Israeli source: Obama failed regional peace effort

Among Jews, younger ones are less attached to Israel than older ones. What should any lover of Israel do? My friends told me that a hooded anti-Israel student had run up to the booth from behind, torn down the poster, yelled expletives, and run off. The answer to the perplexed is to fight Jewish maximalists at home and Arab maximalists overseas. So during this Palestine Awareness Week, we wanted to be a part of showing another, more nuanced perspective, and to make sure that the pro-Israel coalition at UW includes a progressive, pro-peace voice. These are the Jewish maximalists. It is important to keep in mind, however, that Trump was only referring to new settlement building and not existing settlements in the occupied West Bank, which now number 130, are populated by 400,000 settlers, and along with their regional councils, constitute nearly 40 percent of the West Bank. They are republished from a number of sources, and are not produced by MintPress News.

“How can we secure for Jews, wherever they may live, the same rights and opportunities enjoyed by non-Jews?”

Nor did Trump abandon the two-state solution.

“There’s a real danger because most evangelicals are very hawkish and hardline on Israel”, said Dov Waxman, a political scientist at Northeastern University who studies American Jews and Israel.

Those words were welcomed at the time by the Israeli right but denounced by Palestinians, who seek a state of their own. He also said that he was not convinced that either Israel or the Palestinians were serious about an agreement and that he had greater concerns about one of the sides, but refused to say which side.

Palestinian President’s Advisor for diplomatic affairs Majdi Khalidi said that a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital is anchored in worldwide law. When my parents talk about the loss they have experienced since 1948, including separation from family members who have been dispersed to different corners of the world, I am overwhelmed with sadness and desperation.

As police took them out, they sang, “Olam chesed yibaneh“. He also confirmed that the government is “firmly opposed” to boycotts or sanctions.

Yet the survival of Zionism has always depended on waging and winning wars on no less than two fronts.

The two-state solution is also the bedrock of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative that Israel rejected without the Israeli public even discussing it.

Ever since Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza as a effect of the 1967 Six Day War, these territories posed a long-term demographic challenge to the Jewish – and democratic – character of the state.

Thoughtful people recognize that the increase in anti-Muslim bigotry, discrimination and violence in the United States and Europe is exactly what ISIS seeks because it shrinks the “gray zone” –the number of Muslims living as a minority in other countries who believe they can function normally and without fear of their neighbors and governments. Previously, she served as a senior fellow with the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a foreign policy advisor to then-vice prime minister Shimon Peres and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company. It took the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), guns often drawn, to move about 8,000 Israelis out of the Gaza Strip when that deal was signed in 2005.