealized
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Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, died early Thursday morning in a Paris hospital, a French military spokesman announced. Mr. Arafat, who was the symbol
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Gaza&#039;s transformation into a battlefield is a tale of lost opportunity and clashing visions.
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Not a single government in the Middle East or in the whole world could have confidently claimed that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meant, through his plan of &quot;disengagement&quot; with the Palestinians, that is Israel&#39;s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
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Arafat&#39;s death raises hopes for a new push for peace. But much depends on who takes charge and how the US responds. Just a few months after Israeli and Palestinian leaders signed the Oslo peace accord in 1993
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It started as a well-planned settling of scores between rival political factions. But by the end of last week Palestinians seemed on the brink of civil war as two conflicting governments vowed to defeat each other.
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Israel is set on a collision course with the European Union and could turn into a pariah state, like South Africa during the apartheid years, if the Mideast conflict is not resolved, Israel's Foreign Ministry warns in a confidential 10-year forecast.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death opens a rare window of opportunity to build a democratic Palestinian state that could live side by side in peace with Israel.
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has brought hope locally for a reopened peace process between Palestine and Israel - and a caution that Israel and the United States have the responsibility
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The Palestinian president symbolized his people&#39;s desire for a homeland, but his corrupt rule and limited vision frustrated their drive for statehood.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that there cannot be peace in the Middle East unless the Palestinians gain a state that satisfies their aspirations.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel is set on a collision course with the European Union and could turn into a pariah state, like South Africa during the apartheid years, if the Mideast conflict is not resolved, Israel's Foreign Ministry warns in a confidential 10-year forecast.
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Recent predictions that the death of Yasser Arafat will usher in a new era of Palestinian peacemaking are, I regret to say, a joke.
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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France stressed that the Middle East peace process has to be pushed forward in a way to establish a viable Palestinian state and make late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s dream come true.
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Since the peace process began at the 1991 Madrid Conference, Gaza has not been a topic for negotiation. That&#39;s because everyone realized that in any peace agreement with the Palestinians there would cease to be an Israeli presence in the Strip.
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Tentative hopes for a revived peace process in the Israel-Palestinian conflict were shattered last night by the collapse of Ariel Sharon&#39;s parliamentary majority and the prospect
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JERUSALEM, Nov 10  - Israel can no longer say it has no viable Palestinian partner for peace talks with the departure of veteran leader Yasser Arafat from the scene, opposition Labour leader Shimon Peres said Wednesday.